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Page 227
... Rome , as works of convenience and utility , would , independently of any additional title , challenge the com- petition of all ages and of all countries . Other cities , antient and modern , owe their fame to one or a few edifices : but ...
... Rome , as works of convenience and utility , would , independently of any additional title , challenge the com- petition of all ages and of all countries . Other cities , antient and modern , owe their fame to one or a few edifices : but ...
Page 228
... Rome . The Greeks appear to have con- fined their magnificence to gates , mausoleums , and temples : but , among all their ruins which we visit , and all their perfect structures of which we read , it would be difficult to find a temple ...
... Rome . The Greeks appear to have con- fined their magnificence to gates , mausoleums , and temples : but , among all their ruins which we visit , and all their perfect structures of which we read , it would be difficult to find a temple ...
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... Rome adequate to the expectation of the traveller , and to the fame of the city . The other was on a scale still greater than the preceding , and intended to form a becoming approach to St. Peter's , by a double colonnade from the Ponte ...
... Rome adequate to the expectation of the traveller , and to the fame of the city . The other was on a scale still greater than the preceding , and intended to form a becoming approach to St. Peter's , by a double colonnade from the Ponte ...
Contents
Relation of the Siege of Tarragona | 53 |
Retreat Description | 60 |
Liberality and Prejudice | 66 |
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