Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 3Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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Page 180
... Rome shall stand ; When falls the Colosseum , Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls - the world ! " South - eastward from the ancient Porta Capena stretches the celebrated Appian Way , the most remarkable of those vast arteries of ...
... Rome shall stand ; When falls the Colosseum , Rome shall fall ; And when Rome falls - the world ! " South - eastward from the ancient Porta Capena stretches the celebrated Appian Way , the most remarkable of those vast arteries of ...
Page 191
... Rome are exquisite in their taste and the riches of their treasures , but more so in lovely gardens attached to them ... Rome , than Hawthorne in his " Transformations . " There are several spots in Rome from which magnificent views of ...
... Rome are exquisite in their taste and the riches of their treasures , but more so in lovely gardens attached to them ... Rome , than Hawthorne in his " Transformations . " There are several spots in Rome from which magnificent views of ...
Page 195
... Rome is 2,637 years old as a city . If , in one sense , she is the oldest capital in Western Europe , and second in age only to Athens among the existing capitals of the whole of Europe , there is also a sense in which she is the ...
... Rome is 2,637 years old as a city . If , in one sense , she is the oldest capital in Western Europe , and second in age only to Athens among the existing capitals of the whole of Europe , there is also a sense in which she is the ...
Contents
JERUSALEM | 1 |
BRUSSELS AND THE CITIES OF BELGIUM | 33 |
The Ancient Navigators The Swedish ColonyWilliam Penn the Founder of the CityThe Dreary Morning | 92 |
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