 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1802 - 396 pages
...marks of those sumptuous edifices, with which it was adorned by king Herod. Towards the north side is a large square piazza, encompassed with marble pillars,...built by the empress Helena over the place where St. Jolm the Baptist was beheaded, the dome of which, together with some beautiful columns, capitals, and... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1803 - 376 pages
...marks of those sumptuous edifices, with which it was adorned by king Herod. Towards the north side is a large square piazza, encompassed with marble pillars,...Fabric. Jacob's well is highly venerated by Christian travellers, on account of its antiquity, and of our Redeemer's conference with the woman of Samaria.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Chronology, Historical - 1804 - 376 pages
...those sumptuous edifices, with which it was adorned by king Herod. Towards the north side is a lars^e square piazza, encompassed with marble pillars, together...fabric. . Jacob's well is highly venerated by Christian travellers, on account of its antiquity, and of ;our Redeemer's conference with the woman of Samaria.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 378 pages
...Herod. Toward the «o.rth side is a large square piazza, encompassed with marble pillars, together'with the fragments of strong walls at some distance. But...St. John the Baptist:, was beheaded, .the dome of wJiich., together with some beautiful columns, capitals, and mosaic work, prove it to have been a noble... | |
 | Donald Fraser - World history - 1808 - 442 pages
...marks of those sumptuous edifices with which it was adorned by king Herod. Towards the north side is a large square piazza, encompassed with marble pillars,...capitals, and mosaic work, prove it to have been a noble febric. Jacob's well is highly venerated by Christian travellers, on account of its antiquity, and... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Palestine - 1824 - 398 pages
...square piazza, encompassed with pillars; and on the cast, some poor remains of a great Hunch, eaid lo have been built by the empress Helena, over the place where St. John Baptist was both imprisoned and beheaded." are human heads, perhaps in allusion to the severed head... | |
 | Michael Russell (bp. of Glasgow and Galloway.) - Palestine - 1831 - 466 pages
...was such a metropolis, are only a large square piazza surrounded with pillars, and some poor ruins of a church, said to have been built by the Empress Helena over the place where St John the Baptist was both imprisoned and beheaded. In the body of this temple you go down a staircase into the very dungeon... | |
 | Michael Russell - Jews - 1833 - 374 pages
...was such a metropolis are only a large square piazza surrounded with pillars, and some poor ruins of a church, said to have been built by the Empress Helena over the place where St. John the Baptist was both imprisoned and beheaded. In the body of this temple you go down a staircase into the very dungeon... | |
 | Child rearing - 1835 - 350 pages
...was such a metropolis are only a large square piazza surrounded with pillars, and some poor ruins of a church, said to have been built by the Empress Helena over the place where St. John the Baptist was both imprisoned and beheaded. In the body of this temple you go down a staircase into the very dungeon... | |
 | Henry Maundrell - Jerusalem - 1836 - 294 pages
...side, a large square piazza, encompassed with pillars, and on the east some poor remains of a great church, said to have been built by the empress Helena, over the place where St. John Baptist was both imprisoned and beheaded. In the body of the church you go down a stair-case, into... | |
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Towards the north side is a large square piazza, encompassed with marble pillars, together with the fragments of strong walls at some distance. But the most remarkable object is a church, said to have been built by the empress Helena over the place where... 
