Monumenta Antiqua: Or, The Stone Monuments of Antiquity Yet Remaining in the British Isles, Particularly as Illustrated by Scripture. Also a Dissertation on Stonehenge: Together with a Compendious Account of the Druids. To which are Added Conjectures on the Origin and Design of the Pyramids of Egypt, and of the Round Towers of IrelandJ. B. Nichols & Son, 1840 - 199 pages |
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... Pliny , and Virgil , all Roman authors , speak of these lustra- tions by fire , and the latter , as translated by Dry- den , on a particular occasion , represents a person addressing Apollo , the sun , thus : Oh patron of Soractes ...
... Pliny , and Virgil , all Roman authors , speak of these lustra- tions by fire , and the latter , as translated by Dry- den , on a particular occasion , represents a person addressing Apollo , the sun , thus : Oh patron of Soractes ...
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... Pliny , " Juxta Horpesa oppidum Asiæ cauter stat horrenda , una digito mobilis : eadem , si toto corpore impellatur resistans . " That is , " near Horpesa , a town of Asia , there stands a dreadful rock , moveable with one finger ; the ...
... Pliny , " Juxta Horpesa oppidum Asiæ cauter stat horrenda , una digito mobilis : eadem , si toto corpore impellatur resistans . " That is , " near Horpesa , a town of Asia , there stands a dreadful rock , moveable with one finger ; the ...
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... Pliny . The former declares , that 66 a numerous fleet assembled at Crete , the object of which was Spain ; " and it seems that the southern and western parts of it became the source of Phoenician wealth , and the principal seat of its ...
... Pliny . The former declares , that 66 a numerous fleet assembled at Crete , the object of which was Spain ; " and it seems that the southern and western parts of it became the source of Phoenician wealth , and the principal seat of its ...
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... Pliny , too , declares , that Gades , now Cadiz , was peopled from the Tyrians . With these testimonies Heeren agrees , who shews that " the most lively inter- course with Spain existed in the most flourishing period of Tyre , and of ...
... Pliny , too , declares , that Gades , now Cadiz , was peopled from the Tyrians . With these testimonies Heeren agrees , who shews that " the most lively inter- course with Spain existed in the most flourishing period of Tyre , and of ...
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... Pliny says , " the Phoenician nation was so eminent for science and learning , for the first invention of letters , and for their knowledge in astrology , navigation , and mar- tial skill . + And since , when , according to Je- rome ...
... Pliny says , " the Phoenician nation was so eminent for science and learning , for the first invention of letters , and for their knowledge in astrology , navigation , and mar- tial skill . + And since , when , according to Je- rome ...
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