 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,...  The Destruction of Jerusalem: An Absolute and Irresistible Proof of the ... - Page 106by George Holford - 1812 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...governor of the province could afford him, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inacceiuble to the fcorched and blafted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing, in this manner,... | |
 | Alban Butler - Saints - 1798 - 348 pages
...issued, says Ammianus, " such horrible balls of fire out of the earth near the " foundations, (23) which rendered the place, from " time to time, inaccessible...resolutely bent as it * were to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought " proper to give over the enterprise." (V) This is also recorded by the Christian authors,... | |
 | 1828
...diligence,' says a heathen historian, * horrible balls of firebreaking 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.' Thus are the attempt*... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 410 pages
...Marcellinus in particular asserts, " That horrible balls of fire breaking out from the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the...were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was entirely abandoned." Julian having settled the internal policy of the empire, and being possessed of... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1804 - 410 pages
...Marceliinus in particular asserts, " That horrible balls of fire breaking out from "the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks, rendered the...and blasted " workmen ; and the victorious element con" tinuing in this manner obstinately and reso" lutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a dis"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...diligence, the execution of the work, " horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, .' with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the...and " blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continu" ing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it " were, to drive them to a distance,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1804 - 408 pages
...Marcellinus in particular asserts, " That horrible balls of fire breaking out from "the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks, rendered the...to " time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted M workmen ; and the victorious element con" tinuing in. this manner obstinately and reso" lutely bent,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Antichrist - 1805 - 448 pages
...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 inacceffible to the fcorched and workmeo, and the viftorious elements continuing " edidl of Adrian;... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - Greece - 1806 - 484 pages
...unsuccessful. For during 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, inaccessible to the scorched workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner resolutely bent, as it were, to drive... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 466 pages
...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, le to the scorched and blasted workand the victorious element continuing manner obstinately and resolutely... | |
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