Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 3Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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... ruins of which city we are standing -Solomon , Nehemiah , Herod , Hadrian , Constantine , Omar , Godfrey , Saladin , Suleiman . Each ruin in turn represents a city . In tracking the footsteps of the explorers let us go back to the ...
... ruins of which city we are standing -Solomon , Nehemiah , Herod , Hadrian , Constantine , Omar , Godfrey , Saladin , Suleiman . Each ruin in turn represents a city . In tracking the footsteps of the explorers let us go back to the ...
Page 180
... ruin , but every part of it may be distinctly reproduced to the mind's eye from the fragment ( one - third of the ... ruins in marble ; but the disappointment is only temporary , and at every fresh visit the vastness and wonderfulness ...
... ruin , but every part of it may be distinctly reproduced to the mind's eye from the fragment ( one - third of the ... ruins in marble ; but the disappointment is only temporary , and at every fresh visit the vastness and wonderfulness ...
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... ruins only second in extent to those of the Colosseum . They were commenced by Caracalla , continued by Heliogabalus , and completed by Alexander Severus . In A.D. 216 they were opened to the public , and when completed were capable of ...
... ruins only second in extent to those of the Colosseum . They were commenced by Caracalla , continued by Heliogabalus , and completed by Alexander Severus . In A.D. 216 they were opened to the public , and when completed were capable of ...
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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