 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 506 sidor
...scale and less durable foundations.109 In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints: most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 sidor
...scale and less durable foundations. In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints: most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully... | |
 | David Porter - 1835 - 336 sidor
...monument to his fame. VOL. II. H In Constantinople, and the adjoining suburbs, Justinian dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the Saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold, grid their situations were chosen in spacious... | |
 | Joseph Gwilt - 1842 - 1114 sidor
...and the precious metals in their purity imparted splendour to the scene. Before the building was four feet out of the ground its cost had amounted to a sum equivalent to 200,000/. sterling, and the total cost of it when finished may, at the lowest computation, be reckoned as exceeding one... | |
 | William Henry Leeds - 1848 - 286 sidor
...reckoned at the lowest computation to have exceeded one million pounds ; as before the building was four feet out of the ground, its cost had amounted to a...were numerously distributed throughout the empire. * This dome is constructed of pumice-stone and very light bricks from the isle of Rhodes. To give a... | |
 | Thomas Talbot Bury - 1849 - 198 sidor
...reckoned at the lowest computation to have exceeded one million pounds ; as before the building was four feet out of the ground, its cost had amounted to a...were numerously distributed throughout the empire. To give a connected description of the architecture between the sixth and eighth centuries, would he... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 440 sidor
...scale and less durable foundations.108 In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully... | |
 | John Weale - 1859 - 622 sidor
...reckoned at the lowest computation to have exceeded one million pounds ; as before the building was four feet out of the ground, its cost had amounted to a...twenty-five churches to the , honour of Christ, the Virgin, am the Saints ; he also built a church to St. John at Cphcsus, and another to the Virgin at Jerusalem:... | |
 | Edwin Heycock - 1872 - 520 sidor
...scale, and with less durable foundations. In Constantinople alone and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold, and their various situations were skilfully... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 576 sidor
...scale and less durable foundations. 106 In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints : most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully... | |
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In Constantinople alone, and the adjacent suburbs, he dedicated twenty-five churches to the honour of Christ, the Virgin, and the saints. Most of these churches were decorated with marble and gold ; and their various situation was skilfully chosen in... 
