The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1817 |
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... tion , being superior in splendour to any that our travellers had met with in Turkey . Of the Slave - market we shall allow Mr. Legh to speak for himself . ' We visited also the Slave - market , where , to say nothing of the moral ...
... tion , being superior in splendour to any that our travellers had met with in Turkey . Of the Slave - market we shall allow Mr. Legh to speak for himself . ' We visited also the Slave - market , where , to say nothing of the moral ...
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... tion , a particular account of the Memnonian statue , which , in spite of the attestations , Cambyses is said to have previously thrown down . Denon , however , following Herodotus and Strabo , maintains that the two sitting figures are ...
... tion , a particular account of the Memnonian statue , which , in spite of the attestations , Cambyses is said to have previously thrown down . Denon , however , following Herodotus and Strabo , maintains that the two sitting figures are ...
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... tion , and differing chiefly in magnitude . This seems to have been the case with Denon's feelings , who exclaims rather petulantly among the ruins of Thebes , ' Still temples , nothing but temples ! no walls , quays , bridges , baths ...
... tion , and differing chiefly in magnitude . This seems to have been the case with Denon's feelings , who exclaims rather petulantly among the ruins of Thebes , ' Still temples , nothing but temples ! no walls , quays , bridges , baths ...
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... tion to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , ast well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately under the tropic , he fixes the precise era when astrono- my was in the most flourishing ...
... tion to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , ast well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately under the tropic , he fixes the precise era when astrono- my was in the most flourishing ...
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... tion and well cut : allowing , therefore , seven heads for the length of the whole figure , its height , if in a standing posture , must have been equal to eighty - four feet ; a height far exceeding that of the supposed £ 2 statue ...
... tion and well cut : allowing , therefore , seven heads for the length of the whole figure , its height , if in a standing posture , must have been equal to eighty - four feet ; a height far exceeding that of the supposed £ 2 statue ...
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