counterworks

Thucydides describes the Peloponnesian siege operations and the Plataean counterworks.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Thucydides describes the Peloponnesian siege operations and the Plataean counterworks.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Still the Plataeans feared that in spite of these counterworks they would at length be overpowered by numbers, unless they contrived some better means of defence.

Stories from Thucydides

Poison is said to be extracted from the rattlesnake for medicinal purposes; but infinitely more wonderful is the fact that the suffering which comes out of sin counterworks sin, and brings to pass the transfiguration of the sufferer.

The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little Grenville Kleiser 1910

It seems therefore strange that, unless their movements were impeded by counterworks and lines of walls, of which we have no information, the troops of Demosthenes should not, at least in their retreat, have been able to pour down over the gentle descent of Epipolæ toward the Anapus, instead of returning to Euryâlus.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866

It seems therefore strange that, unless their movements were impeded by counterworks and lines of walls, of which we have no information, the troops of Demosthenes should not, at least in their retreat, have been able to pour down over the gentle descent of Epipolæ toward the Anapus, instead of returning to Euryâlus.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

It is a sin which others cry out shame on and look upon with disdain; he that is haughty makes himself contemptible; it is a sin for which God often brings men down, as he did Nebuchadnezzar and Herod, whose ignominy immediately attended their vain-glory; for God resists the proud, contradicts them, and counterworks them, in the thing they are proud of, Isa.ii. 11, &c.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Christ, in his character of Son of man, exerts his mastery over nature, and by his miraculous deeds counterworks the sufferings that have sprung from the enslavement of sinful humanity under nature, and when he promises like power also to his disciples on condition of faith [Matt. xvii, 20; Mark xvi,

Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

Thornton; but Lord Dunotter, who was penetration itself, easily fathomed the depth of his lady’s mines, and formed his own counterworks accordingly.

Any Thing But What You Expect 1819