Pleasure of RuinsWalker, 1966 - 466 pages |
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Page 229
... thousand palaces , four thousand baths , four hundred theatres , and forty thousand Jews . How and when the palaces perished is not certain ; the Arabs did their share , and the walls and later city were built out of the destruction of ...
... thousand palaces , four thousand baths , four hundred theatres , and forty thousand Jews . How and when the palaces perished is not certain ; the Arabs did their share , and the walls and later city were built out of the destruction of ...
Page 257
... thousand years for rediscovery , beside the ruinous medieval hamlet of San Martì , itself built over Palaeopolis ... thousand five hundred years ago , and has been a dead city for a thousand years . Italica , created two thousand two ...
... thousand years for rediscovery , beside the ruinous medieval hamlet of San Martì , itself built over Palaeopolis ... thousand five hundred years ago , and has been a dead city for a thousand years . Italica , created two thousand two ...
Page 393
... thousand years has taught him , happens every hundred years or so they can very easily and precisely be repeated , and will seem , on the contrary , never to have been injured . ( Indeed , a notable fault of Chinese architecture as well ...
... thousand years has taught him , happens every hundred years or so they can very easily and precisely be repeated , and will seem , on the contrary , never to have been injured . ( Indeed , a notable fault of Chinese architecture as well ...
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