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" 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 150
by William Eusebius Andrews - 1824
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The English reading book, in prose

William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...that horrible balls of fire, breaking out from the foundations with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time, inaccessible...continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, ns it were, 'to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was relinquished. Eight months after the...
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Letters from Palestine: Description of a Tour Through Galilee and Judea. To ...

Thomas R. Joliffe - Egypt - 1822 - 534 pages
...horrible " balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent " and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to " time, inaccessible...and the victorious element continuing in this manner obsti" nately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a " distance, the undertaking was abandoned."...
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The Antiquities of Free-masonry: Comprising Illustration of the Five Grand ...

George Oliver - Freemasonry - 1823 - 406 pages
...him ; horrible balls of fire 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 it best to give over the enterprize."* The particular stone in the foundation from which these terrible...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 11

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...him, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it дтеге, to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought best to give over the enterprise." The next...
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A Critical and Historical Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs, Shewing ..., Volume 1

William Eusebius Andrews - Christian martyrs - 1824 - 422 pages
...Pagan writer, and a zealous defender of Julian, relates these wonders in the following words : " Aad when Alypius the " next day earnestly pressed on the...fact, and mention other extraordinary circumstances and appearances attending this triumphant victory of Christianism over its implacable enemies. As infidelity...
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 3

Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1825 - 512 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." Such authority should satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous,...
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An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...that " horrible balls of fire, breaking out near die foundation with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen : and, that the victorious element continuing in tliis manner obstinately bent, as it were, to repel their...
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An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...that " horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundation with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen : and, that the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately bent, as it were, to repel their...
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Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr ..., Volume 2

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...horrible balls of fire break- XVm " ing 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 under" taking was abandoned." Such authority should satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous,...
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Historical Religious Events

John Warner Barber - Church history - 1828 - 188 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." This remarkable event is fully attested by various historians of that...
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