 | Herodotus - 1812 - 468 pagine
...admiration, and the pyramids may individually be compared to many of the magnificent struc . tures of Greece, but even these are inferior to the labyrinth. It is...fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and as many beneath, in all three thousand. Of the former I speak from my own knowledge and observation ;... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pagine
...admiration, and the pyramids may individually be compared to many of the magnificent structures of Greece, but even these are inferior to the labyrinth. It is...fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and as many beneath, in all three thousand. Of the former I speak from my own knowledge and observation ;... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 654 pagine
...admiration, and the Pyramids may individually be compared to many of the magnificent structures of Greece ; but even these are inferior to the Labyrinth. It is...fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and as many beneath, — in all three thousand. Of the former, I speak from my own knowledge and observation... | |
 | 1829 - 666 pagine
...individually be compared to many of the magnificent structures of Greece ; bnt even these are inferior to 1he Labyrinth. It is 'composed of twelve Courts, all of...fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and ns many beneath, — in all three thousand. Of the former, I speak from my own knowledge and observation... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 346 pagine
...admiration, and the pyramids may individually be compared to many of the magnificent structures of Greece; but even these are inferior to the labyrinth. It is...other, six to the north and six to the south ; one wall incloses the whole; the apartments are of two kinds ; there are fifteen hundred above the surface of... | |
 | Herodotus - 1830 - 472 pagine
...admiration, and the pyramids may individually be compared to many of the magnificent structures of Greece, but even these are inferior to the labyrinth. It is...other, six to the north and six to the south ; one wall incloses the whole ; the apartments are of two kinds, there are fifteen hundred above the surface of... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 pagine
...temples of E|>besus and Samos may justly claim admiration, and the Pyramids may individually lie compaied to many of the magnificent structures erected by the...six to the north, and six to the south ; one wall enclos« the whole. The apartment« »re of 338 REVIEW. — FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. two kinds ; there... | |
 | 1831 - 616 pagine
...the magnificent structures erected by the Greeks ; but even these are inferior to the Laby. rinth. It is composed of twelve courts, all of which are...six to the north, and six to the south ; one wall enclose» the whole. The apartment» are of 338 REVIEW. FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY. p la two kinds ;... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1835 - 356 pagine
...in some places was found twenty-three feet deep. Tamieh, which formerly etood on the edge of Mceris, is now six miles from it, — an additional proof...fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and as many beneath, — in all three thousand. Of the former, I can speak from my own knowledge and observation... | |
 | 1842 - 358 pagine
...be imagined that they were placed in the Jeep basin formed by nature, and which is still occupied hy the Birket-el-Karoun, but rather in that division...fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and aa many beneath, — in all three thousand. Of the former, I can speak from my own knowledge and observation... | |
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Greece much inferior to this, both in regard to the workmanship and expense. The temples of Ephesus and Samos may justly claim admiration, and the Pyramids may individually be compared to many of the magnificent structures of Greece, but even these are... 
