 | 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...first heard at midnight, and describes as yielding the finest and most solemn tono he ever heard ; ' when it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates...over Moscow, like the fullest and lowest tones of 3 vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder. It is forty feet nine inches in circumference, sixteen... | |
 | Thomas Martin (civil engineer.) - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...cathedral is only used on important occasions, and yields the finest and most solemn tone I ever heard. When it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates...bell is suspended in a tower called the Belfry of St. Isan, beneath others which though of less size are enormous. It is forty feet nine inches in circumference,... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...their appearance upon the most beautiful English and Turkish horses, riding, as they all maintain, <J TAnglois, but without the smallest resemblance to...forty feet nine inches in circumference ; sixteen inches and a half thick ; and it weighs more than fifty-seven tons1. (I) 3551 Russian pouds, ^'oyage... | |
 | William Shipway - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...tons. This bell is only tolled on important occasions, and yields the most solemn tone ever heard. When it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates...of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder. The Chinese have also bells of great magnitude : those of Nankin, by their weight, brought down the... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...near the cathedral is only used on important occasions, and yields the most solemn tone I ever heard. When it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates...fullest and lowest tones of a vast organ; or the rolling «f distant thunder. This bell is suspended in a tower called The Belfry of St. Ivan, beneath others,... | |
 | Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...in circumference, and sixteen inches and a half thick. It is used on important occasions only, and when it sounds a deep and hollow murmur vibrates all...of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder. lu Russia it has always been esteemed a meritorious act of religion to present a church with bells,... | |
 | R. S. Kirby - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...in circumference, and sixteen inches and a half thick. It is used on important occasions only, and when it sounds a deep and hollow murmur vibrates all...of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder. In Russia it has always been esteemed a meritorious act of religion to present a church with bells,... | |
 | 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...thick. It is used on important occasions only, and when it sounds a deep and hollow murmur vibrate* all over Moscow, like the fullest and lowest tones...of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder. In Russia it has always been esteemed a meritorious act of religion to present a church with bells,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...that Dr. Clarke ever heard. When it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates through the whole city, like the fullest and lowest tones of a vast organ, or the rolling of distant thunder. It is forty feet nine inches in circumference, and sixteen inches and a half thick. The Kremlin is... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...properly suspended. It may be said of the New Bell, as Dr. Clarke said of the Bolshoi, that its sound " vibrates all over Moscow like the fullest and lowest...organ, or the rolling of distant thunder." This bell is covered with figures in relief, representing the late Emperor Alexander, his Empress, and the Dowager... | |
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The large bell near the cathedral is only used on important occasions, and yields the finest and most solemn tone I ever heard. When it sounds, a deep and hollow murmur vibrates all over Moscow, like the fullest and lowest tones of a vast organ, or the... 
