 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 Critical and Historical Review of Fox's Book of Martyrs, Shewing the ... - Page 154by William Eusebius Andrews - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1848 - 630 pages
...him, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...were, to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought best to give over the enterprize. " St. Cyril was again driven into banishment under the Arian Emperor... | |
 | John Warner Barber - 1848 - 482 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." This remarkable event is fully attested by various historians of that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1850 - 624 pages
...work, horrible bails of fire breaking out near the foundations, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely I ent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking vas abandoned."* Such authority should... | |
 | Christianity and other religions - 1850 - 208 pages
...foundation was commenced, " horrible balls of fire, breaking out with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible...victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately bent, as it were, to repel their attempts, the enterprize was abaudoned." Such is the testimony of... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Church history - 1851 - 484 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." This remarkable event is fully attested by various historians of that... | |
 | John Warner Barber - Church history - 1851 - 502 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." This remarkable event is fully attested by various historians of that... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1852 - 470 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious ele ment continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1852 - 448 pages
...work, horrible balls of fire breaking out near the foundation, with frequent and reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible...scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious ele ment continuing in this manner obstinately and resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a... | |
 | Samuel Byron Brittan, B. W. Richmond - Espiritualisme - 1853 - 404 pages
...work, 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 resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." The profound... | |
 | Thomas Robert Jolliffe - 1854 - 358 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, observes the author of the " Decline and Fall of... | |
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