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Page viii
... ruins , and antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the bishop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon observations on the religion and governments of Italy : Lassels may be useful in giving us the ...
... ruins , and antiquities . Among the authors of our own country , we are obliged to the bishop of Salisbury , for his masterly and uncommon observations on the religion and governments of Italy : Lassels may be useful in giving us the ...
Page 28
... ruin of a triumphal arch erected to Flaminius , where one sees old Doric pillars without any pedestal or basis , as Vitruvius has described them . I have not yet seen any gar- dens in Italy worth taking notice of . The Italians fall as ...
... ruin of a triumphal arch erected to Flaminius , where one sees old Doric pillars without any pedestal or basis , as Vitruvius has described them . I have not yet seen any gar- dens in Italy worth taking notice of . The Italians fall as ...
Page 60
... ruins of an amphitheatre . The suggestum , on which it is said that Julius Cæsar harangued his army after having passed the Rubicon . I must confess I can by no means look on this last as authentic : it is built of hewn stone , like the ...
... ruins of an amphitheatre . The suggestum , on which it is said that Julius Cæsar harangued his army after having passed the Rubicon . I must confess I can by no means look on this last as authentic : it is built of hewn stone , like the ...
Page 73
... ruins of an ancient theatre , with some of the caves entire . I saw among the ruins an old heathen altar , with this particularity in it , that it is hollowed like a dish at one end ; but it was not this end on which the sacrifice was ...
... ruins of an ancient theatre , with some of the caves entire . I saw among the ruins an old heathen altar , with this particularity in it , that it is hollowed like a dish at one end ; but it was not this end on which the sacrifice was ...
Page 77
... ruins in Italy . It has no cement , and looks as firm as one entire stone . There is an arch of it un- broken , the broadest that I have ever seen , though , by reason of its great height , it does not appear so . The middle one was ...
... ruins in Italy . It has no cement , and looks as firm as one entire stone . There is an arch of it un- broken , the broadest that I have ever seen , though , by reason of its great height , it does not appear so . The middle one was ...
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