 | Alban Butler - 1798 - 348 pages
...which rendered the place, from " time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted " workmen. And the victorious element continuing " in this manner...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 pages
...attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner...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... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 pages
...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 has undergone.... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 472 pages
...time, inaccessible to the 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 pages
...time, inaccessible to the 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 pages
...reiterated attacks, rendered the place, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen; and the victorious element continuing, in this manner,...them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned." Speaking of this event, even Gibbon, who is notorious for his scepticism. acknowledges, that " an earthquake,... | |
 | Elijah Parish - 1813 - 558 pages
...inaccessible to the 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 548 pages
...reiterated attacks, rendered the place from time to time inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner,...resolutely bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, Alypius thought beat to give over the enterprize. In the mean time, though Julian was still at Antioch... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 500 pages
...attacks, rendered the plaee, from time to time, inaccessible to the scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious element continuing in this manner,...them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned."* This " unexceptionable testimony," as Gibbon candidly admits it to be, is also supported by Ambrose,... | |
 | William Jones - 1816 - 492 pages
...scorched and blasted workmen ; and the victorious elc260 History of the Christian Church. [cH. in. ment continuing in this manner, obstinately and resolutely...them to a distance, the undertaking was abandoned."* This " unexceptionable testimony," as Gibbon candidly admits it to be, is also supported by Ambrose,... | |
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... 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 drive them to a distance,... 
