 | David Porter - 1835 - 336 páginas
...termination of his labours on this edifice, may convey some idea of its splendour and magnificence • " Glory be to God who has thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work; I have vanquished thee, 0 Solomon!" In about twenty years after this, part of the church of St.... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1838 - 640 páginas
...five years, ten months, and eleven days, Justinian exclaimed, at the solemn feast of the dedication, " Glory be to God, who has thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work! I have vanquished thee, O Solomon I " There is no space for the description of this magnificent... | |
 | 1842 - 468 páginas
...female customers is always doomed to be disappointed. SANTA SOPHIA, AND THK SOUMANIEH MOSQUE. DURINC the course of our peregrinations, we wended our way...completed in the thirty-sixth year of that monarch's reigu, and even its present degenerate and neglected state might have justified his exclamation of:... | |
 | 1854 - 526 páginas
...stones, and when the church was completed, well might Justinian exclaim, in his enthusiasm, " Glory to God, who has thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work." Ou a porphyry tablet are engraved the names of Allah, of Mohammet, and of the four first caliphs,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 páginas
...stones, and when the church was completed, well might Justinian exclaim, in his enthusiasm, " Glory to God, who has thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work." On a porphyry tablet are engraved the names of Allah, of Mohammet, and of the four first caliphs,... | |
 | W Arnati- White - 1874 - 196 páginas
...stones, and when the church was -completed, well might Justinian exclaim, in his enthusiasm, "Glory to God, who has thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work." On a porphyry tablet are engraved the names of Allah, of Mohammet, and of the four first caliphs,... | |
 | 1892 - 598 páginas
...six-winged cherubims have been replaced by mosaic stars. Justinian's pious boast when he opened the church, "Glory be to God who has thought me worthy to accomplish so great a work , I have vanquished thee, O Solomon!" strikes us as being only too modest, for he had caused to... | |
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Constantino the Great, was the work of Justinian, and shortly after its completion was destroyed by an earthquake. It, however, rose with redoubled splendour from its ruins, was completed in the thirty-sixth year of that monarch's reign, and even its... 