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The lost solar system of the ancients discovered. [With] Appendix - Page 209
by John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) - 1856
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 1

1821 - 438 pages
...outside of this temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being slsty feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty-feet. There are four enormous sitting colossi...
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids ...

Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pages
...outside of this temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 15; Volume 33

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 pages
...outside of this temple it magnificent. It isa hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six t'eet high : the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixtysix feet, and the height of the door twenty. There are four enormem sitting colossi, the largest...
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The British review and London critical journal

1821 - 536 pages
...outside of this temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixtysix feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting colossi,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 24

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pages
...temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the heighth from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 24

1821 - 602 pages
...temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the heighth from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, aiul the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting...
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Il Conte di Carmagnola: tragedia di Alessandro Manzoni, Milano, 1820 ...

1821 - 598 pages
...temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the heighth from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting...
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Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the ..., Volume 1

Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pages
...outside of this temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting...
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A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious Account of All the Proper Names ...

John Lemprière - 1825 - 848 pages
...adorned with colossal statues. The outside of the temple is 117 feet wide, and 86 feet high. In front there are four enormous sitting colossi, the largest...pyramids, to which they approach in the proportion of about two thirds. To return to Meroe, the Jesuit fathers who resided long in that country, affirmed...
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Foreign Topography: Or, An Encyclopedick Account, Alphabetically Arranged ...

Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1828 - 428 pages
...corner from the frontdoor. The outside of this temple is magnificent. It is 117 feet wide and 86 feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the...and the height of the door 20 feet. There are four sitting Colossi, the largest in Egypt or Nubia, except the great Sphinx at the Pyramids, to which they...
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