 | English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along. Thousands' of men, women, ajid children, pulled by each cable, crowding so closely, that some could... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Sermons - 1811 - 302 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody color. • His arms are... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 432 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour. His arms are of... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 304 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour. His arms are of... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour. His arms are of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...the size and length of a ship's cable, by which the 1811. Buchanan'; Christian Researches in Asia. 451 the people drew it along. Upon the tower were the... | |
 | 1811 - 438 pages
...deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderou* machine. Attached to it were six cables, of the ?i»e and length of a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along. Upon the tower were the piiosts and satellites of the idol, surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 290 pages
...height, resting on " wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they " turned slowly under the pondefous machine. Attached " to it were six cables, of the size and length of a sRip's " cable, by which the people drew it along. Upon " the tower were the priests and satellites... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under Uie ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of the size and • ugth of a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along. Upon the tower were the priests and... | |
 | Missions - 1811 - 568 pages
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground .deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage, painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour. His arms are of... | |
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The throne of the idol was placed on a stupendous car or tower about sixty feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of the size and length of... 
