 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1808 - 622 pages
...The collection of riddles is contained in many MSS. The oldest is the Codex Salmasianus, belonging to the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth ( century. The riddles themselves are of earlier date. Teuffel says : " Etwa a'us dem vierten bis fiinften Jahrhundert... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 624 pages
...Tiburtine People." Stanza CXLV. While stands tJle Coliseum, Some shall stand. are quoted by Mr. Gibbon l as a proof that the Coliseum was entire when seen...impossible that the amphitheatre may have been in some degree dilapidated even in that early period. The fire which, about the year 2] <), destroyed... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Fore-edge paintings - 1818 - 596 pages
...Tiburtine People." Stanza CXLV. While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand. 263 are quoted by Mr. Gibbon1 as a proof that the Coliseum was entire when seen...impossible that the amphitheatre may have been in some degree dilapidated even in that early period. The fire which, about the year 219, destroyed the... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Fore-edge paintings - 1818 - 600 pages
...CXLV. While stands the Coliseum, Borne shall stand. 263 are quoted by Mr. Gibbon' as a proof that tfae Coliseum was entire when seen by the AngloSaxon pilgrims...impossible that the amphitheatre may have been in some degree dilapidated even in that early period. The fire which, about the year 219, destroyed the... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...works rose at once'to perfection; the effect was instantly discovered to be insurpassable. a 168 Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh or the beginning...impossible that the amphitheatre may have been in some degree dilapidated even in that early period. The fire which, about the year 219, destroyed the... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...these works rose at once to perfection; the effect was instantly discovered to be insurpassable. Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh or the beginning...impossible that the amphitheatre may have been in some degree dilapidated even in that early period. The fire which, about the year 219, destroyed the... | |
 | Gift books - 1831 - 306 pages
...grandeur of the result could not be exceeded by anv subsequent attempts. It is the opinion of Mr. Gibbon that the Coliseum was entire when seen by the AngloSaxon...the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. Rome itself, however, was then partially destroyed, and it is possible that the Coliseum, which divided... | |
 | Gift books - 1831 - 310 pages
...grandeur of the result could not be exceeded by any subsequent attempts. It is the opinion of Mr. Gibbon that the Coliseum was entire when seen by the AngloSaxon pilgrims at (he end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. Rome itself, however, was then partially... | |
 | Thomas Anthony Trollope - Christianity - 1834 - 630 pages
...a sect of ancient heretics, who fasted always on a Sunday. The council of Trullo, which was holden at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth, century, censures the Roman church itself for fasting on a Sunday. The words of the canon are 'remarkable. "... | |
 | William Cooper (glass cutter.) - Glass manufacture - 1835 - 204 pages
...differ very widely, it seems probable that glass windows were first introduced into England either about the end of the seventh or the beginning of the eighth century. The use of window glass, however, was then, and for many centuries after, confined entirely to buildings... | |
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," as a proof that the Coliseum was entire, when seen by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth century. A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the " Historical Illustrations, 
