Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Page 13
... magnificent cities , which abounded in this once flourishing island , and still attest , even in their fall , that unrivalled taste and grandeur of sentiment , which distin- guished the Grecian colonies no less than their mother ...
... magnificent cities , which abounded in this once flourishing island , and still attest , even in their fall , that unrivalled taste and grandeur of sentiment , which distin- guished the Grecian colonies no less than their mother ...
Page 15
... magnificent pecu- liar to itself . Nature traced out its plan in a vast platform of rock ; Art * Strabo erred in calling it an Ionian colony : it was planted by the people of Gela , who derived their origin from Rhodes , and the ...
... magnificent pecu- liar to itself . Nature traced out its plan in a vast platform of rock ; Art * Strabo erred in calling it an Ionian colony : it was planted by the people of Gela , who derived their origin from Rhodes , and the ...
Page 49
... magnificent golden beard from the Epidaurian Esculapius , under plea of this unequal distribution between the father and son . The statue mentioned in the text was discovered in a bath , where , indeed , it would be most appropriately ...
... magnificent golden beard from the Epidaurian Esculapius , under plea of this unequal distribution between the father and son . The statue mentioned in the text was discovered in a bath , where , indeed , it would be most appropriately ...
Page 60
... magnificent mausoleum to re- ceive the ashes of his father . To render his fortress complete , Diony- sius constructed within it a mint , a prison , a magazine of arms fur- nished with accoutrements for 70,000 men , with superb ...
... magnificent mausoleum to re- ceive the ashes of his father . To render his fortress complete , Diony- sius constructed within it a mint , a prison , a magazine of arms fur- nished with accoutrements for 70,000 men , with superb ...
Page 68
... magnificent temple of Olympian Jupiter , its different parts being connected by a broad * Curia Syracusis , quem locum illi Buleuterium vocant . - Cic Act . ii . in Ver . رو TEMPLE OF JUPITER - FORUM PRYTANEUM . " 69.
... magnificent temple of Olympian Jupiter , its different parts being connected by a broad * Curia Syracusis , quem locum illi Buleuterium vocant . - Cic Act . ii . in Ver . رو TEMPLE OF JUPITER - FORUM PRYTANEUM . " 69.
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