 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,...  An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events: Which ... - Σελίδα 85των John Warner Barber - 1834 - 408 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alban Butler - 1798 - 348 σελίδες
...horrible balls of fire out of the earth near the " foundations, (23) which rendered the place, from " time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted...resolutely bent as it * were to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought " proper to give over the enterprise." (V) This is also recorded by the Christian authors,... | |
 | 1828
...horrible balls of firebreaking out, with frequent and repeated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted 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 σελίδες
...breaking out from the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted...were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was entirely abandoned." Julian having settled the internal policy of the empire, and being possessed of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 σελίδες
...out near the foundations, .' with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, " from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched 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 σελίδες
...breaking out from "the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks, rendered the place, from time to " time, inaccessible to the scorched 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"... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 σελίδες
...to time, inaccessible to the scorched workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned. It would be endless, my dear sister, to enumerate the various revolutions which Jerusalem has undergone.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 466 σελίδες
...scorched and blasted workand the victorious element continuing manner obstinately and resolutely bent, it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Such authority satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous, mind. Yet a philosopher may still... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 466 σελίδες
...breaking out near the foundations, with fre" quent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, " from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched 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 σελίδες
...breaking out near the foundations, with fre" quent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, " from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched 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 σελίδες
...breaking out near the foundation, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted...them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Speaking of this event, even Gibbon, who is notorious for his scepticism. acknowledges, that " an earthquake,... | |
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