 | Science - 1822 - 536 pages
...Ganges," " deterred, not by fear of the inhabitants, but as I suppose, by religious considerations," " for these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrow their...tempests, and thunderbolts shot from their walls." The Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus are likewise said to have been repulsed from the cities of these... | |
 | Agriculture - 1822 - 526 pages
...Ganges," " deterred, not by fear of the inhabitants, but as I suppose, by religious considerations," " for these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrow their...tempests, and thunderbolts shot from their walls." The Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus are likewise said to have been repulsed from the cities of these... | |
 | 1823 - 508 pages
...a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault ; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them ;...with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said, that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they over-ran India, invaded this people also,... | |
 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - Science - 1835 - 648 pages
...farther India, could never have been taken by Alexander, " for they come not out into the field (says he) to fight those who attack them ; but these holy men,...beloved by the gods, overthrow their enemies with lightnings and thunderbolts, shot from their walls." boo, which they use on a hasty retreat by planting... | |
 | Henry Wilkinson - Technology & Engineering - 1841 - 422 pages
...a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax to the assault ; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them ;...tempests and thunder-bolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they overran India, invaded this people also,... | |
 | Arts - 1844 - 498 pages
...a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault ; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them ; but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrew their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian... | |
 | Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pages
...brave " as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax. " to the assault. For they come not out into " the field to fight those who attack them ; but " these holy men, beloved by the gods, over" throw their enemies with tempests and thun" der-bolts shot from their walls. Tis said that "... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - Great Britain - 1848 - 1102 pages
...thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault : for they come not out into the field to fight those who attack them, but these...tempests, and thunderbolts, shot from their walls. It is said, that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they overran India, invaded this people also... | |
 | 1855 - 534 pages
...thousand an brave as Achilles', or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault ; for they coine not out to the field to fight those who attack them, but...with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian Hercules and Bacchus, when they over-ran India, Invaded this people also,... | |
 | John Scoffern - Firearms - 1852 - 232 pages
...a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault ; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them, but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrew their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls. It is said that the Egyptian... | |
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Ajax to the assault ; for they come not out to the field to fight those who attack them ; but these holy men, beloved by the gods, overthrow their enemies with tempests and thunder-bolts shot from their walls. 
