Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Zväzok 2,Časť 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Strana 84
... columns . A little high- er was a monument formed with such stones as occur . red , and defigned , it was faid , for the fon of Iphitus . One of thefe , Schedius , was killed by Hector , while fighting for the body of Patroclus , but ...
... columns . A little high- er was a monument formed with such stones as occur . red , and defigned , it was faid , for the fon of Iphitus . One of thefe , Schedius , was killed by Hector , while fighting for the body of Patroclus , but ...
Strana 91
... columns , thrones , alters , and other objects , appeared , as if nature had defigned to mock the curiofities of art . Our voices , upon fpeaking or finging , were redoubled to an afto- nishing loudnefs ; and , upon the firing of a gun ...
... columns , thrones , alters , and other objects , appeared , as if nature had defigned to mock the curiofities of art . Our voices , upon fpeaking or finging , were redoubled to an afto- nishing loudnefs ; and , upon the firing of a gun ...
Strana 92
... columns of a deep blood - red fhining porphyry , made , with the reflection of the lights , an appearance not to be conceived . This paffage is at leaft 40 yards long ; and of fo fleep a de- fcent , that one has enough to do , when ...
... columns of a deep blood - red fhining porphyry , made , with the reflection of the lights , an appearance not to be conceived . This paffage is at leaft 40 yards long ; and of fo fleep a de- fcent , that one has enough to do , when ...
Strana 93
... columns of marble . All round the lower part of the fides of the arch are a thou- fand white mafles of marble , in the fhape of oak - trees . Mr Tournefort compares them to cauliflowers , but I fhould as foon compare them to toad ftools ...
... columns of marble . All round the lower part of the fides of the arch are a thou- fand white mafles of marble , in the fhape of oak - trees . Mr Tournefort compares them to cauliflowers , but I fhould as foon compare them to toad ftools ...
Strana 103
... Column . See COLUMN . ANTONINUS's Wall , the name of the third rampart or defence that had been built or repaired by the Romans against the incurfions of the North Britons . It is call- ed by the people in the neighbourhood , Graham's ...
... Column . See COLUMN . ANTONINUS's Wall , the name of the third rampart or defence that had been built or repaired by the Romans against the incurfions of the North Britons . It is call- ed by the people in the neighbourhood , Graham's ...
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Strana 91 - ... a table. Upon our egress from this amazing cavern, we perceived a Greek inscription upon a rock at the mouth, but so obliterated by time, that we could not read it distinctly.