 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 714 pages
...language of the people, was " the tears wept by the Sun," ' and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious...the sanctuary were of the same costly material; and abroad belt or frieze of gold let into the stone-work encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice.*... | |
 | 1850 - 682 pages
...language of the people, was ' tho tears wept by the Sun,' and every part of the interior of the temple glowed , with burnished plates and studs of the precious...metal. The cornices which surrounded the walls of tho sanctuary, were of the same costly material ; and a broad belt or frieze of gold let into the stone-work... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1851 - 782 pages
...language of the people, was " the tears wept by the Sun ; " and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious...; and a broad belt or frieze of gold, let into the stonework, encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice. Adjoining the principal structure were several... | |
 | Arminianism - 1851 - 658 pages
...language of the people, was " the tears wept by the sun ;" and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious...; and a broad belt or frieze of gold, let into the stone-work, encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice. Adjoining the principal structure were several... | |
 | Edward Pococke - Buddhism - 1852 - 444 pages
...language of the people, was the tears wept by the Sun, and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious...were of the same costly material, and a broad belt of gold work, let into the stone work, encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice." How little do... | |
 | William Chambers - New Zealand - 1854 - 560 pages
...language of the people, was " the tears wept by the Sun;" and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious...; and a broad belt or frieze of gold, let into the stonework, encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice. Adjoining the principal structure were several... | |
 | Edward Hammond Hargraves - Australia - 1855 - 272 pages
...language of the people, was " the tears wept by the sun;" and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates, and studs of the precious...; and a broad belt or frieze of gold, let into the stonework, encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice. All the plate, the ornaments, the utensils... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Hutchinson - 1873 - 446 pages
...language of the people, was " the tears wept by the sun;" and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious...material, and a broad belt or frieze of gold let into the stonework encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice. The sentiment of pleasant, though painful,... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1874 - 560 pages
...language of the people, was "the tears wept by the sun," I7 and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious...; and a broad belt or frieze of gold, let into the stone-work, encompassed the whole exterior of the edifice.18 «* Conq. i Fob. del Piru, MS. — Cieza... | |
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Gold, in the figurative language of the people, was "the tears wept by the sun," and every part of the interior of the temple glowed with burnished plates and studs of the precious metal. The cornices which surrounded the walls of the sanctuary were of... 
