 | Charles Rollin - 1735 - 520 pages
...!• 7anew, one for the army to pafs over, and the other c'3 3— 36. for the baggage and the beafts of burden. He appointed workmen more able and expert than the former ; and this was the manner they went about it. They placed three hundred and fixty vsflels a-crofs,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1804 - 584 pages
...management of that undertaking. s Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of...workmen more able and expert than the former, who went about it in this manner. They placed three - hundred and sixty vessels across, some of them having... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 454 pages
...workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give their labours greater stability : they placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait, some of them having three banks of oars, and others fifty oars a piece. They then cast large anchors into the water on both sides,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1814 - 578 pages
...workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give their labours greater stability, they placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait, some of them having three banks of oars, and others fifty oars a piece. They then cast large anchors into the water on both sides,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1815 - 544 pages
...management of that undertaking. * Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of...workmen more able and expert than the former, who went about it in this manner : they placed 360 vessels across, some of them having three banks of oars,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 422 pages
...workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give their labours greater stability : they placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait, some of them having three banks of oars, and others fifty oars a piece. They then cast anchors into the water on both sides,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1825 - 500 pages
...management of that undertaking.* Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army fo pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of...three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait, som<" llrroil.l. vii.c. XI— 3/> of them having three benches of oars, and others fifty oars a piece,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 pages
...workmen, now warned by .the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give their labours greater stability. They placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait, some of them having three banks of oars, and others fifty oars apiece. They then cast large anchors into the water on both sides,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1830 - 480 pages
...management of that undertaking.* Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of...hundred and sixty vessels across the strait, some s Herod. I. vii. o. 3J— 35. . of them having three benches of oars, and others fifty oars a piece,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 286 pages
...workmen, now warned by the fate of their predecessors, undertook to give their labors greater stability. They placed three hundred and sixty vessels across the strait, some of them having three banks of oars, and others fifty oars apiece. They then cast large anchors, on both sides, into the... | |
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Xerxes commanded two other bridges to be built, one for the army to pass over, and the other for the baggage and beasts of burden. He appointed workmen more able and expert than the former, who went about it in this manner. 
