Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 1Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 |
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... rising majestically from the bosom of the Mälar Lake , with its fourteen hundred islands and its one hundred and thirty châteaux , is a vision of beauty . Grim and tender , wild and subdued , gay and sombre by turns , it is an ...
... rising majestically from the bosom of the Mälar Lake , with its fourteen hundred islands and its one hundred and thirty châteaux , is a vision of beauty . Grim and tender , wild and subdued , gay and sombre by turns , it is an ...
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... rise and progress of art , the laws of the land , the diamond - cutting establishments , the cultivation of hyacinths and tulips - these will be topics of general information of an interesting character ; while the hut in which Peter ...
... rise and progress of art , the laws of the land , the diamond - cutting establishments , the cultivation of hyacinths and tulips - these will be topics of general information of an interesting character ; while the hut in which Peter ...
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... rise before us the gigantic pillars of the Temple of Zeus Olympius , sixteen stately columns of dazzling white marble of Pentelicus standing out against the sky - the solitary but magnificent remains of the. GENERAL VIEW OF ATHENS ...
... rise before us the gigantic pillars of the Temple of Zeus Olympius , sixteen stately columns of dazzling white marble of Pentelicus standing out against the sky - the solitary but magnificent remains of the. GENERAL VIEW OF ATHENS ...
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... rise tier upon tier on the hill - side , and view the same stage which saw the produc- tion of the plays of Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and all the great masterpieces of the Attic drama . We shall behold , too , the same scenery ...
... rise tier upon tier on the hill - side , and view the same stage which saw the produc- tion of the plays of Eschylus , Sophocles , Euripides , and all the great masterpieces of the Attic drama . We shall behold , too , the same scenery ...
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... rise in forests , that the eye takes in marvellous mosques and public buildings , battlemented walls and towers and houses rising tier upon tier , with cypress - trees between . We shall rather trust to our illus- trations to bring the ...
... rise in forests , that the eye takes in marvellous mosques and public buildings , battlemented walls and towers and houses rising tier upon tier , with cypress - trees between . We shall rather trust to our illus- trations to bring the ...
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