 | James Munson Olmstead - 1853 - 378 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 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... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 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, should secretly return to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 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 43 The choice of fabulous circumstances is of small importance; yet... | |
 | John Cumming - Bible - 1854 - 564 pages
...where they were immured by the tyrant. ' They immediately fell into a deep slumber,' says Gibbon, ' which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring...powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven years. This popular tale, which Mohammed might have learned when he drove his camels to... | |
 | 1856 - 552 pages
...entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of stones. 28 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 pages
...entrance 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. At the end of that time the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1859 - 526 pages
...bv the tyrant, who cave orders that the entrance should be firmly •ecurcd with a pita of stones. They immediately fell into a deep «lumber, which was miraculously prolonged without in-jnrm _' the powers of life, during a period of one hundred and eighty-seven vears. At the end ofthat... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1865 - 536 pages
...entrance 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. At the end of that time the slaves of Adolius, to whom' the inheritance of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1872 - 714 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... | |
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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... 
