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,... Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs - Page 150by William Eusebius Andrews - 1824Full view - About this book
| Elijah Parish - Bible - 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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 pages
...him, horrible halls of tire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...were, to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought beat to give over the enterprize. In the mean time, though Julian was still at Antioch when ihr happened,... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...him, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely beot, as it were, to drive them to a distance^ Alypius thought best to give over the enterprize. In*... | |
| William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the plaee, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and...resolutely bent as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned."* This " unexceptionable testimony," as Gibbon candidly admits it to... | |
| William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 492 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious elc260 History of the Christian Church. [cH. in. ment continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...horrible balls of fire breaking out near '•i the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, " rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible " to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the vic" torious element continuing in this manner obstinately " and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive... | |
| George Wilkins - Jerusalem - 1816 - 234 pages
..." terrible balls of fire bursting out near the founda" tions, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered " the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the " scorched and blasted workmen ; and in this manner " the fire obstinately and resolutely repelling them, " the work ceased."2 " This 1... | |
| William Jones - Albigenses - 1819 - 626 pages
...work, horrible halls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, 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 ahandoned."* This "unexceptionable testimony," as Gibbon candidly admits it to... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 344 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, 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."-)Thus were the pride and impious temerity of tiiis powerful monarch... | |
| Evangelistic work - 1821 - 270 pages
...time to time inaeeessible to the seorehed. and blasted workmen ; and the vietorious element eontinuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distanee ; ALYPIUS thought best to give over the enterprise."* Thus He, whose eounsel SHALL stand,... | |
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