 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1800 - 342 pages
...the enemy. They warded off all the darts difcbarged from the baliftas againft them by the affiftance of turning wheels, which either broke them to pieces,...them another way. They deadened the violence of the ftones that were hurled at them, by fetting up a kind of fails and curtains made of a foft fubftance,,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1805 - 388 pages
...themselves, and repulse the enemy. They warded off all the darts discharged from the balistas against them, by the assistance of turning wheels, which .either...the stones that were hurled at them, by setting up a kirn! of sails arid curtains made of a soft substance, which easily ijavc way. To annoy the ships which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1806 - 444 pages
...balistas against them , by the asMtaace of turning-wheels , which either breke then* to pieces , or caried them another way. They deadened the violence of the stones that were hurled at them , by setting up sails and curtains, matle of a soft substance , which easily gave way. To annoy the ships which advanced... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1808 - 596 pages
...themselves, and repulse the enemy. They warded off all the darts discharged from the balistas against them, by the assistance of turning wheels, which either...easily gave way. To annoy the ships which advanced a£ anst their walls, they fixed grappling irons and scythes to joists or beams ; then straining their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...warded off the darts discharged from the balistas against them, by the assistance of turning-wheels, which either broke them to pieces, or carried them...the stones that were hurled at them, by setting up sails and curtains made of a soft substance, which easily gave way. To annoy the ships which advanced... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 420 pages
...themselves and repulse the enemy. They warded off all the darts discharged from the balistas against them by the assistance of turning wheels, which either...way. To annoy the ships, which advanced against their walls, they fixed grapplingirons and scythes to joisis or beams, then, straining their «;iSect. VI.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1820 - 490 pages
...warded off the darts discharged from the balls'las against them, by the assistance of turning-wheels, which either broke them to pieces, or carried them...the stones that were hurled at them, by setting up sails and curtains, made of a soft substance, which easily gave way. 6. To annoy the ships which advanced... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 304 pages
...warded off all the darts discharged from the bulistas against them, by the assistance of turning-wheels, which either broke them to pieces, or carried them...They deadened the violence of the stones that were Uurkid at them, by setting up a kind of sails and curtains, made of a soft substance, which easily... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1822 - 498 pages
...period, were really astonishing. They warded off the darts discharged from the balls' tax against them, by the assistance of turning wheels, which either broke them to pieces, or carried them another Tvay. They deadened the violence of the stones that were burled at them, by setting up sails and curtains... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1825 - 572 pages
...themselves, and repulse the enemy. They warded off all the darts discharged from the balistas against them by the assistance of turning wheels, which either...the stones that were hurled at them, by setting up sails and curtains, made of a soft substance, which easily gave way. To annoy the ships, which advanced... | |
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The besieged, taught and animated by imminent danger, and the extreme necessity to which they were reduced, invented, daily, new arts to defend themselves, and repulse the enemy. They warded off all the darts discharged from the balistas against them,... 
