 ... 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, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen; and, the victorious element...  Ancient history - Página 313por John Robinson - 1831 - 601 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alban Butler - 1798 - 348 páginas
...scorched and blasted " workmen. And the victorious element continuing " in this manner obstinately and 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,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 410 páginas
...the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent; 'a"s it were, to drive them to...distance, the undertaking was entirely abandoned." Julian having settled the internal policy of the empire, and being possessed of the full powers both of body... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 páginas
...scorched 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, the undertaking wa» " abandoned." Such authority should satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous, mind.... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 páginas
...to time, inaccessible to the scorched workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned. It would be endless, my dear sister, to enumerate the various revolutions which Jerusalem... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 472 páginas
...scorched 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, Alypius " thought best to give over the enterprise *." Thus did the vigilance of Providence not only... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 466 páginas
...scorched 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, Alypius " thought best to give over the enterprizc *." Thus did the vigilance of Providence not only... | |
 | George Holford - 1812 - 148 páginas
...the scorched and blasted workmen; and the victorious element continuing, in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Speaking of this event, even Gibbon, who is notorious for his scepticism. acknowledges,... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 páginas
...in the thirty-first year of his age after a reign of three years, AD 3fi3. Julian was the slave of the most bigoted superstition, believing in omens...fancying himself favoured with an actual intercourse with the gods and goddesses. 4. Jovian, a captain of the domestic guards, was declared emperor by the... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 páginas
...Persians, in the thirty-first year of his age after a reign of three years, AD 363. Julian was the slave of the most bigoted superstition, believing in omens...fancying himself favoured with an actual intercourse with the gods and goddesses. 4. Jovian, a captain of the domestic guards, was declared emperor by the... | |
 | Elijah Parish - 1813 - 538 páginas
...scorched and blasted workman; and the victorious element continuing, in this same manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought best to give over the enterprise." The next testimony is that of Gregory Nazianzen,... | |
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