 | 1897 - 986 pages
...fire lodged in the hollow of a reed, and directed by the hand of a child, could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. All this reads almost like a prophecy of the electric fluid in its application to engines of war and... | |
 | 1874 - 834 pages
...varying degrees of physical strength. If army met army, and both had command of this agency (Vril), it could be but to the annihilation of each. The age...gone ; but with the cessation of war other effects upon the social state soon .became apparent. Man was so completely nt the mercy of man, each whom he... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 116 pages
...The fire lodged in the hollow of a rod directed by the hand of a child could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to...rear of an embattled host. If army met army, and both hud command of this agency, it could be but to the annihilntion of each. The age of war was therefore... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...The fire lodged in the hollow of a rod directed by the hand of a child could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to...embattled host. If army met army, and both had command of the agency, it could be but to the annihilation of each. The age of war was therefore gone." In "the... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. If army met army, and both had command of the agency, it could be but to the annihilation of each. The age of war was therefore gone." In "the great public museum .... are hoarded, as curious specimens of the ignorant and blundering experiments... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1890 - 816 pages
...The fire lodged in the hollow of a rod directed by the hand of a child could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to...an embattled host. If army met army, and both had the command of this agency, it could be but to the anniiMution of each other. Tlio age of war was therefore... | |
 | 1897 - 916 pages
...fire lodged in the hollow of a reed, aud directed by the hand of a child, could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. All this reads almost like a prophecy of the electric fluid in its application to engines of war and... | |
 | 1897 - 934 pages
...fire lodged in the hollow of a reed, and directed by the hand of a child, could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. All this reads almost like a prophecy of the electric fluid in its application to engines of war and... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - 1898 - 354 pages
...fire lodged in the hollow of a reed, and directed by the hand of a child, could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. All this reads almost like a prophecy of the electric fluid in its application to engines of war and... | |
 | Edward Bulwer-Lytton - 1967 - 154 pages
...The fire lodged in the hollow of a rod directed by the hand of a child could shatter the strongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to...could be but to the annihilation of each. The age of <var was therefore gone, but with the cessation of war other effects bearing upon the social state... | |
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Btrongest fortress, or cleave its burning way from the van to the rear of an embattled host. If army met army, and both had command of this agency , it could be but to the annihilation of each. The age of war was therefore gone; but with the cessation... 
