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" crowning city, whose merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth... "
Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Greece: Abridged ... - Page 256
by Oliver Goldsmith - 1843 - 372 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1818 - 606 pages
...of all nations whose wealth and grandeur are founded exclusively on ships, colonies, and commerce. The ' crowning city, whose merchants were princes,...whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth,' had long passed into a state of the third class, existing merely because not demolished, and ready...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 19

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 pages
...of all nations whose wealth and grandeur are founded exclusively on ships, colonies, and commerce. The ' crowning city, whose merchants were princes,...whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth/ had long passed into a state of the third class, existing merely because not demolished, and ready...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19

1819 - 630 pages
...wealth and grandeur are founded exclusively on ships, colonies, and commerce. The ' crowning city, Those merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth,' had long passed into a state of the third elasg, existing merely because not demolished, and ready...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1865 - 1194 pages
...centres of the past are fraught with admonition. What of Genoa? of Venice? of Alexandria ? of Tyre, " whose merchants were princes," and " whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth?" Richmond has fallen at last. Is this great disaster to the Southern Confederacy the " beginning of...
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The Preacher.., Volumes 5-6

1833 - 896 pages
...ascertained, so complete has been its destruction. And what now is Tyre, once the crown of cities, whose merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth .' It is now, says a modern traveller, a mere Isabel of hrokru walis, pillars, and mountains; iu only...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 17

Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 pages
...of all nations whose wealth and grandeur are founded exclusively on ships, colonies, and commerce. The " crowning city, whose merchants were princes,...whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth," had long passed into a state of the third class, existing merely because not demolished, and ready...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 17

1836 - 596 pages
...wanders amid the splendours of this second Babylon, or twin-sister of the Tyrian queen of old,—" That crowning city, whose merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth,"—can he be deluded by all this vain show of happiness and prosperity ? Or will he not rather...
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On Ellis's Specimens of the early English poets. Ellis' and Ritson's ...

Walter Scott - 1841 - 464 pages
...Sidon—of all nations whose wealth and grandeur are founded exclusively on ships, colonies, and commerce. The " crowning city, whose merchants were princes,...whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth," had long passed into a state of the third class, existing merely because not demolished, and ready...
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An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical

Joseph Gwilt - 1842 - 1114 pages
...style ; but that it was much more highly decorated is extremely probable from the wealth of a people whose merchants were princes, and whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth. Besides the verses of Euripides, which point to the style of Phoenician architecture, we have the authority...
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Scripture Topography: Being Some Account of Places Mentioned in Holy ...

1843 - 432 pages
...bazaars, from the scorching heat of a Syrian sun. A single fishing-boat was lying in the harbour of the ' crowning city,' whose merchants were princes,...whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth." — Stephens' Incidents of Travels. " We had read," writes Mr. Jowett, during his visit to Tyre, "...
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