| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1786 - 506 pages
...the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, Sec. — « For the firft building of Paris, it was neceffary to get the ftone in the environs, and the confumption...under the houfes in feveral quarters. They ftand upon abyfles. It would not require a very violent mock to throw back the itones to the place, from whence... | |
| Books and bookselling - 1786 - 494 pages
...neceflary to get the ftone in the environs, and the confumption of it was very confidcrable. As Paris wa», enlarged, the fuburbs were infenfibly built on the...earth for the foundation of the city ; hence proceed thc frightful cavities which are at thif time found under the hnufes in feveral quarters. They ftand... | |
| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 546 pages
...suburbs were insensibly built on tlie ancient quarries, so that, all that you see without is essentially wanting in the earth, for the foundation of the city...frightful cavities, which are at this time found under the houses in several quarters. They stand upon abysses. It would not require a very violent shock to throw... | |
| Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 540 pages
...insensibly built on the ancient quarries, so that, all that you see without U essentially want. ing in the earth, for the foundation of the city : hence...frightful cavities, which are at this time found under the houses in several quarters. They stand upon abyssea. I: would not require a very violent shock to throw... | |
| Rev. Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 566 pages
...suburbs were insensibly built on the ancient quarries, so that, all that you see without is essentially wanting in the earth, for the foundation of the city ; hence proceed th« frightful cavities, which are ai this time found under the houses in several quarters. They stand... | |
| Edward Polehampton - Natural history - 1821 - 538 pages
...suburbs were insensibly built on the ancient quarries, so that, all that you see without is essentially wanting in the earth, for the foundation of the city...frightful cavities, which are at this time found under the houses in several quarters. They stand upon abysses. It would not require a very violent shock to throw... | |
| Gift books - 1831 - 234 pages
...the suburbs were insensibly built on the ancient quarries, so that all you see without is essentially wanting in the earth for the foundation of the city : hence proceed the frightful cavities which, at this time, are found under the houses in several quarters. They stand upon abysses. It would not... | |
| 1835 - 194 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
| Robert Angus Smith - Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1883 - 500 pages
...suburbs were insensibly buflt on the ancient quarries, so that all that you see without is essentially wanting in the earth for the foundation of the city...frightful cavities, which are at this time found under the houses in several quarters. They stand upon abysses. It would not require a very violent shock to throw... | |
| |