Whilst Alypius, assisted by the governor of the province, urged, with vigour and diligence, the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time,... The Lives of the Primitive Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints ... - Page 199by Alban Butler - 1798Full view - About this book
| 1828
...says a heathen historian, * horrible balls of firebreaking out, with frequent and repeated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this way obstinately bent to drive them to a distance; the undertaking was abandoned.' Thus are the attempt*... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 410 pages
...That horrible balls of fire breaking out from the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...resolutely bent; 'a"s it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was entirely abandoned." Julian having settled the internal policy of the empire, and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 pages
...horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, .' with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, " from time to time, inaccessible...and " blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continu" ing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it " were, to drive them to a distance,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 410 pages
...horrible balls of fire breaking out from "the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks, rendered the place, from time to " time, inaccessible...and blasted " workmen ; and the victorious element con" tinuing in this manner obstinately and reso" lutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a dis"... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 408 pages
...horrible balls of fire breaking out from "the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks, rendered the place, from time to " time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted M workmen ; and the victorious element con" tinuing in. this manner obstinately and reso" lutely bent,... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 472 pages
...horrible balls of " fire, breaking out near the foundations, with fre" quent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, " from time to time, inaccessible...and " blasted workmen ; and the victorious element con". tinuing, in this manner, obstinately and resolutely " bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance,... | |
| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 466 pages
...horrible balls of *' fire, breaking out near the foundations, with fre" quent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, " from time to time, inaccessible...and " blasted workmen ; and the victorious element con" tinuing, in this manner, obstinately and resolutely " bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance,... | |
| George Holford - 1812 - 148 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundation, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Speaking of this event, even Gibbon, who is notorious for his scepticism.... | |
| Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812 - 528 pages
...horrible balls of fire breaking out from the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, tendered the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen. He died in the same year, 31 years old, from a wound he received in his expedition against Persia,... | |
| Elijah Parish - 1813 - 558 pages
...him, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workman; and the victorious element continuing, in this same manner, obstinately and resolutely bent,... | |
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