 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 328 pages
...leaves of silver, and the 10 light tassel of the same material that floated gracefully from its top. The most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride...Cuzco, where, under the munificence of successive sover15 eigns, it had become so enriched that it received the name of " The Place of Gold." It consisted... | |
 | Thomas Benjamin Neely - 1909 - 314 pages
...of their glorious deity." Of the chief Inca temple, Prescott gives Temple at this description: "But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride...enriched that it received the name of Coricancha, 'The Place of Gold.' It consisted of a principal building and several chapels and inferior edifices,... | |
 | Thomas Benjamin Neely - 1909 - 374 pages
...deity." Of the chief Inca temple, Prescott gives Temple at this description: "But the most renowned uzco of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital,...enriched that it received the name of Coricancha, 'The Place of Gold. ' It consisted of a principal building and several chapels and inferior edifices,... | |
 | James H. Anderson - 1911 - 338 pages
...ancient of the many sun temples was on an island in Lake Titicaca; the most renowned was at Cuzco, called the place of gold. It consisted of a principal building and several chapels in the heart of the city, closed in by a wall which, like all the buildings, were of stone. The interior... | |
 | Rajani Ranjan Sen - 1912 - 370 pages
...his 'Conquest of Peru' regarding Sun-worship in that portion of the globe in the most ancient times : "The most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride...capital, and the wonder of the empire, was at Cuzco . . . The interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration. It was totally a mine of gold,... | |
 | 1848 - 960 pages
...the bush with God may meet ? CHOICE EXTRACTS FROM PRESCOTTS PERU. TUB TBMPLK or тип Strs.— But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride...several chapels and inferior edifices, covering a large estent of ground in the heart of the city, and completely encompassed by a wall, which, with the edifices,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 2004 - 618 pages
...store. Happy was the man who could secure even an ear of the blessed harvest for his own granary! 14 But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride...principal building and several chapels and inferior edif1ces, covering a large extent of ground in the heart of the city, and completely encompassed by... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1858 - 598 pages
...in the temples of the country. Let us take the most striking illustration. The temple at Cuzco was the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire. By the munificence of successive Sovereigns it had become so enriched, that it received the name of... | |
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But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire, was at Cuzco, where, under the munificence of successive sovereigns, it had become so enriched, that it received the name of Coricancha, or "the Place... 
