 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,...  A Critical and Historical Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs, Shewing the ... - Страница 154написао/ла William Eusebius Andrews - 1824Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Alban Butler - 1798 - 348 страница
...issued, says Ammianus, " such horrible balls of fire out of the earth near the " foundations, (23) which rendered the place, from " time to time, inaccessible...distance, Alypius thought " proper to give over the enterprise." (V) This is also recorded by the Christian authors, who, besides the earthquake and fiery... | |
 | 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 страница
...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 страница
...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 страница
...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 страница
...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 (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 466 страница
...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 - 1811 - 472 страница
...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 страница
...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 страница
...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,... | |
| |
