The Quarterly Review, Volumen16John Murray, 1817 |
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... feet , nor its breadth four hundred . Mr. Legh thinks , from the present state of these temples , that the system of building among the ancient Egyptians was first to construct great masses , and afterwards to labour for ages in ...
... feet , nor its breadth four hundred . Mr. Legh thinks , from the present state of these temples , that the system of building among the ancient Egyptians was first to construct great masses , and afterwards to labour for ages in ...
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... feet high , of a handsome person , half drunk with araki , a spirit distilled from dates . He asked them boisterously what they wanted , and why they came to Dehr ? This was but a discouraging reception from a man who had 300 armed ...
... feet high , of a handsome person , half drunk with araki , a spirit distilled from dates . He asked them boisterously what they wanted , and why they came to Dehr ? This was but a discouraging reception from a man who had 300 armed ...
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... feet ; its front ninety feet , and its depth at the base eighteen feet . The space between that and the temple forty - eight feet ; the temple itself eighty - four feet in length , thirty in breadth , and twenty - four in height . Many ...
... feet ; its front ninety feet , and its depth at the base eighteen feet . The space between that and the temple forty - eight feet ; the temple itself eighty - four feet in length , thirty in breadth , and twenty - four in height . Many ...
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... feet long by 100 broad ; and he measured a single cubical block of stone whose side was eighteen feet . This enormous mass , exceeding 400 tons in weight , was supported by a small column of soft white stone three feet in diameter . The ...
... feet long by 100 broad ; and he measured a single cubical block of stone whose side was eighteen feet . This enormous mass , exceeding 400 tons in weight , was supported by a small column of soft white stone three feet in diameter . The ...
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... feet , the parts in good propor- 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 ...
... feet , the parts in good propor- 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 ...
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