Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 1 pages |
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Page 19
... traveller Denon makes a very erroneous and extraordi- nary assertion in his description of this fabric , viz . that the ancient * Their measure , as well as the complete plan and proportions of this wonderful temple , which has hitherto ...
... traveller Denon makes a very erroneous and extraordi- nary assertion in his description of this fabric , viz . that the ancient * Their measure , as well as the complete plan and proportions of this wonderful temple , which has hitherto ...
Page 23
... traveller will observe with surprise , enor- mous fragments of those celebrated walls which formed a most dis- tinguishing feature in the prospect of Agrigentum † ; so immense were these ramparts , that they appear to have been used ...
... traveller will observe with surprise , enor- mous fragments of those celebrated walls which formed a most dis- tinguishing feature in the prospect of Agrigentum † ; so immense were these ramparts , that they appear to have been used ...
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... travellers talk of the remains of a theatre in this vicinity , but I could I believe that no historian makes mention of such an edifice at Agrigentum , except Julius Frontinus , in his third Book of Stratagems , but his text is ...
... travellers talk of the remains of a theatre in this vicinity , but I could I believe that no historian makes mention of such an edifice at Agrigentum , except Julius Frontinus , in his third Book of Stratagems , but his text is ...
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... traveller seize the earliest opportunity of inspecting the library and consulting its treasures , for it is shut on all festivals , and he may find it difficult to make his way through that army of Saints and Martyrs , which the Romish ...
... traveller seize the earliest opportunity of inspecting the library and consulting its treasures , for it is shut on all festivals , and he may find it difficult to make his way through that army of Saints and Martyrs , which the Romish ...
Page 31
... traveller will still recognise the chief features of the place . " Enna - est loco præcelso atque edito : quo in summo est æquata agri planities , & aquæ perennes : tota vero ab omni aditu cir- cumcisa atque diremta est : quam circa ...
... traveller will still recognise the chief features of the place . " Enna - est loco præcelso atque edito : quo in summo est æquata agri planities , & aquæ perennes : tota vero ab omni aditu cir- cumcisa atque diremta est : quam circa ...
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