Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 1Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 |
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... built . There is a striking difference between the stateliness of St. Petersburg and the picturesqueness of Moscow . The former is an unbroken level , with wide streets and handsome buildings , formal and a little monoto- nous ; the ...
... built . There is a striking difference between the stateliness of St. Petersburg and the picturesqueness of Moscow . The former is an unbroken level , with wide streets and handsome buildings , formal and a little monoto- nous ; the ...
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... built in successive tiers , in which are hung thirty - four bells , while below is the Czar Kolokol , the " Czar of Bells . " Near us and around is the lofty front of the palace , with its splendid halls of the Orders of St. Alexander ...
... built in successive tiers , in which are hung thirty - four bells , while below is the Czar Kolokol , the " Czar of Bells . " Near us and around is the lofty front of the palace , with its splendid halls of the Orders of St. Alexander ...
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... built ; while Butler said of the whole country that it 66 draws fifty feet of water , In which men live as in the hold of Nature , And when the sea does in upon them break And drowns a province , does but spring a leak . " The structure ...
... built ; while Butler said of the whole country that it 66 draws fifty feet of water , In which men live as in the hold of Nature , And when the sea does in upon them break And drowns a province , does but spring a leak . " The structure ...
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... built , it is said , by Cimon about B.c. 470 , to ATHENS . 13 commemorate the appearance of the tutelary hero. FOUNTAIN OF CYBELE , PRADO , MADRID . GENERAL VIEW OF ATHENS . ( From a Photograph by. 12 CITIES OF THE WORLD .
... built , it is said , by Cimon about B.c. 470 , to ATHENS . 13 commemorate the appearance of the tutelary hero. FOUNTAIN OF CYBELE , PRADO , MADRID . GENERAL VIEW OF ATHENS . ( From a Photograph by. 12 CITIES OF THE WORLD .
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... built or Israel was a nation - at war with Jews , As- syrians , Persians , Macedonians , Romans , and Arabs ; the place in which St. Paul tarried , and from which Mohammed turned away , saying , ' Only one Paradise is allowed to man ...
... built or Israel was a nation - at war with Jews , As- syrians , Persians , Macedonians , Romans , and Arabs ; the place in which St. Paul tarried , and from which Mohammed turned away , saying , ' Only one Paradise is allowed to man ...
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