| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...rises between two lofty and perpetual fountains, to the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Rome,...elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian and the student:75 and the footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition, but of empire, are devoutly... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1855 - 628 pages
...the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments, of ancient Home, have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian and the student ;* could no longer be kept inactive, these vigilant observers of its ways provided for it this lightest... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English language - 1857 - 416 pages
...which rises between two lofty and perpetual fountains to the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Rome...but of empire, are devoutly visited by a new race of pil1 Edward Gibbon, the historian, was born at Putney, in Surrey, in 1737, and died in London, 1794.... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 434 pages
...'which rises between two lofty and perpetual fountains to the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Rome...the North. Of these pilgrims, and of every reader, 1 Edward Gibbon, the historian, was born at Putney, in Surrey, in 1737, and died in London, in 1794.... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 pages
...the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Eome have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian...the North. Of these pilgrims, and of every reader, 1 Edward Gibbon, the historian, was born at Putney, in Surrey, in 1737, and died in London, in 1794.... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 pages
...perpetual fountains, to the height of 120 feet. The map, the description, the monuments, of ancient Home, have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian...the remote, and once savage, countries of the North. — GIBBON. CHAPTEB VIII. GEOLOGICAL HISTORY. THKBE are many analogies between geological history and... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...and ends with a picture of the renewed glories of the imperial city in its present aspect, when its " footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition,...savage countries of the north. Of these pilgrims," he says in conclusion in a retrospective glance at the entire work, "the attention will be excited... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1880 - 662 pages
...perpetual fountains, to the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monument* of ancient Rome, have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian and the student : 75 and the footsteps of heroes, the relics, not of superstition, but of empire, are devoutly visited... | |
| David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 392 pages
...which rises between two lofty and perpetual fountains to the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Rome...remote and once savage countries of the North.— Edward Qibbm (1737-1794). (8) When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who would either... | |
| David Jayne Hill - English language - 1893 - 394 pages
...the height of one hundred and twenty feet. The map, the description, the monuments of ancient Home have been elucidated by the diligence of the antiquarian...remote and once savage countries of the North.— Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). (3) When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who would... | |
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