 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1806 - 168 pages
...superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valour. Zenobia was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pages
...gertius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia.h She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity' and valour. Ze-Herhe«nlT... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 426 pages
...power, after having disgusted the world by his vices, seemingly unrelieved by a single virtue. In Ap 271, Emessa again emerged from its obscurity as a...descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt ; equalled in beauty her ancestress Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valour. She gave her... | |
 | Michael Joseph M'Cann - 206 pages
...superior genins broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian Kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valour. Zenobia was... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valor. Zenobia was esteemed... | |
 | William Robson - 1871 - 802 pages
...superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valour. Zenobia was... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 496 pages
...superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valour. Zenobia was... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 494 pages
...superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valour. Zenobia was... | |
 | 1878 - 578 pages
...superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valour." With a dark... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor 10 Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valor. NOTES. —... | |
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Zenobia is, perhaps, the only female whose superior genius broke through the servile indolence imposed on her sex by the climate and manners of Asia. She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra,... 
