Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 3Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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... Four gates face the cardinal points of the compass , with inscriptions on the lintels dating from the year 830 . " " When the building is entered - and Christians have been at liberty to enter it since the Crimean War : a privilege not ...
... Four gates face the cardinal points of the compass , with inscriptions on the lintels dating from the year 830 . " " When the building is entered - and Christians have been at liberty to enter it since the Crimean War : a privilege not ...
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... four feet six inches , or two hundred and twenty - six feet four inches one way , and one hundred and eighty - nine feet four inches the other , larger than the Colosseum . To this area must be added that of the Piazza Rusticucci at one ...
... four feet six inches , or two hundred and twenty - six feet four inches one way , and one hundred and eighty - nine feet four inches the other , larger than the Colosseum . To this area must be added that of the Piazza Rusticucci at one ...
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... four years . According to the calculation of Carlo Fontana , the cost , exclusive of 405,453 pounds of bronze used in constructing the chair of St. Peter and the confessional , amounted to about eleven millions of our money . The ...
... four years . According to the calculation of Carlo Fontana , the cost , exclusive of 405,453 pounds of bronze used in constructing the chair of St. Peter and the confessional , amounted to about eleven millions of our money . 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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