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History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)

Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 115

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hundred and twenty in breadth,and seventy feet in height. This splendid edifice, towhich all the Grecian colonies contributed, was wan-tonly burnt, the same night on which Alexander theGreat was born. The object of the villain, who per-petrated the deed, was to render himself famousthroughout all… … 94 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. had been standing for about four hundred years, whenSt. Paul preached to the Ephesians, and filled thewhole city with confusion. The pure gospel, whichthe Apostle declared unto them, would lead to theentire destruction of the worship of the great God-dess Diana; instead,…

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