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Manual of Classical Literature - Page 166
by Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1855 - 690 pages
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Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Greece, Egypt, and ...

Edward Daniel Clarke - Europe - 1817 - 658 pages
...the narrow passage, might creep along until he arrived immediately behind the centre of the altar; where, being hid by some colossal statue or other...sanctuary. We amused ourselves for a few minutes, by endeavouring to mimic the sort of solemn farce acted upon these occasions: and as we delivered a mock...
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Foreign Topography: Or, An Encyclopedick Account, Alphabetically Arranged ...

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - Archaeology - 1828 - 428 pages
...the narrow passage, might creep along until he arrived immediately behind the centre of the altar, where being hid by some colossal statue or other screen,...listening in silence upon the floor of the sanctuary. There are also remains of an aqueduct, and appearances of subterraneous passages. A large Church at...
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Winter evenings at college, a description of the manners [&c.] of the ...

Benjamin Thomas H. Cole - 1829 - 288 pages
...or other screen, he might, by uttering some preconcerted answer, produce a most imposing effect upon the humble votaries prostrate beneath, who were listening in silence upon the floor of the sanctuary. My friend and his companions amused themselves by endeavouring to mimic the solemn farce formerly acted...
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Classical Antiquities: Being Part of the Manual of Classical Literature

Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Classical antiquities - 1837 - 372 pages
...the narrow passage, might creep along until he arrived immediately behind the centre of the altar; where being hid by some colossal statue or other screen,...would produce a most imposing effect among the humble votiries, prostrate beneath, who were listening in silence upon the floor of the sanctuary. We amused...
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Ruins of Ancient Cities: With General and Particular Accounts of ..., Volume 1

Charles Bucke - Cities and towns, Ancient - 1841 - 370 pages
...the narrow passage, might creep along until he arrived immediately behind the centre of the altar ; where, being hid by some colossal statue or other...listening in silence upon the floor of the sanctuary." Argos was consecrated to Juno :* it was subject to different forms of government ; its people were...
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Manual of Classical Literature

Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art - 1841 - 806 pages
...until he arrived immediately behind the centre of the altar ; where, being hid by some colosaal statqe or other screen, the sound of his voice would produce...votaries, prostrate beneath, who were listening in •ilencc upon the floor of the sanctuary. We amused ourselves for a few minutes by endeavoring to...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulics - 1842 - 638 pages
...large enough to admit the entrance of a single person, who could creep along to the back of the altar, where being hid by some colossal statue, or other...voice would produce a most imposing effect among the listening votaries." Antiq. 33. It is a curious fact that conjurers and chiefs among American Indians,...
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A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for ...

Thomas Ewbank - Hydraulic machinery - 1842 - 608 pages
...large enough to admix the entrance of a single person, who could creep along to the back of the altar, where being hid by some colossal statue, or other...voice would produce a most imposing effect among the listening votaries." Antiq. 33. It is a curious fact that conjurers and chiefs among American Indians,...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 54

1851 - 650 pages
...the narrow passage, might creep along until he arrived immediately behind the centre of the altar; where being hid by some colossal statue or other screen,...sanctuary. We amused ourselves for a few minutes by endeavouring to mimic the sort of solemn farce acted upon these occasions; and as we delivered a mock...
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Manual of Classical Literature

Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art, Ancient - 1845 - 788 pages
...center of the altar ; where, being hid by •nine colossal statue or other screen, the sound of bis voice would produce a most imposing effect among the...listening in silence upon the floor of the sanctuary. We aroused ourselves for a few minutes by endeavoring to mimic tbe solemn farce acted upon these occasions...
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