 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 500 pages
...entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones. They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring the powers of life, during a period of 187 years. At the end of that time the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain had... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...where they were immured by the tyrant. " They immediately fell into a deep slumber/' says Gibbon, " which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring the powers of life, during a period of 1 ^7 years. At the end ofthat time the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain had... | |
 | Fashion - 1843 - 568 pages
...entrance should he .'irmly secured with a pile of huge (tones. They immediately fell into a deep slumher, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring...powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. At the end of that time, the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1840 - 506 pages
...entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones. They imn.^diately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring the powers of life, during a period of 187 years. At the end of that time the slaves of Arfolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...should be firmly secured by a pile of huge stones. The youths immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring...powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. At the end of that time, the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the... | |
 | 1845 - 304 pages
...ordered should be firmly secured with a pile of stones. They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring...powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. After this slumber, as they thought, of a few hours, they were pressed by the calls... | |
 | Carl Loewe - Oratorios - 1845 - 20 pages
...deep slumber, which, according to the legend, doubtless originating in the superstitions of the day, was miraculously prolonged, without injuring the powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. During this period most wonderful changes had been effected. Paganism was no longer... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1846 - 530 pages
...entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of stones. They immediately fell into t deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged without injuring...powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. At the end of that time the slaves of A 1 ius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...should be firmly secured by a pile of huge stones. The youths immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring...powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. and resolved that Jamblichus,* one of their number, shook secretly return to the... | |
 | James Munson Olmstead - Bible and geology - 1853 - 428 pages
...entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones. They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring...powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. At the end of that time the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain... | |
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... years. At the end of that time, the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain had descended, removed the stones, to supply materials for some rustic edifice: the light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the Seven Sleepers were... 
