Elgin and Phigaleian Marbles, المجلد 1Charles Knight, 1833 - 249 من الصفحات |
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Acropolis adorned Ægina Alcamenes altar antient antiquity Apollo appears architecture artists Athenian Athens Attica Bacchus bas-reliefs beautiful British Museum Bröndsted bronze building called Carrey Carrey's drawings cast Cecrops cella Centaur Cephisus Colonel Leake columns Dædalus deities eastern edifices Egyptian Eleusis Elgin room embellishments engraved Erectheus feet female figure fragments frieze front goddess gods gold Grecian Greece Greek Hadrian head Hercules honour horses hundred Hymettus Ilissus inscription ivory Juno Jupiter Olympius long walls Lord Elgin marble mentioned metopes Minerva monuments Munychia Neptune old arrangement Olympium ornamented painted Panathenaic Parthenon Pausan Pausanias pediment Pentelicus Pericles Persians Phidias Phidias's Piræus placed plain Pliny probably Propylæa Quatremère Quatremère de Quincy remains represented Roman round ruins sacrifice says sculp sculpture Selinus side slab statue of Minerva Stuart supposed temple of Jupiter temple of Theseus Thucydides tion Venus victim Victory Visconti western pediment worship writers καὶ
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الصفحة 88 - And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
الصفحة 88 - Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
الصفحة 90 - For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
الصفحة 2 - ... to take away any pieces of stone with old inscriptions or figures thereon, that no opposition be made thereto.
الصفحة 5 - Upon the Second , Division, it must be premised, that antecedently to Lord Elgin's departure for Constantinople, he communicated his intentions of bringing home casts and drawings from Athens, for the benefit and advancement of the fine Arts in this country, to Mr. Pitt, Lord Grenville,a.nd Mr.
الصفحة 129 - Such was the simple construction of this magnificent building, which, by its united excellences of materials, design, and decorations, was the most perfect ever executed. Its dimensions of two hundred and twenty-eight feet by a hundred and two, with a height of sixty-six feet to the top of the pediment, were sufficiently great to give an impression of grandeur and sublimity...
الصفحة 6 - They still possess their corner, and are easy to be recognized, .though not unimpaired. The rest of the statues are defaced, removed, or fallen. Morosini was ambitious to enrich Venice with the spoils of Athens, and, by an attempt to take down the principal group, hastened their ruin. In the other pediment is a head or two of sea-horses, finely executed, with some mutilated figures; and on the architrave beneath them are marks of the fixtures of votive offerings, perhaps of the golden shields, or...
الصفحة 6 - Porte ; but whether he did it by express permission, or in some less ostensible way, no means of ascertaining are within the reach of your Committee. It was undoubtedly at various times an object with the French Government to obtain possession- of some of these valuable remains, and it is probable, according to the testimony of Lord ABERDEEN and others, that at no .great distance of time they might have been removed by that government from their original site, if they had not been taken away, and...
الصفحة 159 - Grrrk marbles, brought from the shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean, and deposited in the vestibule of the public library of the University of Cambridge.
الصفحة 73 - ... may have its face towards the west, so that those who enter to sacrifice, or to make offerings, may have their faces to the east as well as to the statue in the temple. Thus suppliants, and those performing their vows, seem to have the temple, the east, and the deity, as it were, looking on them at the same moment. Hence all altars of the gods should be placed towards the east.