Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 3Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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Page 107
... architecture ; and the main front is 230 feet long , with a high tower rising from the centre . In the same neighbourhood stand spacious buildings of granite and marble , owned and occupied by the Presbyterian Board of Publication , the ...
... architecture ; and the main front is 230 feet long , with a high tower rising from the centre . In the same neighbourhood stand spacious buildings of granite and marble , owned and occupied by the Presbyterian Board of Publication , the ...
Page 114
... architecture ; the Memorial , an amphitheatre , with green - stone walls ; the Fifth Church , in rich forms of decorated Gothic ; and several other fine edifices of brown - stone , with aspiring steeples . This form of Christianity was ...
... architecture ; the Memorial , an amphitheatre , with green - stone walls ; the Fifth Church , in rich forms of decorated Gothic ; and several other fine edifices of brown - stone , with aspiring steeples . This form of Christianity was ...
Page 116
... architecture , with many towers and gables , and the usual adjuncts of such an institution . Girard College has for its chief building the grandest existing specimen of the Corinthian temple - architecture , a huge pile of white marble ...
... architecture , with many towers and gables , and the usual adjuncts of such an institution . Girard College has for its chief building the grandest existing specimen of the Corinthian temple - architecture , a huge pile of white marble ...
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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