 ... hides; incessant volleys were securely discharged from the loopholes; in the front three doors were contrived for the alternate sally and retreat of the soldiers and workmen. They ascended by a staircase to the upper platform, and, as high as the...  Journal of the British Archaeological Association - 第 291 頁British Archaeological Association 著 - 1855完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 458 頁
...: this portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bulls' hides : incessant volleys were securely discharged...form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were pernicious to the Greeks, the tower of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 602 頁
.... . . incessant volleys were securely discharged from the loopholes ... as high as the level of the platform a scaling-ladder could be raised by pulleys...form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart.' But most remarkable was the Royalists' device against Canon Frome in 1645. ' The machine,' writes Mr.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 頁
...portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a three- ' ~ fold covering of bulls' hides : incessant volleys were securely discharged...form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were pernicious to the Greeks, the tower of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 332 頁
...workmen. They ascended by a staircase to the upper platform, and as high as the level of that platforrri a scaling-ladder could be raised by pulleys, to form a bridge and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were fatal to the Greeks, the tower of St.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 338 頁
...portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bull's hides ; and incessant volleys were securely discharged from the...form a bridge and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were fatal to the Greeks, the tower of St.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 頁
...: this portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bulls' hides : incessant volleys were securely discharged...form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were pernicious to the Greeks, the tower of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1852 - 656 頁
...from the loop-holes ; in the front, three doors were contrived for the alternate sally and Yetreat of the soldiers and workmen. They ascended by a staircase...form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were pernicious to the Greeks, the tower of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 頁
...rollers; this portable magazine of ammunition and fascines was protected by a threefold covering of bulls' hides ; incessant volleys were securely discharged...form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were pernicious to the Greeks, the tower of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1856 - 694 頁
...volleys were securely discharged from the loop-holes ; in the front, three doors were contrived^for the alternate sally and retreat of the soldiers and...form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart. Bj these various arts of annoyance, some as new as they were pernicious to the Greeks, the tower of... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1862 - 432 頁
...by a staircase, to the upper platform ; and, as high as the level of that platform, a scaling ladder could be raised by pulleys, to form a bridge, and grapple with the adverse rampart. By these various arts of annoyance, some as new, as they were pernicious, to the Greeks, the tower... | |
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