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" Europe, as not long before repair'd by the king,) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining intire but the inscription in the architrave, shewing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defac'd. "
The Diary of John Evelyn - Page 259
by John Evelyn - 1906
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Old St. Paul's Cathedral

William Benham - Fiction - 1902 - 166 pages
...beautifull portico (for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long before repair'd by the late King) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing now remaining intire but the inscription in the architrave, shewing by whom it was built, which had...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 9

John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 532 pages
...portico — for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long before repair'd by the late king — now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining intire but the inscription in the architrave, showing by whom it was built, which had not one letter...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...any in Europe, as not long before repaired by the late King, now rent in pieces, flakes of vast 130 stone split asunder, and nothing remaining entire...not one letter of it defaced. It was astonishing to 135 see what immense stones the heat had in a manner calcined, so that all the ornaments, columns,...
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The Diary of John Evelyn, Esquire, F. R. S.

John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1906 - 846 pages
...vast stone split asunder, »nd nothing remaining intire but the inscription in the architrave, shewing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defac'd. It was astonishing to see what immense stones the heate had in a manner calcin'd, so that...
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Sir Christopher Wren

Lena Milman - Architects - 1908 - 520 pages
...of vast Stones split asunder, and nothing remaining entire but the Inscription on the Architrave J showing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defac'd . . . the ruins of the vaulted Roofe falling in broke into S. Faith's which being filled with...
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Samuel Pepys, Administrator, Observer, Gossip

Esther Meynell - Authors, English - 1909 - 396 pages
...beautiful portico (for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long before repair'd by the late King) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining intire but the inscription in the architrave, shewing by whom it was built, which had not one letter...
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An Anthology of English Prose: (1332 to 1740)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 268 pages
...beautifull portico (for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long before repair'd by the late King) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder,...remaining entire but the inscription in the architrave, shewing by whom it was built, which had not one letter of it defaced. It was astonishing to see what...
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The Churches of the City of London

Herbert Reynolds - Church buildings - 1922 - 270 pages
...beautiful portico (for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long before repaired by the King) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder,...inscription in the architrave showing by whom it was built.' * The noble pile that to-day rises before us and dominates all the other buildings in the City was...
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The Outline of Literature, Volume 2

John Drinkwater - Literature - 1923 - 528 pages
...portico (for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long before repair 'd by the late King), now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining intire but the inscription in the architrave, shewing by whom it was built, which had not one letter...
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The Chobham Book of English Prose

Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...beautifull portico (for structure comparable to any in Europe, as not long repaired by the late King) now rent in pieces, flakes of vast stone split asunder, and nothing remaining intire, but the inscription in the architrave, shewing by whom it was built, which had not one letter...
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