 | 1844 - 292 pages
...poor. Accompanied by the patriarch Eutychius, he advanced to the pulpit, and exultingly exclaimed : " GOD be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon II have surpassed thee I " Perhaps there was too much of vain-glory and self-sufficiency in the imperial... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...ran alone from the entrance of the halls to the pulpit, where, with outstretched arms, he cried: " God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon ! I have surpassed thee ! " After the distribution of the corn by the magister, Stategius, 300 cwt. of gold were divided among... | |
 | John Price Durbin - Middle East - 1845 - 408 pages
...left the venerable man, entered, and ran to the altar, where, with outstretched arms, he exclaimed, " God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work! Oh ! Solomon, I have surpassed thee !" * The cause of this general uniformity is, that they are all... | |
 | Randal William McGavock - Europe - 1854 - 412 pages
...then ran alone from the entrance of the halls to the pulpit, where with outstretched arms he cried : " God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed' thee /"' After the distribution of the corn by the magister, Stategius, three hundred weight of gold was... | |
 | Randal William McGavock - Europe - 1854 - 418 pages
...alone from the entrance of the halls to the pulpit, where with outstretched arms he cried : " ffod be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed thee /" After the distribution of the corn by the magister, Stategius, three hundred weight of gold was... | |
 | Henry Howe - Adventure and adventurers - 1854 - 740 pages
...the year 538. On that occasion the Emperor was so overjoyed as to run up to the altar and exclaim, " God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Oh ! Solomon, I have surpassed thee !" For nearly a thousand years it remained a place of Christian... | |
 | John Overton Choules - 1854 - 386 pages
...thousand measures of corn to the poor. Entering the church, he said, " God be praised who has thought me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed thee !" This mosque is in the form of a Greek cross : three of its sides are surrounded by vaulted colonnades with... | |
 | John Overton Choules - Europe - 1854 - 383 pages
...thousand measures of corn to the poor. Entering the church, he said, " God be praised who has thought me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed thee ! " This mosque is in the form of a Greek cross ; three of its sides are surrounded by vaulted colonnades with... | |
 | Turkey - 1799 - 348 pages
...emperor entered the structure, and, standing near the pulpit with outstretched arms, he exclaimed, " God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed thee." On the following morning, Christmas-day, the church was opened in great state, and special services... | |
 | Jane Anthony Eames - Europe - 1860 - 400 pages
...suddenly leaving the venerable priest, he ran to the altar, and eagerly embracing it, exclaimed, " God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work ! Oh, Solomon, I have surpassed thee !" All that was venerable in the old religions of the world was... | |
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God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed 
