The dimenfions of this gate are forty feet in width, fixty high, and forty-eight thick, at the foundation. In the front are two rows of fmall windows, and the remains of fteps in, its fides, leading to its fummit. This gate, fo mafly as to appear indeftructible,... Letters on Egypt: Containing, a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient ... - Pàgina 37per Savary (M., Claude Etienne) - 1787Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1787 - 712 pàgines
...this gate are, 40 feet in width, 60 high, and 48 thick st the foundation. In the front are two row s of fmall windows, and the remains of fteps in its...leading to its fummit. This gate, fo mafl'y as to appear indeftniftible, is in the p.iftic ftyle, without hieroglyphics, ami magnificent in fimplicity. Through... | |
| 1788 - 524 pàgines
...lealt from time, and the outrages of barbarians, faces the weft. Before it is a long fphinx-avenue. The dimenfions of this gate are forty feet in width,...the remains of fteps in its fides, leading to its iummit. This gate, fo malfy as to appear indeftruetible, is in the ruftic Itile, without hieroglyphics,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1788 - 556 pàgines
...leaft from time, and the outrages of barbarians, faces the weft. Before it is a long fphinx-avenue. The dimenfions of this gate are forty feet in width,...thick at the foundation. In the front are two rows of fmaîl windows, and the remains of fteps in, its fides, leading to its fummit. This gate, fo mafly... | |
| William Williams - 1789 - 692 pàgines
...prefervation faces the welt. Before it is a .long Sphinx avenue. This gate is 60 feet high, 40 wide, 48 thick, at the foundation. In the front are two rows of fmall windows, and remains of fteps in its fides leading to its (utamit. This gate is in the ruftic ftile, and has no... | |
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