Each year is marked by the repetition of earthquakes, of such duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days; of such extent, that the shock has been communicated to the whole surface of the globe, or at least of the Roman empire. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY: - Seite 223von HUGH MURRAY, F.R.S.E. - 1855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1789 - 688 Seiten
...was felt : enormous chafms were opened, huge and heavy bodies were difcharged into the air, the fea alternately advanced and retreated beyond its ordinary...bounds, and a mountain was torn from Libanus*, and calt into the waves, where it protened, as a mole, the new harbour of Botrys in Phoenicia. The ftroke... | |
| 1789 - 682 Seiten
...alternately advanced and retreated beyond Us ordinary bounds, and a mountain was torn from Libanus*, and caft into the waves, where it protected, as a mole, the new harbour of Botrys in Phoenicia. The ftroke that agitates an ant-hill, may crufh the infect myriads in the duft ; yet truth... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1802 - 454 Seiten
...globe, or at leaft of the Roman empire. An impulfive or vibratory motion was felt : enormous chafms were opened, huge and heavy bodies were discharged into the air, the fea alternately advanced and retreated beyond its ordinary bounds, and a mountain was torn from Libanus... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 Seiten
...duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days; of such extent, that the shock has been communicated to the whole surface of the globe, or at least of the Roman empire. An 81 Paradise Lost was published in the year 1667 ; and the famous lines (1. ii. 708, &c.) which btartied... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 454 Seiten
...duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days ; of such extent, that the shock has been communicated to the whole surface of the globe,...ordinary bounds, and a mountain was torn from Libanus f, and * The earthquakes that shook the Roman world in the reign of Justinian, are described or mentioned... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days ; of such extent, that the shock has been communicated to the whole surface of the globe,...retreated beyond its ordinary bounds, and a mountain was torn.from Libanus f , and * The earthquakes that shook the Roman world in the reign of Justinian, are... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 456 Seiten
...whole surface of the globe, or at least of the Roman . empire. An impulsiveorvibratorymotionwasfelt: enormous chasms were opened, huge and heavy bodies...its ordinary bounds, and a mountain was torn from Libanus,p 0 The earthquakes that shook the Roman world in the reign of Justinian. arc described or... | |
| Elias Boudinot - 1815 - 600 Seiten
...duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days ; of such extent, that the shock was communicated to the whole surface of the globe, or...protected, as a mole, the new harbour of Botrys, in Phrenicia." Two hundred and fifty thousand persons are said to have perislied in the earthquake of... | |
| Elias Boudinot - 1815 - 598 Seiten
...duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days ; of such extent, that the shock was communicated to the whole surface of the globe, or...bounds ; and a mountain was torn from Libanus, and cnst into the waves, where it protected, as a mole, the new harbour of Botrys, in Phoenicia." Two hundred... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 508 Seiten
...duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days ; of such extent, that the shock has been communicated to the whole surface of the globe, or at least of the Roman empire. 81 Paradise Lost was published in the year 1667; and the famous lines (1. ii. 708, &c.) which startled... | |
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