 | 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...was a stroke of genius, as Dean Stanley has remarked, and as Professor Van Millingen well maintains: The vitality and power of Constantinople are rooted...possibilities of complete isolation. No city can be more in and out of the world. It is the meeting place of some of the most important highways on the globe,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...Byzantine Constantinople,' p. 4). ' No city owes so much to its site. . . . Nowhere is the iufluence of geography upon history more strikingly marked....more in the world and out of the world. It is the meeting point of some of the most important highwnys on the globe, whether by sea or land ; the centre... | |
 | 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...and as Professor Van Millingen well maintains: The vitality and power of Constantinople are ri)oted in a unique location. Nowhere is the influence of...possibilities of complete isolation. No city can be more in and »ut of the world. It is the meeting place of some of the most important highways on the globe,... | |
 | 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...part of his description (' Byzantine Constantinople,' p. 4). ' No city owes so much to its site. . . . Nowhere is the influence of geography upon history...more in the world and out of the world. It is the meeting point of some of the most important highways on the globe, whether by sea or land ; the centre... | |
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... have been put so strikingly and freshly by Mr A. van Millingen, in his recent scientific work on the walls and gates of Constantinople, that we need not hesitate to quote a part of his description (Byzantine Constantinople, p. 4). No city owes so... 