 They sometimes forced their way into the courts of justice and compelled the affrighted judge to give orders for their immediate execution. They frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom...  Tales of the Early Ages - Page 170by Horace Smith - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward, if they consented, and by the threat of instant death, if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1825 - 582 pages
...frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward if they consented, and by the threat of instant death, if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1825 - 512 pages
...stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by a promise of a reward, if they consented, and by the threat of instant death, if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1829 - 770 pages
...frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward if they consented, and by the threat of instant death, if they refused tp grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pages
...second book of the Maccabees. public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward if they consented, and by the threat of instant death if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
 | Frederick Perry - Conduct of life - 1873 - 540 pages
...frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward if they consented, and by the threat of instant death if they refused to grant so very singular a favour.* No doubt these religious suicides, for they... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1881 - 454 pages
...discover the religion of the author. public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward if they consented, and by the threat oi instant death if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of... | |
 | Samuel Alexander Kenny Strahan - Mental illness - 1893 - 250 pages
...frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom by the promise of a reward if they consented, and by the threat of instant death if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1901 - 602 pages
...frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward, if they consented, and by the threat of instant death, if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1906 - 492 pages
...frequently stopped travellers on the public highways, and obliged them to inflict the stroke of martyrdom, by the promise of a reward, if they consented, and by the threat of instant death, if they refused to grant so very singular a favour. When they were disappointed of every other... | |
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