| William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 714 oldal
...thatched with straw ! The interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration. lt was litlerally a mine of gold. On the western wall was emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting of a human countenance looking forth from amidst innumerable rays of light which emanated from it in every... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 350 oldal
...it.1 Yet this substantial, and in some respects magnificent structure, was thatched with straw ! The interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration. It was laterally a mine of gold. On the western wall was emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1850 - 380 oldal
...presenter la primera parte de mi Cronica al Principe Dn Felipe." — Sarmiento, Relacion, MS., cap. xxiy. admiration. It was literally a mine of gold. On the...emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting of a human countenance looking forth from amidst innumerable rays of light which emanated from it in every... | |
| 1850 - 682 oldal
...Misfionary Association of Haß.«. — John, xii. 15. THE GREAT TEMPLE OF ТПЕ SUN DJ" OLD PERU. " The interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration. It was literally a mine of gold. Un the western wall was emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting of a human countenance... | |
| 1851 - 658 oldal
...Instinct in the Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine for 1848. THE GREAT TEMPLE OF THE SUN IN OLD PERU. Тнв interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration....emblazoned a representation of the Deity, consisting of a human countenance looking forth from amidst innumerable rays of light which emanated from it in every... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 oldal
...before the cupidity of the Spaniards had quite despoiled them of their original magnificence : — ' The interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration....emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting of a human countenance looking forth from amidst innumerable rays of light which emanated from it in every... | |
| Edward Pococke - 1852 - 444 oldal
...sovereigns, it had been so enriched that it received the name of Coricancha,4 or the place of gold. The interior of the -temple was the most worthy of admiration. It was totally a mine of gold. On the western wall was emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting... | |
| William Chambers - 1854 - 560 oldal
...before the cupidity of the Spaniards had quite despoiled them of their original magnificence : — ' The interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration....emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting of a human countenance looking forth from amidst innumerable rays of light which emanated from it in every... | |
| Edward Hammond Hargraves - 1855 - 268 oldal
...it. Yet this substantial, and, in some respects, magnificent structure, was thatched with straw ! The interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration....emblazoned a representation of the deity, consisting of a human countenance, looking from amidst innumerable rays of light, which emanated from it in every direction,... | |
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