 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
 | Unitarianism - 1871 - 678 pages
...historian Ammianus Marcellinus, " breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen," and the undertaking was abandoned. Gibbon, after mentioning the writers who give the account, says, " Such... | |
 | John Robinson - 1873 - 892 pages
...foundations, with frequent nnd reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to th>? scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious...resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was entirely abandoned." Julian, as a pagan, was a slave to the most bigoted superstition,... | |
 | Augustine David Crake - Church history - 1873 - 584 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...victorious element continuing in this manner, obstinately bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Such authority, Gibbon... | |
 | François Samuel R. Louis Gaussen - 1873 - 486 pages
...horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and repeated attacks, made the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen, and the victorious element continued in this manner absolutely and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, so... | |
 | Layman, Thomas M. Stevenson - Revelation - 1874 - 120 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,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - World history - 1876 - 514 pages
...breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from timo to time. inaccessible to the scorched and blasted...resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned.1 " — Gibbons Decline, etc. 10. Defeat of Attila (p. 126, ", 51). —... | |
 | a. carrington - 1876 - 852 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation«, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...and the victorious element continuing in this manner absolutely and resolutely bent, as it wert-, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned."... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1881 - 552 pages
...work, 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 workmen : and the XXlll. I. victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were,... | |
 | Thomas Spalding - Bible - 1877 - 512 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 best to give over the enterprise." — Warlurtori's Works, vol. viii. Book I. Whilst these events were... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1877 - 558 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, with frequeat 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.' " — Gibbon's Decline, etc. 10. Defeat or Attila (p. 126, T 51).—... | |
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