Sentences with phrase «of ancient buildings»

The sound of the gondolier singing his way through the canals, the water lapping at homes and docks, the smell of the sea and fish, the beauty of the ancient buildings built on the water, the textures of glass and stone and artwork everywhere... magical!

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) fears that buildings that are not sold could end up being abandoned and boarded up to reduce running costs.

He recorded the verdant landscapes of Virginia and the coasts of Italy; closeup details of ancient buildings and sculptures; studio interiors; Mediterranean landscapes; and still lifes of objects and flowers.

Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed «Night Climbers of Cambridge», a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the 20th Century.

Following a period of research, while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas developed new subject matter including the famed Night Climbers of Cambridge, a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the university and town, taking photographs while trying to avoid detection, gained them a cult following during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Following a period of research while in residence at Jesus College Cambridge in 2016, Bas has developed new subject matter including the famed «Night Climbers of Cambridge», a group of students whose nocturnal ascents of the ancient buildings of the...

The writers slowly produce answers all of these questions — and many more — in the hours that follow, as Aloy moves beyond the protected confines of her tribe's dominion and into the larger world, where we discover the towering skeletons of ancient buildings, splinter tribes in the far reaches that have developed their own beliefs and rituals, and a stunning contemporary city in the heart of a desert, among many other wonders.

The 11th - century city of Polonnaruwa contains a fascinating array of ancient buildings, Anuradhapura is the first capital city of Sri Lanka and Mihintale is believed to be the meeting place of the Buddhist monk Mahinda and King Devanampivatissa which inaugurated the presence of Buddhism in Sri Lanka.

This capital city of Northern Ireland is charming with its collections of ancient buildings and beautiful gardens.

Governments are not in the business of either knowing about or «approving» the dating of ancient buildings, AND there is no reason to believe the entire structure was built at the same time.

«The data confirms that on New Year's Day 2019, New Horizons will be looking at one of the ancient building blocks of the planets.»

So my father, poised as it were on the very threshold of eternity, was brought for the last time into the cool, dim, silent shadow of the ancient building, perhaps there to find the peace he had been seeking.

Forteen Corinthian columns remain of the structure, making it easy to fill in the rest of the ancient building in your mind.

75009 — Boulevard Haussmann Another beautiful mosaic floor of the ancient building of @societegenerale.

Not exact matches

Visitors will have access to the ancient ruins at Mada'in Saleh, a relic of the same ancient civilization that built the better - known city of Petra in Jordan and a UNESCO world heritage site.

In the shadows of these ultramodern buildings, the ancient Malay village of Kampung Baru still thrives, with free - roaming roosters and a slow pace of life that's usually only to be found in the most rural of villages.

More than two thousand years after the original Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was destroyed in an earthquake, a group of architects wants to build a 21st - century version of it.

You would have to go back to the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the building of the Terracotta Army by China's first emperor more than 2000 years ago to find comparable examples of resource wastage on such a grand scale.

a former NASA scientist took these plans & built a scale replica in an attempt to debunk the ancient alien theory & after years of research & reconstructing the craft from the specs in the bible, he became a believer.

Thus modern science is built on Christian foundations, and this explains why there was no science as we know it in any of the ancient civilisations ofantiquity.

Mosul, the second - largest city in Iraq, is built on and adjacent to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, the setting for the biblical book of Jonah and once the most powerful capital of the ancient world.

The slides featured ancient stone buildings, panoramic views of Jerusalem, and sunglass - wearing Americans standing atop of the Mount of Olives with the golden Dome of the Rock in the background.

A cookbook and an assembly manual will generally go in total chron order so the user does nt mess up the meal or the machine they're building, but the Genesis account is written in an ancient Hebrew style that shares none of your modern techno - biases.

The clear implication is that YHWH was not concerned with holy buildings in the same way as were the gods of ancient man.

Are we saying that the Christianity we grew up with is actually a syncretistic religion, containing elements of not only ancient Christianity, but also of Roman pagan worship, complete with temples (buildings) and paid employees (priests and others)?

Do we know how the ancients built much of what they did, like the pyramids?

Bath was an ancient place of healing because of the hot springs and it's famous for its baths built by the Romans.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

The kings of ancient Babylon built temples to their moon god in the form of stepped pyramids known as ziggaruts.

Johan Huibers, a wealthy businessman, used the ancient measurement of the cubit - the length of a man's arm from elbow to fingertips - to build the vessel to the dimensions specified in the book of Genesis.

What is needed at the present time, then, is a theology of sin that builds upon the work of the persons cited here, but that can develop a stronger connection between social structures and individuals, and with the ancient insights concerning original sin.

Ancient man recognized that the mystery of resurrection also was built into the world.

But there was always room for a little change and that is how the heritage of ancient ideas of the world was gradually built up.

Form criticism, building on the foundations of the immense comparative studies of the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, dismissed the stories as typical products of the legend - making propensities of ancient religious movements, to be paralleled in both Jewish and Hellenistic religious literature.

All of Christianity is built on a misinterpretation of an ancient myth.

In a fascinating parallel with Thomas Aquinas» view of the matter, Novak shows that the covenant does not abolish nature but builds on it: Where natural justice was the most that other nations in the ancient Near East could imagine, justice was for Israel the bare minimum the covenant guaranteed.

It was in part this gradual eroding of the buildings that formed the mounds in which archaeologists now dig up the ancient culture.

(39) The basis for that model is rooted in the social history of ancient Israel and is evidenced textually in the Old Testament tension between the transformative vision of Moses, which belonged to the earliest voice of liberated Israel, and the stabilizing tendency of royal theology which sought to build institutions and establish a reliable social structure.

Your examination of the etymology of the word «sin» is laudatory, yet your entire system, (the «salvation paradigm»), is built on a fallacious interpretation of an Ancient Near Eastern Choas Myth, (the «fall»), and the need for a «christ» / savior in the first place.

Though the roots of this attitude can be found in ancient mythic and religious forms of thought, in the past three centuries the estrangement of human subjects from the natural world in turn has been built up in our imaginations under the influence of certain types of scientific epistemology and cosmology.

Listening to and following liars and adulterers and child molesters and terrorists in the name of some built - up ancient healer, (or talking burning tree or hateful psychopath) is a sick joke on humanity.

Christianity is unproven claims built atop ancient mythology of more unproven claims.

A church is technically a term for a gathering of citizens in a town (origins from ancient Greek), but is commonly understood by the Christian adoption of the word as gathering of Christians in a building or structure to facilitate worship and the meeting of its members, specifically in Christianity

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

They «Ancient / Orthodoxy» I think is the place we must begin to build off of.

«Just like most of the earliest papyri of the New Testament and other literary and documentary papyri, a fragment this damaged could have come from an ancient garbage heap,» the King says building on prior research by Luijendijk.

Etymologically it has been linked with an ancient South Arabian verb meaning «to build,» and with a verb in the dialect of Socotra meaning «to bear, bring forth.»

As so often happened in Western Europe, later medieval rulers continued to build in and around such ancient religious shrines, so that Sergiopolis became the palace of the eighth century Caliph Hisham.

In building his case for why we can still believe the Bible, Blomberg effectively positions himself between liberal scholars who refuse to acknowledge the firm textual base on which the scriptures stand and ultraconservatives who insist on a rigidly literal reading of the Bible (often in the King James only) in the face of legitimate developments in our understanding of ancient manuscripts and genres.

So when in middle age I come at last to believe that a nation builds up a moral treasury of merit by the sacrifices of its people in war and I begin to worry, like the ancient moralists did, that we grow fat, lazy and contemptible amidst our plenty, I don't have a leg to stand on.