| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...affilbnce that the 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
...work; and Ammianus Marcellinus in particular asserts, " That horrible balls of fire breaking out from the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks,...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
...work; and Ammianus Marceliinus in particular asserts, " That horrible balls of fire breaking out from "the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks,...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"... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1804 - 408 pages
...work ; and Ammianus Marcellinus in particular asserts, " That horrible balls of fire breaking out from "the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks,...to " time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted M workmen ; and the victorious element con" tinuing in. this manner obstinately and reso" lutely bent,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1804 - 412 pages
...} and Ammianus Marceliinus in particular asserts, " That horrible balls of fire breaking out from " the foundations, with frequent and reiterated " attacks, rendered the place, from time to tt time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted u workmen f and the victorious element con"tinuing... | |
| Henry Kett - Antichrist - 1805 - 448 pages
...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 inacceffible to the fcorched and workmeo, and the viftorious elements continuing " edidl of Adrian;... | |
| Charles Wilkinson - Greece - 1806 - 484 pages
...enthusiasm were unsuccessful. For during the execution of the work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks,...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... | |
| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 466 pages
...province could afford him, horrible balls of *' fire, breaking out near the foundations, with fre" quent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, " from...and " blasted workmen ; and the victorious element con" tinuing, in this manner, obstinately and resolutely " bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance,... | |
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