 Instead of the little passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the steady administration of Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was expedient to pardon, she could calm her resentment; if it was necessary to punish,...  Woman and her master - Page 333by lady Sydney Morgan - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 530 pages
...perplex a female reign, the steady administration of Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was expedient to pardon, she could calm...she could impose silence on the voice of pity. Her D 2 strict * Odenathus and Zenobia often ?ent him, from the spoils of the enemy, presents of gems and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...: if it was necessary to punish, she could impose silence on the voice of pity. Her strict O3conomy was accused of avarice ; yet on every proper occasion she appeared magnificent and libera1. The neighbouring states of Arabia, Armenia, and Persia, dreaded her enmity, and solicited... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 510 pages
...the steady administration of Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was not expedient to pardon, she could calm her resentment;...punish, she could impose silence on the voice of pity. 1 Odenathus and Zenobia often sent him, from thr spoils of the enemy, presents of gum and toys, which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...perplex a female reign, the steady administration of Zenobia wae guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was expedient to pardon, she could calm...on every proper occasion she appeared magnificent attd liberal. The neighbouring states of Arabia, Armenia, and Persia, dreaded her enmity, and solicited... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was expedient to pardon, she could culm her resentment : if it was necessary to punish, she...avarice ; yet on every proper occasion she appeared magnificient and liberal. The neighbouring states of Arabia, Armenia, and Persia, dreaded her enmity,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...soon strengthened herself so much that she resolved to submit neither to the Roman nor Persian power. Arabia, Armenia, and Persia, dreaded her enmity and...dominions of Odenatus, which extended from the Euphrates to the frontiers of Bithynia, she added the inheritance of her ancestors, the populous and fertile... | |
 | American Lady - Women - 1833 - 248 pages
...perplex a female reign, the steady administration of Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If it was expedient to pardon, she could calm...accused of avarice ; yet on every proper occasion she was magnificent and liberal.' In addition to all this she is represented as, having been ' the loveliest... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 288 pages
...passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the soundest maxims of steadiness prevailed ; if it was expedient to pardon, she could calm her...punish, she could impose silence on the voice of pity. M. de Segur was astonished at the alacrity and facility with which she passed from convivial scenes... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 284 pages
...passions which so frequently perplex a female reign, the soundest maxims of steadiness prevailed ; if it was expedient to pardon, she could calm her...punish, she could impose silence on the voice of pity. M. de Segur was astonished at the alacrity and facility with which she passed from convivial scenes—the... | |
 | Universalism - 1865 - 838 pages
...perplex a female reign, the steady administration of Zenobia was guided by the most judicious maxims of policy. If . it was expedient to pardon, she could...occasion, she appeared magnificent and liberal. The neighboring States of Arabia, Armenia, and Persia dreaded her enmity, and solicited her alliance."*... | |
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