It is difficult to say where this system of depredation, so sacrilegious in the opinion of the antiquary, would have stopped, had not Benedict XIV., a pontiff of great judgment, erected a cross in the centre of the arena, and declared the place sacred,... A Classical Tour Through Italy, An. MDCCCII - Page 375by John Chetwode Eustace - 1817Full view - About this book
| John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1813 - 720 pages
...astra ferant. Omnis Caesareo cedat labor amphitheatro Unum pro eunctin fama loquatar opus. Itr Sped. was erected by the above-mentioned emperors, out of...description of this species of edifice, so well known to the classic reader; it will suffice to say, that the arch of Constantine is the only one that remains entire,... | |
| John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1818 - 524 pages
...every rich and powerful citizen wished to have, not a commodious dwelling merely, but a palace. Tiie Coliseum was an immense quarry at hand; the common...returned to the Meta Sudans and passed under the arch of Gonstantine. I need not give a description of this species of edifice so well known to the reader -t... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...dwelling merely, but a palace. The Coliseum was an immense quarry at baud ; the common people stole, th grandees obtained permission to carry off its materials,...transmit them in their present state to posterity. We then ascended the Palatine Mount, after having walked round its base in order to examine its bearings.... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...would have stopped, had not Benedict XIV., a pontif ' of great judgment, erected a cross in the center of the arena, and declared the place sacred, out of...transmit them in their present state to posterity. 14. We then ascended the Palatine Mount, after having walked around its base in order to examine its... | |
| Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...cross in the centre, of the arena (which will be seen in the engraving at the head of this article), and declared the place sacred out of respect to the...This declaration, if issued two or three centuries earlier, would have preserved the Coliseum entire ; ii can now only protect its remains and transmit... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...center of the arena, and declared th« place sacred, out of respect to the blood of the many mar tyrs who were butchered there during the persecutions.—...transmit them in their present state to posterity. 14. We then asc?ifleJ the Palatine Mount, after having walked around its base i:i order to examine... | |
| John Chetwode Eustace - Italy - 1837 - 426 pages
...the place sacred, out of respect to the blood of the many martyrs who were butchered there during \he persecutions. This declaration, if issued two or three...protect its remains, and transmit them in their present stale to posterity. We next returned to the Meta Sudans and passed under the arch of Constantine. I... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 316 pages
...judgment. erected a cross in the center of the arena, and declared the place sacred, out of respect to lhe blood of the many martyrs who were butchered there...transmit them in their present state to posterity. 14. We then ascended the Palatine Mount; after having walked around its base in order to examine us... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...XIV., a pontiffof great judgment, erected a cross in the centre of the arena, and declared the plnce sacred, out of respect to the blood of the many martyrs...three centuries ago, would have preserved the Coliseum enlire ; it can now only protect its remains, and transmit them in their present state to posterity.... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...This declaration, if issued two or thiee centuries ago, would have preserved the Coliseum enlire ; it can now only protect its remains, and transmit them in their present state to posterity. We then ascended the Palatine Mount, after having walked round its base in order to examine its bearings.... | |
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