 They died in torments, and their torments were embittered by insult and derision. Some were nailed on crosses; others sewn up in the skins of wild beasts, and exposed to the fury of dogs: others again, smeared over with combustible materials, were used...  Italy and France: An Editor's Holiday - Page 181by Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 530 pages
...error, of whifh a precept of the Gospel (see CHAP." They died in torments, and their torments xvi. " were embittered by insult and derision. Some " were...fury " of dogs : Others, again, smeared over with " combustible materials, were used as torches *' to illuminate the darkness of the night. The " gardens... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1810 - 462 pages
...died in torments, ami Iheir torments •' were em hittered by insult and derision. Some worn '•' nailed on crosses ; others sewn up in the skins of...fury of dogs: others •• again, smeared over with combustible materials, " were used as torches to illuminate the darkness of " the night. The gardens... | |
 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...Emperor, Nero, inflicted the most exquisite tortures on the Christians, in the first Roman persecution. Some were nailed on crosses, others sewn up in the...the fury of dogs, others again, smeared over with combustilile materials, were used as torches to illuminate the darkness of the uight. The gardens of... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...torments ; and these were embittered by insult and derii •ion. Some were nailed on crosses, others sewed up in the skins of wild beasts, and exposed to the fury of dogs, ftthers again were smeared over with combustible matetials and used as torches to illumine the darkness... | |
 | William Jones - Albigenses - 1816 - 500 pages
...crime of setting fire to the city, as for their hatred of human kind. They died in torments ; and these were embittered by insult and derision. Some were nailed on crosses, others sewed up in the skins of wild beasts, and exposed to the fury of dogs, others again were smeared over... | |
 | James Sabine - Church history - 1820 - 656 pages
...these were imbittered by insult and •< derision. Some were nailed en erosses, others sewn - up in skins of wild beasts and exposed to the fury of "dogs; others again, smeared over with eombustible " materials, were used as torehes to illuminate the dark ness of the night. The gardens... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 520 pages
...Legation, vol. :5. p. 38.) But as the word comicti does uot unite very happily with the rest of the their torments were embittered by insult and derision....the fury of dogs ; others again, smeared over with combustible materials, were used as torches to illuminate the darkness of the night. The gardens of... | |
 | George Croly - Bible - 1827 - 344 pages
...began. Tacitus, almosta contemporary, describestheir deaths as combining all the forms of horror. " They died in torments, and their torments were embittered by -insult and derision. Some were nailed to crosses; others were sewn up in the skins of wild beasts, and exposed to the fury of dogs; others,... | |
 | Edward Irving - Bible - 1831 - 470 pages
...and their torments were embittered by insult anil -derision. Some were nailed on crosses; others were sewn up in the skins of wild beasts, and exposed to...the fury of dogs: others again, smeared over with combustible materials, were used as torches to illuminate the darkness of the night. The gardens of... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - Apologetics - 1836 - 324 pages
...392. __ 392. fire fell upon Rome, Nero "inflicted the most exquisite tortures upon the Christians." " They died in torments, and their torments were embittered...and derision. Some were nailed on crosses ; others were sown up in the skins of wild beasts, and exposed to the fury of dogs ; others again, smeared over... | |
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