| Giovanni Battista Belzoni - 1820 - 566 pagina’s
...that extreme pleasure, which wealth cannot purchase; the pleasure of discovering what has been long sought in vain, and of presenting the world with a...preservation, appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it ; and what I found in it will show its great superiority to all others. Not fifteen yards... | |
| 1821 - 598 pagina’s
...day, one of the best perhaps of my life ; from the pleasure it afforded me of presenting to the world, a new and perfect monument of Egyptian antiquity,...preservation,' — ' appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it ; and what I found in it/ he adds, ' will shew its great superiority to all others.'... | |
| 1821 - 602 pagina’s
...day, one of the best perhaps of my life ; from the pleasure it afforded me of presenting to the world, a new and perfect monument of Egyptian antiquity,...preservation,' — ' appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it ; and what I found in it,' he adds, ' will shew its great superiority to all others.'... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 602 pagina’s
...day, one of the best perhaps of my life ; from the pleasure it afforded me of presenting to the world, a new and perfect monument of Egyptian antiquity,...preservation,' — ' appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it; and what I found in it/ he adds, ' will shew its great superiority to all others.' Certain... | |
| Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Mrs. Belzoni (Sarah) - 1822 - 486 pagina’s
...that extreme pleasure, which wealth cannot purchase ; the pleasure of discovering what has been long sought in vain, and of presenting the world with a...preservation, appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it; and what I found in it will show its great superiority to all others. Not fifteen yards... | |
| Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1825 - 282 pagina’s
...limestone, I suppose. OWEN. — What sort of workmen did Mr. 13elzoni procure, mamma ? I hope he will not offer three hundred piastres this time. I dare say...they entered it : indeed, what was found in it will shew its superiority to the others. EMILY. — Now we shall hear the description of the tomb, the model... | |
| Sarah Atkins - 1825 - 284 pagina’s
...and compensated for all the mortification he had received from the operations of the Piedinontese. He says that this day gave him more pleasure and more...they entered it : indeed, what was found in it will shew its superiority to the others. EMILY. — Now we shall hear the description of the tomb, the model... | |
| 1834 - 602 pagina’s
...discovery was in the valley of Beban el Malouk, of a vast and magnificent tomb, described by him as " a new and perfect monument of Egyptian antiquity,...other in point of grandeur, style, and preservation." Speaking of the day on which he discovered this tomb, he says, " I may call it one of the best, perhaps,... | |
| Mrs. Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson - 1843 - 266 pagina’s
...that Belzoni pointed out the fortunate spot which repaid him for all his trouble, and compensated him for all the mortification he had received from the...found in it will show its superiority to the others. Not fifteen yards from the last tomb, Belzoni caused the earth to be opened, at the foot of a steep... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1854 - 732 pagina’s
...day, one of the best perhaps of my life ; from the pleasure it afforded me of presenting to the world a new and perfect monument of Egyptian antiquity,...preservation, — appearing as if just finished on the day we entered it ; and what I found in it," he adds, " will show its great superiority to all others.... | |
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