The gems of masonry : emblematic and descriptive (1859)
Sherer, John · Cincinnati : The Author · leaf 44
espect, veneration, and fraternal tenderness, on the one hand,and to remind us, on the other, that although time may lay inruins all earthly grandeur, and deface the loveliness of all terres-trial beauty, there is imperisliable grandeur, unfading beauty,and eternal happiness above.— Compiler THIRD… … This famous fabric was supported by fourteen hundred andfifty-three columns, and two thousand nine hundred and sixpilasters ; all hewn from the finest Parian marble. There wereemployed in its building, three Grand Masters ; three thousandand three hundred masters, or overseers of the work ;…
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