 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...smiled at the menace, and drawing his scymetar, samsamah, cut asunder the feeble arras of the Greeks, without turning the edge, or endangering the temper...brevity : ' In the name of the most merciful God, HaroUn Alrashid, commander of the faidiful, to Nicephorus, the Roman Dog. I have read thy letter, O thou son... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1788 - 368 pages
...fcymetar, famfamah) a weapon of hiftoric or fabulous renown, he cut afunder the feeble arms of the Greeks, without turning the edge, or endangering the temper, of his blade. He then dictated an epiftle of tremendous brevity : " In " the name of the moft merciful God, Harun " al Ramid, commander... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 488 pages
...weapon of historic or fabulous renown, he cut asunder the feeble arms of the Greeks, without turuing the edge, or endangering the temper, of his blade....tremendous brevity: " In the name of the most merciful God, Harun al " Rashid, commander of the faithful, to Nicephorus, the " Roman dog. I have read thy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 406 pages
...historic or fabulous renown, he cut asunder the feeble arms of the Greeks, without turning the edges or endangering the temper;, of his blade. He then...tremendous brevity; " In the name of the most merciful God, Harun " al Rashid, commander of the faithful, to " Nicephorus, the Roman dog. I have read thy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...scimitar, samsamah, a weapon of historic or fabulous renown, he cut asunder the feeble arms of the Greeks, without turning the edge, or endangering the temper...tremendous brevity : "In the name " of the most merciful God. Harun Al Rashid, to " Nicephorus, the Roman dog. I have read thy " letter, O thou son of an unbelieving... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1831 - 522 pages
...saimnmah, a weapon of historic or fabulous renown, be cut asunder the feeble arms of the Greeks, witbout turning the edge, or endangering the temper, of his...tremendous brevity : " In the name of the most merciful God, Harun al Rasbid, commander of the faithful, to Nicepborus, the Roman dog. 1 bave read thy letter,... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1833 - 476 pages
...astonished Greeks, without seeming to exert the strength of his arm or turning the edge of his well-tempered blade. He then dictated an epistle of tremendous brevity...God! Haroun al Raschid, Commander of the Faithful, to Nicephorus the Roman dog. I have read thy letter, thou son of an unbelieving mother. Thou shalt not... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - Arabian Peninsula - 1834 - 436 pages
...astonished Greeks, without seeming to exert the strength of his arm or turning the edge of his well-tempered blade. He then dictated an epistle of tremendous brevity...! Haroun al Raschid, Commander of the Faithful, to Nicephorus the Roman dog, I have read thy letter, thou son of an unbelieving mother. Thou shalt not... | |
 | 1836 - 422 pages
...turning the edge of his blade ; then dictated what has been well termed " an epistle of liemendous brevity:" "In the name of the most merciful God, Haroun -al Raschid, commander of the faithful, to Nicephorus, the Roman Dog. I have read thy letter, O thou son of an unbelieving mother. Thou shalt... | |
 | Samuel Spring, Gardiner Spring - Arabian Peninsula - 1836 - 254 pages
...distinguished historian,) which was written upon the outside of the missive of the Roman emperor. " In the name of the most merciful God, Haroun al Raschid, Commander of the Faithful, to Nicephorus, Roman dog. I have read thy letter, oh ! thou son of a misbelieving mother ! Thou shalt... | |
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In the name of the most merciful God, Harun al Rashid, commander of the faithful, to Nicephorus, the Roman dog. I have read thy letter, O thou son of an unbelieving mother. Thou shalt not hear, thou shalt behold my reply. 
