Ruins of Ancient Cities, 1: With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall and Present ConditionThomas Tegg, 1840 - 499 páginas |
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... square all the gold and silver in the city , and carry all the rest of the valuable effects into the quadrireme of the Rhodians and the trireme of the Cyzicenians . This resolution having passed unanimously , another assembly was called ...
... square all the gold and silver in the city , and carry all the rest of the valuable effects into the quadrireme of the Rhodians and the trireme of the Cyzicenians . This resolution having passed unanimously , another assembly was called ...
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... square holes , employed in a different mode of interment , and serving as receptacles of urns . One ponderous piece of the rock lies in an extraordinary position . By the failure of its foundation , or the shock of an earthquake , it ...
... square holes , employed in a different mode of interment , and serving as receptacles of urns . One ponderous piece of the rock lies in an extraordinary position . By the failure of its foundation , or the shock of an earthquake , it ...
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... square form , adorned with the heads of animals , whose necks were encom- passed with golden circles a foot and a half in breadth ; to these were hung crowns that glittered with the liveliest colours , and such as were carried in ...
... square form , adorned with the heads of animals , whose necks were encom- passed with golden circles a foot and a half in breadth ; to these were hung crowns that glittered with the liveliest colours , and such as were carried in ...
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... square structure built of white marble , on the top of which a fire was constantly kept burning , in order to guide ships by night . Pharos was originally an island at the distance nearly of a mile from the continent , but was ...
... square structure built of white marble , on the top of which a fire was constantly kept burning , in order to guide ships by night . Pharos was originally an island at the distance nearly of a mile from the continent , but was ...
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... square castle was built without taste or ornament , and incapable of sustaining the fire of a single vessel of the line at present , in a space of two leagues , walled round , nothing is to be seen but marble columns lying in the dust ...
... square castle was built without taste or ornament , and incapable of sustaining the fire of a single vessel of the line at present , in a space of two leagues , walled round , nothing is to be seen but marble columns lying in the dust ...
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Acropolis admirable adorned afterwards Alexander Alexandria ancient antiquity appears arches architecture Argos army Athenians Athens Babylon Balbec battle beauty bricks building built called capital Carthage Carthaginians celebrated chamber citizens Clarke columns Corinthian order covered Ctesiphon cubits Darius destroyed Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Dodwell Doric order earth Ecbatana edifices Egypt Egyptian elegant emperor enemy entirely erected Euphrates feet fragments gates gold grandeur Greece Greek ground Hadrian height Heliopolis Herodotus honour houses inhabitants inscription king Lacedæmonians length magnificent manner Megara miles monuments mosque mountain never ornaments palace Parthenon Pausanias Pericles Persians pillars Piræus plain Plutarch portico prince Ptolemy pyramid reign remains rich river rock Rollin Romans Rome ruins says sculpture seen sepulchres side siege situated spot square stands statue stone stood Strabo structure supposed temple theatre Theseus thousand tion tomb tower town traveller Turks vast walls Wheler white marble whole