Architectural illustrations and account of the Temple church, London. [With] Essay on the symbolic evidences of the Temple church, by E. Clarkson1838 - 40 pages |
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Architectural Illustrations and Account of the Temple Church, London. With ... Robert William Billings No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 16 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.
Page 31 - I. in the year 1283, taking with him Robert Waleran, and other, came to the Temple, where calling for the keeper of the treasure-house, as if he meant to see his mother's jewels, that were laid up there to be safely kept, he entered into the house, breaking the coffers of certain persons that had likewise brought their money thither, and he took away from thence to the value of a thousand pounds.
Page 32 - We may believe that king Philip would never have taken away their lives if he might have taken their lands without putting them to death, but the mischief was, he could not get the honey unless he burnt the bees.
Page 33 - Knights o' th' Posts, About the cross-legg'd knights, their hosts; Or wait for customers between The pillar-rows in Lincoln's Inn ; Where vouchers, forgers, common-bail.
Page 16 - And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold ; and* so covered the altar which was of cedar.