 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1774 - 536 pages
...feet) on every fide, ar were carried up aloft into the air, in the manner of fever large terrafles, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The afcent was from terrafs to terrafs, fay flairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was fuftained by 'vaft... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...is, four hundred feet on every side, and were carried up aloft into the air, in the manner of several large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of city. (This was 350 feet.) The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole... | |
 | Elijah Parish - Bible - 1813 - 538 pages
...being 400 feet long. They were carried up into the air in the mann er of several large terrassess, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrass to terras:* by stairs, ten feet wide, and the whole pile was sustained... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1820 - 386 pages
...(that is, of 400 feet) on every side, and were carried up aloft into the air in the manner of several large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to ter,-. a Diod I. ii p 99, 97. race, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole... | |
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1827 - 748 pages
...(four hundred feet) on every side, and were carried up aloft into the air, in the manner of several large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained on vast... | |
 | P. Austin Nuttall - Archaeology - 1840 - 722 pages
...containing a square of four hundred feet on every side, and being carried up in the manner of several large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that of the -walls of the city. Amvtis, the wife of Nebuchadnezzar, having been bred in Media, (for she was the daughter of Astyages,... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1841 - 800 pages
...Greeks. They contained a square of 400 feet on every side, and were carried up in the manner of several large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained by vast... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1841 - 362 pages
...Greeks. They contained a square of 400 feet on every side, and were carried up in the manner of several large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was sustained by vast... | |
 | Gustaf Clemens Hebbe - History, Ancient - 1848 - 592 pages
...These gardens contained a square of four hundred feet on each side, and are described as rising in terraces one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs ten feet wide. The whole pile was supported by a... | |
 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1848 - 598 pages
...celebrated hanging gardens. They «contained a square of 400 feet, on every side, and were carried aloft in the manner of large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that И:Г the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace, by stairs 10 feet wide. The whole... | |
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They contained a square of 400 feet on every side, and were carried up in the manner of several large terraces, one above another, till the height equalled that of the walls of the city. The ascent was from terrace to terrace by stairs ten feet wide.... 
