 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,...  A Chronological Abridgment of the History of Great-Britain, from the First ... - Seite 32von Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - 1812Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Robert A. Boyle - 1863 - 698 Seiten
...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 continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to... | |
 | Dawson Massy - 1863 - 522 Seiten
...horrible balls of fire, breaking out near the foundation, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element 361-363.] JULIAN'S EXPEDITION TO PERSIA. 329 continuing in this manner... | |
 | 1864 - 610 Seiten
...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 continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were,... | |
 | Alban Butler - 1866 - 320 Seiten
...says Ammianus, " such horrible balls of fire out of the earth near the foundations,(6) which rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen. And the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent as it were to... | |
 | Ebenezer Davies - 1868 - 234 Seiten
...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 continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were,... | |
 | 1871 - 678 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | François Samuel R. Louis Gaussen - 1873 - 486 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Augustine David Crake - 1873 - 584 Seiten
...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 continuing in this manner, obstinately bent, as it were, to drive them to... | |
 | Layman, Thomas M. Stevenson - 1874 - 120 Seiten
...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 continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were,... | |
 | a. carrington - 1876 - 852 Seiten
...horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation«, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner absolutely and resolutely bent, as it wert-,... | |
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