This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1747 Excerpt: ...said to him, " If while thou art intent upon thy art "of inspection, any body should interrupt thee, I do "not doubt but thou wouldst think him impertinent "and troublesome; which Demophoon agreeing to, "Canst thou then imagine, reply'd the king, that "when my thoughts are taken up with matters of the "greatest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1747 Excerpt: ...said to him, " If while thou art intent upon thy art "of inspection, any body should interrupt thee, I do "not doubt but thou wouldst think him impertinent "and troublesome; which Demophoon agreeing to, "Canst thou then imagine, reply'd the king, that "when my thoughts are taken up with matters of the "greatest importance, and not with the intrails of "beasts, there can be any thing more unseasonable "than the interruption of a superstitious soothsayer?" This said, he without any sarther delay commanded the ladders to be apply'd to the wall; and while the rest were hesitating on the account of the danger, he was the sirst that scal'd the wall, whose coping was very narrow and without battlements, as there is commonly at the top, but was carry'd on with one continu'd head, which defended its passage. Thus the king might be said, rather to cleave to than stand upon the narrow margin thereof, receiving in his buckler the darts with which he was on all sides warmly ply'd at a distance from the towers, and the soldiers were hinder'd from climbing up by the clouds of arrows that were shot at them from above. However at last shame. shame overcame the greatness of the danger, for they saw that by their delay the king would sall into the hands of the e lemies; fa Jt their over-eagerness prov'd a great hindrance to them, for as they all strove who should get up soonest, they so loaded the ladders that they broke under them, and disappointed the king of the only hope he had; by this means standing in the sight of so numerous an army, he might be said to be as destitute as if he had been in a desart. CHAP. V. BY this time his left arm (with which he held his buckler) was tir'd with parrying the strokes that were made at...
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