Temples, ancient and modern : or, Notes on church architecture (1837)
Bardwell, Wm. (William) · London : Printed for the author · leaf 152
106 TEMPLES, CHAP. XI. THE CHURCHES OF CHRISTIAN ROME, CONSTANTINOPLE, ASIA-MINOR, EGYPT, AND RUSSIA. "THE NIOBE OF NATIONS ! THERE SHE STANDS, CHILDLESS AND CROWNLESS, IN HER VOICELESS WOE ; AND EMPTY CRN WITHIN HER WITHERED HANDS, WHOSE HOLY DUST WAS SCATTERED LONG AGO." BYRON. … very numerous, they formed, no doubt, the smaller portion of his subjects : the multitude, who were, in fact, of no religion, were accounted among the votaries of paganism, to whom the parade of a splendid superstition was more attractive than the simplicity of the true worship. The conversion of…
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