 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 pàgines
...oil. Sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper,...Constantinople as the palladium of the state. The gallies and artillery might occasionally be lent to the allies of Rome, but the composition of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1788 - 368 pàgines
...it was depofited in fire-fliips, the victims and inftruments of a more ample revenge, and was moft commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which...were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully fhaped into the mouths of favage monfters, that feemed to vomit a ftream of liquid and confirming fire.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1802 - 410 pàgines
...depofited in fire-fhips, the viftims and inftruments of a more ample revenge, and was moft cpmtnonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully fhaped into the mouths of favage monfters, that feemed to vomit a ftream of liquid and confuming fire.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pàgines
...oil: sometimes it was deposited in fireships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper,...Constantinople, as the palladium of the state; the gillies and ariittery might occasionally be lent to the allies of Rome ; but the composition of the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pàgines
...deposited in fire-ships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge, and was most comnlonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted...Constantinople, as the palladium of the state ; the gallies and artillery might occasionally be lent to the allies of Rome ; but the composition of the... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 pàgines
...totv, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil; sometimes, it was deposited in fire ships, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which were planted on the prow of galley, and fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage iVnoi sters that seemed to vomit a stream of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pàgines
...Sometimes it was deposited in fire-ships, the victims and instruments of a more ample revenge ; and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper,...on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped into * AnnaComnena has partly drawn aside the curtain : ATo rtg; ariuxin, xeu TiKiuv ToioyrtwV §i/$fwvotii9aXuIv... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pàgines
...instruments of a more ample reTenge, and was most commonly blown through long tubes of copper, which planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire.' According to Gibbon, the secret of the Greek fire was confined above 400 years to the Romans of the... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pàgines
...of a more ample revenge, and was most commonly blown through FIR 2S1 FIS long tubes of copper, which planted on the prow of a galley, and fancifully shaped...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire. According to Gibbon, the secret of the Greek fire was confined above 400 years to the Romans of the... | |
 | P. Austin Nuttall - 1840 - 722 pàgines
...light with its flame, that we saw in our camps as clearly as in broad day." As these combustibles were fancifully shaped into the mouths of savage monsters,...seemed to vomit a stream of liquid and consuming fire, they prohably gave rise to those tales, so current at the period of the Crusades, of encounters with... | |
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... in large boilers, or launched in red-hot balls of stone and iron, or darted in arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow, which had deeply imbibed the inflammable oil ; sometimes it was deposited in fire-ships, the victims and instruments... 
