 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it, if we give any credit to the report that ten thousand men could only remove the rubbish preparatory to repairing...complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which arc seen BABEI» T HIC SCRIPTURE GAZETTEER. ou the top of the mount appear to have marked its summit... | |
 | Claudius James Rich - Babylon - 1839 - 490 pages
...nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it ; if we give any credit to the report that ten thousand men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to...appear to have marked its summit since the time of its destruction. The rubbish about its base was probably in much greater quantities, the weather having... | |
 | William Goodhugh, William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 744 pages
...nearly in the same state in which Alexander saw it, if we give any credit to the report that 10,000 men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to...of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mound appear to have marked its summit since the time of its destruction. The rubbish about its base... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1841 - 800 pages
...pretty nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it ; if we give any credit to the report that 10,000 men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to...complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are Been on the top of the mount, appear to have marked its summit since the time of its destruction. The... | |
 | John R. Miles - Bible - 1846 - 512 pages
...pretty nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it ; if we give any credit to the report that 10,000 men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to repairing it, in two months. If indeed it required one-half of that number to disencumber it, the state of dilapidation must have been complete. The immense... | |
 | William Sandys Wright Vaux - Assyria - 1850 - 488 pages
...nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it ; if we give any credit to the report that ten thousand men could only remove the rubbish preparatory to repairing...appear to have marked its summit since the time of its destruction. The rubbish about its base was probably in much greater quantities, the weather having... | |
 | Mrs. Warren (Eliza) - 1751 - 206 pages
...report that ten thousand men could only remove the rubbish in two months, preparatory to repairing it. If, indeed, it required one half of that number to...disencumber it, the state of dilapidation must have been then complete. The immense masses of vitrified brick which are seen on the top of the mount, appear... | |
 | John Farrar - Bible - 1852 - 692 pages
...nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it, if we give any credit to the report, that ten thousand men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to...repairing it, in two months. If, indeed, it required one-half of that number to disencumber it, the state of dilapidation must have been complete. The immense... | |
 | Seven wonders - Architecture, Ancient - 1854 - 384 pages
...pretty nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it ; if we give any credit to the report that 10,000 men could only remove the rubbish, . preparatory to...repairing it, in two months. If, indeed, it required onehalf of that number to disencumber it, the state of dilapidation must have been complete. The immense... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - Seven Wonders of the World - 1854 - 332 pages
...nearly in the state in which Alexander saw it ; if we give any credit to the report that ten thousand men could only remove the, rubbish, preparatory to...repairing it, in two months. If, indeed, it required one-half of that number to disencumber it, the state of dilapidation must have been complete. The immense... | |
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Alexander saw it ; if we give any credit to the report that 10,000 men could only remove the rubbish, preparatory to repairing it, in two months. If indeed it required one half of that number to disencumber it, the state of dilapidation must have been... 
