 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 стор.
...Europeans live here, of the plague, I should be delighted with making it my residence for many months. The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine the Great, in making this city the capital of the East. Nothing in the world can equal in beauty the... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 406 стор.
...speak : Gibbon must have indeed paused to frame GIBBON 01T CONSTANTINOPLE. 2C9 his magic sentences : " The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantinople." He then goes on to decry the weakness which needed the fabrication of a miracle necessary... | |
 | Frederick Walpole (hon.) - 1851 - 438 стор.
...passer as myself to dare to speak : Gibbon must have indeed paused to frame his magic sentences: " The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantinople." He then goes on to decry the weakness which needed the fabrication of a miracle necessary... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 стор.
...into the port of Constantinople, which, for many ages, attracted the commerce of the ancient world.24 The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Con- Foundation stantine. But as some decent mixture of prodigy and ofthecityfable has, in every age,... | |
 | 1865 - 648 стор.
...traveler can visit it without confirming, by his own observation, the truthfulness of the historian : " The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine. Standing upon two continents, approached by two gateways, the Bosphorus and the Hellespont, the prince... | |
 | 1865 - 648 стор.
...traveler can visit it without confirming, by his own observation, the truthfulness of the historian : " The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth,...single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantino. Standing upon two continents, approached by two gateways, the Bosphorus and the Hellespont,... | |
 | 1872 - 450 стор.
...manufactured by the skill of Europe, or Asia ; the corn of Egypt ; and the gems and spices of the furthest India, — were brought by the varying winds into...single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantinople." Again, chap, liii., "A Jewish traveller, Benjamin of Tudela, who visited the East... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1879 - 220 стор.
...or Asia, the corn of Egypt, the gems and spices of the furthest India, were brought by the varving winds into the port of Constantinople, which for many...to justify the choice of Constantine. But as some mixture of prodigy and fable has in every age been supposed to reflect a becoming majesty on the origin... | |
 | 1880 - 636 стор.
...against a naval enemy and open them to the fleets of commerce. This prospect of beauty, of safety, ajid of wealth, united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantino. Whatever could adorn the dignity of a great capital, or contribute to the benefit or pleasure... | |
 | 1882 - 376 стор.
...manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia; the corn of Egypt and the gems and spices of the furthest India, — were brought by the varying winds into...sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine." We need only add that the recent improvements in the science of military defence, the inventions of... | |
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The prospect of beauty, of safety, and of wealth, united in a single spot, was sufficient to justify the choice of Constantine. 
