The North American Review, Volume 4University of Northern Iowa, 1965 |
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Page 292
... earth , ( whose powerfull presence overlooks all the foure quarters of the earth ; who prefers sometimes the most simple to his works of honor , before the grand Epicures of the world , as the lillies of the field before the ...
... earth , ( whose powerfull presence overlooks all the foure quarters of the earth ; who prefers sometimes the most simple to his works of honor , before the grand Epicures of the world , as the lillies of the field before the ...
Page 340
... earth , but the tower , chiefly of earth , which was retained in its place by a vast wall of sun - dried bricks ; the outer part or facing of which , was composed of such as had undergone the operation of fire . Strabo says , that the ...
... earth , but the tower , chiefly of earth , which was retained in its place by a vast wall of sun - dried bricks ; the outer part or facing of which , was composed of such as had undergone the operation of fire . Strabo says , that the ...
Page 343
... earth , where they are found in layers ; -but may not this earth be the mass , which Della Valle describes , as being composed of sun - dri- ed bricks ? It is certain that the ruin named Aggarkuf , near Bagdad , which seems to possess ...
... earth , where they are found in layers ; -but may not this earth be the mass , which Della Valle describes , as being composed of sun - dri- ed bricks ? It is certain that the ruin named Aggarkuf , near Bagdad , which seems to possess ...
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