 | Edmund Burke - History - 1779 - 750 pages
...Rome, and flourilhed more than one hundred and fifty years in the fubordinate though honourable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining infcriptions, that the wealthy Palmyrenians conJlrufted thofe temples, palaces, and porticos of Grecian... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 638 pages
...Rome, and £ouri(hed more than one hundred and fifty years in the fubordinate though honourable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining infcriptions, that the wealthy PaJmyrentans confirufled thcfe temples, palaces, and porticos, of Grecian... | |
 | History - 1788 - 642 pages
...Rome, and flourimed more than one hundred and ñfty years in the Subordinate though honourable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining ¡nfcriptioos, that the wealthy Palmyrcnians conftrudled tkcfe temples, palaces, and porticos, of Grecian... | |
 | History - 1788 - 638 pages
...Rome, and flouriflied more than one hundred and fifty years in the fubordinare though honourable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining infcriptions, tbt the wealthy Palmyrenians confiructed thofe temples, palace:, and porticos, of Grecian... | |
 | Charles Wilkinson - Greece - 1806 - 484 pages
...that the K 3 wealthy wealthy Palmyrenians constructed those sumptuous temples, palaces, and porticoes, of Grecian architecture, whose ruins, scattered over...extent of several miles, have deserved the curiosity of so many travellers. " The elevation of Odenathus and Zenobia appeared to reflect new splendour on their... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1824 - 180 pages
...Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though honourable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge ftom a few remaining inscriptions, that the wealthy Palmyrenians constructed those temples, palaces,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1826 - 480 pages
...half. During this period, if we may judge from a fe«- remaining inscriptions, (lie wealthy Palmyrians constructed those temples, palaces, and porticos of...ruins, scattered over an extent of several miles, have struck the learned travrllrr with admiration and reverence." Among the ruins of Palmyra, which are... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 362 pages
...into the bosom of Home, and flourished more than 150 years in the subordinate though honourable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if...miles, have deserved the curiosity of our travellers." — Decline and Fall, ch. xi. sians. We do not meet with Palmyra again until the reign of Gallienus,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Geography - 1838 - 480 pages
...half. During this period, if we may judge from a few remaimng inscriptions, the wealthy Palmyrians constructed those temples, palaces, and porticos of...ruins, scattered over an extent of several miles, have struck the leamed traveller with admiration and reverence." Among the ruins of Palmyra, which are dispersed... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1839 - 604 pages
...of Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though humble rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if...miles, have deserved the curiosity of our travellers." — Decline and Fall, Stc. Vol ip 345. Architectural chronology must be a much more exact science than... | |
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Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though honorable rank of a colony. It was during that peaceful period, if we may judge from a few remaining inscriptions, that the wealthy Palmyrenians constructed those temples,... 
