Identifier: encyclopediaofan01fosb (find matches)
Title: Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Fosbroke, Thomas Dudley, 1770-1842
Subjects: Classical antiquities Civilization, Medieval
Publisher: London : M. A. Nattali
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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acticable, according to History. Sum-marily then, it is historically affirmed,that the Phenicians or Canaanites werethe first who instituted an order of archi-tecture ; X and Sammes, y a Philo-Phe-nician, who has been, through his pre-dilection for his subject, accused ofexaggerating that which in fact doesnot amount to half of what might havebeen truly said, ■ finds the Cyclopeanstyle in Cornwall; for he says, I willonly mention one thing in this penin-sula, which seems to me exactly topreserve its Phenician name (Arith, alake), and that is a fortification ofstones only, without any cement ormortar, lying as upon the lakeLeopole, a fortification after the man-ner of the Britons, as Tacitus describesthem, rucles et informes saxorum corn-pages ; which was the way of theeastern nations, as the Scripturesthemselves inform us. Foreign Topography. -^ Bromleys Arts, i.\9<\. y Britannia, 59. ^ See Ezekiel c. xxvii.which renders unnecessary any other authorities,though they are numerous.
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I Gate of the Lions at Mycence.—Seep. 7. CHAPTER II.

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