 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
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pages
...says a heathen historian, ' horrible balls of fire breaking out, with frequent and repeated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...workmen; and the victorious element continuing in this way obstinately bent to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.' G < Thus are the... | |
 | pope Pius IV - 1829 - 322 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... | |
 | William Jones - 1831 - 570 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out from 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 statement of the case is further corroborated by Ambrose, bishop... | |
 | John Robinson - History, Ancient - 1831 - 960 pages
...horrible balls " of fire breaking out from the foundations, with frequent and " reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, " inaccessible..." the victorious element continuing in this manner obsti" nately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a " distance, the undertaking was entirely... | |
 | Jews - 1832 - 592 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." Had Julian succeeded in this vain and wicked attempt, he would not... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation, 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... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation, 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... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation, 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... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Christianity - 1834 - 454 pages
...breaking out near the foundations with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from tim« to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen...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... | |
 | Robert Haldane - Bible - 1834 - 534 pages
...work, 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 berit, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.' " — Gibbon, Vol.... | |
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