 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 sider
...dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thtmdcr, and thevelocity of lightening, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' The of it. It was invented, as already related, by Callinicus, a Syrian *, and the injuries or discomfiture... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 sider
...report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and that the darkness of the night was dispelled by its deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or as it...fourteenth century, when the scientific or casual discovery of gunpowder, effected a revolution in the art of war, and the history of mankind. Constantinople... | |
 | 1838 - 518 sider
...dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' The ue of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 14th century, when the more efficient employment... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 328 sider
...long-tailed dragon about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination.' Some very learned authors are of opinion, that allusion is made to this composition in the legend which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 sider
...dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this...illumination. The use of the Greek, or, as it might now be willed, of the Saracen fire, was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century,23 when the scientific... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1864 - 626 sider
...dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this...deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or, as it may be called, the Saracen fire was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1864 - 596 sider
...dragon, about the thickness of an hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this...deadly illumination. The use of the Greek, or, as it may be called, the Saracen fire was continued to the middle of the fourteenth century, when the scientific... | |
 | 1867 - 522 sider
...dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination." The use of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 1 4th century, when the more efficient employment of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1867 - 744 sider
...and Egypt, they retorted an invention, contrived against themselves, on the head of the Christians. The use of the Greek, or, as it might now be called,...compound of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal effected & new revolution in the art of war and the history of mankind. § 12. Constantinople and the Greek... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 526 sider
...dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with a report of thunder and the velocity of lightning ; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination." The use of Greek fire was continued to the middle of the 14th century, when the more efficient employment of gunpowder... | |
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It came flying through the air, says Joinville, like a winged long-tailed dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the velocity of lightning; and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this deadly illumination. 
