 To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries. Moreover, they divided the beasts among the armies, and for every elephant they appointed a thousand men, armed with coats of mail...  The Family Library (Harper). - Page 2601844Full view - About this book
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 pages
...find a successor of Antiochus employing elephants of war in his battles with the Jews. The reader is familiar with the singular passage in the book of...end they might provoke the elephants to fight they shewed them the blood of grapes and mulberries. Moreover they divided the beasts among the armies,... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 pages
...find a successor of Antiochus employing elephants of war in his battles with the Jews. The reader is familiar with the singular passage in the book of...end they might provoke the elephants to fight they shewed them the blood of grapes and mulberries. Moreover they divided the beasts among the armies,... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1833 - 420 pages
...friendship for his keeper, and obeys him to the utmost of his capacity. * ' And that they might provoke tho elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries.' 1 Mac. vi. 34. t ' And upon the heasU there were strong towers of wood, which covered each of them,... | |
 | 1856 - 568 pages
...against the Jews, given by the unknown author who wrote the First Book of Maccabees : " To the end that they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and of mulberries." — 1 Mac. vi. 34. Dr. More, by using the expression spread " before" the elephants,... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1854 - 586 pages
...employing it The SyroMacedonians appear to have used a different stimulus to produce the same effect : " To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight,...they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries." — 1 Mace. vi. 34. 2 By this " multitude of islands" in the Indian Sea, is plainly meant the extensive... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1854 - 544 pages
...employing it. The SyroMacedonians appear to have used a different stimulus to produce the same effect: " To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed, them the blood of grapes and mulberries."—1 Mace. vi. 34. 2 By this " multitude of islands" in the Indian Sea, is plainly mea.nfr;... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1854 - 548 pages
...employing it. The SyroMacedonians appear to have used a different stimulus to produce the same effect: " To the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries."—1 Mace. vi. 34. have been intended to apply to some other country than Zanzibar; Abyssinia,... | |
 | Anthony (st, of Padua.) - 1856 - 150 pages
...hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them. 1 Macc. vi. 34. And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight,...they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries. Heb. xii. 3. For consider Him that endured such contra . 1 diction of sinners against Himself, lest... | |
 | 1856 - 598 pages
...against the Jews, given by the unknown author who wrote the First Book of Maccabees : " To the end that they might provoke the elephants to fight, they showed them the blood of grapes and of mulberries." — 1 Mac. vi. 34. Dr. More, by using the expression spread " before" the elephants,... | |
 | 1859 - 764 pages
...when used in war, was stimulated by the sight of the red juice of mulberries and grapes : — "And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight,...they showed them the blood of grapes and mulberries." — I Maccabees vi. 34. The passage in question involves a very curious point regarding the instincts... | |
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