A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk, Volume 2R. Marchbank, 1780 - Malta |
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... these are very great , and more like the works of a mighty and powerful people , than of so small a state . The mortars cut out of the rock are a tremendous invention . There are about fifty of them , near the different creeks VOL . II ...
... these are very great , and more like the works of a mighty and powerful people , than of so small a state . The mortars cut out of the rock are a tremendous invention . There are about fifty of them , near the different creeks VOL . II ...
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... these people , who , at all seasons of the year , venture to Sicily in these diminutive veffels ; yet it is very feldom that any accident happens ; they are so perfectly acquainted with the weather , foretelling , almost to a B 2 SICILY ...
... these people , who , at all seasons of the year , venture to Sicily in these diminutive veffels ; yet it is very feldom that any accident happens ; they are so perfectly acquainted with the weather , foretelling , almost to a B 2 SICILY ...
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... these have stood pretty much in a right line , near the south wall of the city . The first they call the temple of Venus ; almoft one half of which ftill remains . " The fecond is that of Concord : I : may be con- fidered as entire ...
... these have stood pretty much in a right line , near the south wall of the city . The first they call the temple of Venus ; almoft one half of which ftill remains . " The fecond is that of Concord : I : may be con- fidered as entire ...
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... These temples are supported by thirteen large fluted Doric columns on each fide ; and fix at each end . All their bases , capitals , entablatures , & c . ftill remain entire ; and as the architecture is perfectly fimple , without any ...
... These temples are supported by thirteen large fluted Doric columns on each fide ; and fix at each end . All their bases , capitals , entablatures , & c . ftill remain entire ; and as the architecture is perfectly fimple , without any ...
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... These two great mafter - pieces have been loft . We thought of them with regret , whilst we trod on these venerable ruins . Near to this lie ruins of the temple of Jupiter Olympus , fuppofed , by the Sicilian authors , to have been the ...
... These two great mafter - pieces have been loft . We thought of them with regret , whilst we trod on these venerable ruins . Near to this lie ruins of the temple of Jupiter Olympus , fuppofed , by the Sicilian authors , to have been the ...
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