Ruins of
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共 39 段- Miletus is thus described in the pages of Barthelemy, whose
- On the king’s issuing this edict, the people did as they wer
- Strong by nature and art, and by the number of its inhabitan
- Behind this place of worship, stand three pillars without ca
- On the hushed plain, where sullen horror broods,
- On the east side of the Piazza, stands a great number of mar
- In the time of Pausanias, Patræ was also adorned with portic
- Diodorus gives some account of the workmen, that were employ
- “In some places,” says Mr. Fraser, “the number of sculptures
- Till within these few years, these ruins have been to Europe
- This town was situated on a high and craggy rock, near Megal
- “In beholding them,” says Mr. Eustace, “and contemplating th
- The temple of Isis[129] is one of the most perfect examples,
- Notwithstanding the present desolate condition of Rama, it w
- The injury done by Genseric (A. D. 455), is said to have bee
- Not long before the imperialists carried Rome, the Colonnas,
- Ammianus Marcellinus, in his description of Constantine’s tr
- The portico of Octavia stood upon the Flaminian Circus and t
- A hall of immense size[169] was discovered about the beginni
- This palace received many additions by Tiberius, Caligula, a
- This vast amphitheatre is of an elliptical shape, which give
- “SENATVS. POPVLVSQUE.
- Xerxes, on his celebrated expedition, having arrived at Sard
- The government claimed these treasures, and caused them to b
- Eighteen years after this misfortune, Alexander of Macedon m
- The shafts of the columns of the temple of Jupiter are of or
- Historians and orators, of all ages, have been guilty of pra
- “Marcellus at length renounced his hopes of being able to ma
- “Ten stadia from the tombs of the kings of Thebes, is the ad
- “Viewed by lamp-light, the effect of this chamber is still m
- “The conqueror, behind whom is borne aloft the royal standar
- “It is now generally admitted, that the real statue of Memno
- “The ‘Luxor,’ again towed by the Sphynx, left Cherbourg on t
- From this period the history of the country is exceedingly o
- From the national and artificial elevation of the territory
- When the conqueror had satiated his vengeance, he rebuilt it
- [34] One of these is in the British Museum.
- [199] As he was but of mean extraction, he met with no respe
- [291] It is only by viewing the stupendous prospect afforded