 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 Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints: Compiled from ... - Page 177by Alban Butler - 1845Full view - About this book
 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...that horrible balls of fire, breaking out from the foundations with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time, inaccessible...continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, ns it were, 'to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was relinquished. Eight months after the... | |
 | Thomas R. Joliffe - Egypt - 1822 - 534 pages
...horrible " balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent " and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to " time, inaccessible...and the victorious element continuing in this manner obsti" nately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a " distance, the undertaking was abandoned."... | |
 | George Oliver - Freemasonry - 1823 - 406 pages
...him ; horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought it best to give over the enterprize."* The particular stone in the foundation from which these... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 862 pages
...him, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...this manner, obstinately and resolutely bent, as it дтеге, to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought best to give over the enterprise." The next... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1824 - 420 pages
...province, there issued (he says) such horrible balls "of fire out of the earth, near the foundations, which rendered the " place, from time to time, inaccessible...as it were, to drive them to a distance, " Alypius thought proper to give over the enterprize." Several Christian authors likewise record the fact, and... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - Christian martyrs - 1824 - 422 pages
...province, there issued (he says) such horrible balls " of fire out of the earth, near the foundations, which rendered the " place, from time to time, inaccessible...as it were, to drive them to a distance, " Alypius thought proper to give over the enterprize." Several Christian authors likewise record the fact, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1825 - 512 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Such authority should satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous,... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...that " horrible balls of fire, breaking out near die foundation with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen : and, that the victorious element continuing in tliis manner obstinately bent, as it were, to repel their... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...that " 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, that the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately bent, as it were, to repel their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...horrible balls of fire break- XVm " ing out near the foundations, with frequent and '* reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time " to time, inaccessible...resolutely bent, as " it were, to drive them to a distance, the under" taking was abandoned." Such authority should satisfy a believing, and must astonish an incredulous,... | |
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