 The queen (he spoke of Irene) considered you as a rook and herself as a pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from the Barbarians. Restore therefore the fruits of your injustice, or abide...  The History of Arabia: Ancient and Modern ... - Page 21by Andrew Crichton - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...an epistle to Alrashid refusing this badge of disgrace, and terminating with the following menace: 'Restore therefore the fruits of your injustice, or...abide the determination of the sword.' "At these words the ambassadors cast a bundle of swords before the foot of the throne. The caliph smiled at the menace,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...considered you as a rook and herself as a " pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tri" bute, the double of which she ought to have exacted from...the Barbarians. Restore therefore the fruits of your in" justice, or abide the determination of the sword." At these words the ambassadors cast a bundle... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 406 pages
...queen (he spoke of Irene) considered you as a " rook and herself as a pawn. That pusillani" mous female submitted to pay a tribute, the " double of which...the determination of " the sword." At these words the ambassadors cast a bundle of swords before the foot of the throne. The caliph smiled at the menace,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 488 pages
...(he spoke of Irene) " considered you as a rook and herself as a pawn. That '• pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the " double of which..." Barbarians. Restore therefore the fruits of your in" justice, or abide the determination of the sword.'7 At these words the ambassadors cast a bundle... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 404 pages
...of " Irene) considered you as a rook and herself " as a pawn. That pusillanimous female sub" mitted to pay a tribute, the double of which " she ought to have exacted from the barba" rians. Restore therefore the fruits of your " injustice, or nhifle the determination of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...Irene,) considered you as a rook, and herself CHAP " as a pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted xL " to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to " have exacted from the Barbarians. Restore, there" fore, the fruits of your injustice, or abide the de" termination of the sword." At these words... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1830 - 442 pages
...queen," he spoke of Irene, " considered you as a rook and herself a pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, the double of which she ought to have exicted from the barbarians. Restore therefore the fruits of your injustice, or abide the determination... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1833 - 476 pages
...queen," said he (borrowing his allusion from the game of chess), " considered you as a rook, and herself a pawn. That pusillanimous woman submitted to pay...smiled at the threat, and drawing his famous scimitar (Samsamati), a weapon of historic or fabulous renown, he cut them asunder one by one, like so many... | |
 | William Sullivan - Asia - 1838 - 640 pages
...herself as a pawn. That pusillanimous female consented to pay a tribute, the double of which she should have exacted from the barbarians. Restore, therefore,...injustice, or abide the determination of the sword." The ambassadors, who brought the letter, cast a bundle of swords at the foot of the throne. Haroun... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1840 - 390 pages
..." (he spoke of Irene) considered you as a rook, and herself as a " pawn. That pusillanimous female submitted to pay a tribute, " the double of which she ought to have exacted from the barba" rians. Restore therefore the fruits of your injustice, or abide the " determination of the sword."... | |
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