 | Edward Robinson, Eli Smith - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...the wonder of future generations, until barbarism and earthquakes shall have done their last work. In vastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and...those of Thebes, but far excel them in airiness and grace. Yet the very elaborate and ornate character of the structures appears to militate against the... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 716
...the wonder of future generations, until barbarism and earthquakes shall have done their last work. In vastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and...those of Thebes, but far excel them in airiness and grace. Yet the very elaborate and ornate character of the structures appears to militate against the... | |
 | 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 736
...the wonder of future generations, until barbarism and earthquakes shall have done their last work. In vastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and...those of Thebes, but far excel them in airiness and grace. Yet the very elaborate and ornate character of the structures appears to militate against the... | |
 | Eli Smith - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 708
...the wonder of future generations, until barbarism and earthquakes shall have done their last work. In vastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and...those of Thebes, but far excel them in airiness and grace. Yet the very elaborate and ornate character of the structures appears to militate against the... | |
 | Eli Smith - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 706
...of future generations, until barbarism and earthquakes shall have done their last work. In rastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and delicacy...those of Thebes, but far excel them in airiness and grace. Yet the very elaborate and ornate character of the structures appears to militate against the... | |
 | American Tract Society - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...lying twenty feet above the ground. The temples are of Roman origin; and 189 II EL HE It in vnstness of plan, combined with elaborateness and delicacy of execution, they seem to surpass all others in the world. '•They are like those of Athens for lightness, but far surpass them in vastness; they... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1863 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...them at once a physical landmark and a historical monument which no notice of Syria ought to omit. ' In vastness of plan combined with ' elaborateness and delicacy of execution, they seemed to sur' pass all others in Western Asia, in Africa, and in Europe.' ' The ranges of columns... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...ought to omit. "In vastnes of plan combined with elaborateness and delicacy of execution, they seemed to surpass all others in Western Asia, in Africa, and in Europe." The ranges of columns2 which give to the edifices their peculiar grace belong to the same age of later... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...them at once a physical landmark and a historical monument which no notice of Syria can omit. " In3 vastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and...others in Western Asia, in Africa, and in Europe." The ranges of columns which give their peculiar grace to the edifices, belong Baalbek. 1 Early travellers... | |
 | Henry Martyn Harman - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...the wonder of future generations, until barbarism and earthquakes shall have done their last work. In vastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and...those of Thebes, but far excel them in airiness and grace." The materials of the temples are for the most part limestone. The great temple, as appears... | |
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In vastness of plan, combined with elaborateness and delicacy of execution, they seem to surpass all others in Western Asia, in Africa, and in Europe. They are like those of Athens in lightness, but surpass them far in vastness ; they are vast and massive... 
