 | Joseph Lomas Towers - 1808 - 346 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden engine,...while the consecrated bread was forced down their throats ; the breasts of tender virgins were either burnt with red-hot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed... | |
 | William Edward Scudamore - 1851 - 346 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden engine,...consecrated bread was forced down their throat*," and many other horrors were enacted too painful to be related. As members of the Church of England... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pagine
...children who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden engine...burnt with red-hot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed be1U See Socrates, 1. ii. c. 6, 7, 12, 13, 15, 16, 20, 27, 38; and. Sozotnen, I. iii. 3, 4, 7, 9, 1.... | |
 | James Lillie - 1870 - 208 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents. The mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden engine,...egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards."f The principal assistants of Macedonius were the Bishops of Nicomedia and Cyzicus, who were... | |
 | Thomas William Doane - 1882 - 648 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents; the months of the communicants were held open by a wooden engine,...while the consecrated bread was forced down their throats ; the breasts of tender virgins were either burned with redhot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed... | |
 | Richard Eddy - 1892 - 288 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the Communicants were held open by a wooden engine,...while the consecrated bread was forced down their throats; the breasts of tender Virgins were either burnt with red-hot egg shells, or inhumanly compressed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 632 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose; had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open by a wooden engine,...the breasts of tender virgins were either burnt with Ted-hot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards.154 The Novatians of Constantinople... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 642 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open, by a wooden engine,...throat; the breasts of tender virgins were either burned with red-hot egg-shells, or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards.1" The Novatians... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open, by a wooden engine,...egg-shells or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards.157 The Novatians of Constantinople 166 See Socrates, . ii. c. 6, -j, .2, 13, 15, 16, 26, 37,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 492 pagine
...children, who, for that purpose, had been torn from the arms of their friends and parents ; the mouths of the communicants were held open, by a wooden engine,...egg-shells or inhumanly compressed between sharp and heavy boards.157 The Novatians of Constantinople and the adjacent country, by their firm attachment to the... | |
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... Constantius. The sacraments of the church were administered to the reluctant victims, who denied the vocation and abhorred the principles of Macedonius. The rites of baptism were conferred on women and children who, for that purpose, had been torn... 
