Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 3Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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Page 75
... side ; and over the gate is an upper storey borne by an architrave supported by Corinthian columns sixty - four feet high . On the architrave are inscriptions describing it as dividing Athens into two parts ; on the west side , towards ...
... side ; and over the gate is an upper storey borne by an architrave supported by Corinthian columns sixty - four feet high . On the architrave are inscriptions describing it as dividing Athens into two parts ; on the west side , towards ...
Page 80
... side are seen , as well as the whole of its western side . The Parthenon was , and is , " the finest edifice on the finest site in the world , hallowed by the noblest recollections . " At either end of the building was a portico of ...
... side are seen , as well as the whole of its western side . The Parthenon was , and is , " the finest edifice on the finest site in the world , hallowed by the noblest recollections . " At either end of the building was a portico of ...
Page 171
... side - streets . There is one shop in the Corso which ought to set every one thinking who sees it . It is a Depôt of the Bible Society - the whole window filled with copies of the Italian version of the Scriptures , spread open , one at ...
... side - streets . There is one shop in the Corso which ought to set every one thinking who sees it . It is a Depôt of the Bible Society - the whole window filled with copies of the Italian version of the Scriptures , spread open , one at ...
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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