Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, المجلد 1Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company, 1882 |
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adorned Alexandria American Amsterdam ancient architecture army Avenue Ballarat beautiful Bosphorus Boston Bridge bronze building built Byzas canals Cathedral celebrated cemetery centre century Chapel Christian Church of St columns commerce Constantinople crowded Doge dome Dutch edifice Emperor England erected Europe famous feet French Galata Galata Bridge galleries gardens gate Golden Horn Gothic grand granite Greek Haarlem Hall handsome harbour Hill Holland honour houses hundred inhabitants interesting Island King land London Louis Louis XIV Ludgate Hill magnificent Manhattan marble Melbourne miles modern Mohammed II monument mosques Museum Napoleon nearly occupied palace Paris Park Pera Petter picturesque ports Prince Renaissance architecture river Roman Rome Rotterdam royal scene School Sea of Marmora Seraglio ships shore side splendour square stands statue stone story streets suburbs Temple thousand tower town Tuileries vast Venetian Venice vessels Vienna walls York
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الصفحة 95 - Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under foot.
الصفحة 94 - Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream ; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together ; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst of them drink from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption ; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful pictures lead always at last...
الصفحة 234 - I sincerely believe that the public institutions and charities of this capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity, can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation of happiness, under circumstances of privation and bereavement, than in my visits to these establishments.
الصفحة 15 - To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed For our advantage on the bitter cross...
الصفحة 93 - What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly in the recesses of the chapels; the roof sheeted with gold, and the polished walls covered with alabaster, give back at every curve and angle some feeble gleaming to the flames...
الصفحة 150 - For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
الصفحة 93 - ... there opens before us a vast cave, hewn out into the form of a cross, and divided into shadowy aisles by many pillars. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars ; and here and there a ray or two from some far-away casement wanders into the darkness, and casts a narrow phosphoric stream upon the waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor.
الصفحة 74 - Christians set up a shout of joy and exultation, whilst the unfortunate Pagans, whose fury had given way to consternation, retired with hasty and silent steps, and eluded, by their flight or obscurity, the resentment of their enemies. Theophilus proceeded to demolish the temple of Serapis, without any other difficulties than those which he found in the weight and solidity of the materials; but these obstacles proved so insuperable that he was obliged to leave the foundations and to content himself...
الصفحة 230 - To the men of Boston who died for their country on land and sea in the war which kept the Union whole, destroyed slavery and maintained the Constitution, the grateful city has built this monument that their example may speak to coming generations.
الصفحة 94 - ... crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together, and the mystery of its redemption, for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful pictures lead always at last to the Cross, lifted and carved in every place and upon every stone ; sometimes with the serpent of eternity wrapped round it, sometimes with doves beneath its arms, and sweet herbage growing forth from its feet, but conspicuous most of all on the great rood that crosses the church before the altar, raised in...