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" ... the besiegers relieved, as in the city, by the artificial supply of cisterns and aqueducts. The circumjacent country is equally destitute of trees for the uses of shade or building ; but some large beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 247
by Edward Gibbon - 1805
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Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr ..., Volume 5

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...to the camp by the vigour and dexterity CHAP. of Tancred ; and the engines were framed by some XL1V Genoese artists, who had fortunately landed in the...stations, of the duke of Lorraine and the count of Thoulouse, and rolled forwards with devout labour, not to the most accessible, but to the most neglected...
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Walks about the City and Environs of Jerusalem

William Henry Bartlett - Jerusalem - 1844 - 298 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the Crusaders. A wood near Sichem (the enchanted grove of Tasso,) was cut down ; the necessary timber was transported...moveable turrets were constructed at the expense and iu the stations of the Duke of Lorraine and the Count of Toulouse, and rolled forwards with devout...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders : a wood near Sichern, the enchanted grove of Tasso, movable turrets were constructed at the expense and in the stations of the Duke of Lorraine and the...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders : a wood near Sichern, the enchanted grove of Tasso, these ingredients ought to bo mixed in different movable turrets were constructed at the expense and in the stations of the Duke of Lorraine and the...
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The Art of Elocution: From the Simple Articulation of the Elemental Sounds ...

George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders : a wood near Sichem, the enchanted grove of Tasso, was cut down ; the necessary timber was transported to the camp by the vigor and dexterity of Tancred ; and the engines were framed by some Genoese artists, who had fortunately...
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The Art of Elocution: Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation. With ...

George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 396 pages
...enchanted grove of Tasso, was cut down ; the necessary timber was transported to the camp by the vigor and dexterity of Tancred ; and the engines were framed...Genoese artists, who had fortunately landed in the harbor of Jaffa. Two moveable turrets were constructed at the expense and in the stations of the Duke...
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The Art of Elocution: Or, Logical and Musical Reading and Declamation. With ...

George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders : a wood near Sichem, the enchanted grove of Tasso, was cut down ; the necessary timber was transported to the camp by the vigor and dexterity of Tancred ; and the engines were framed by some Genoese artists, who had fortunately...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 7

Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders : a wood near Sichem, the enchanted grove of Tasso,109 was cut down : the necessary timber was transported...engines were framed by some Genoese artists, who had foror 4167 English yards (p. 109,11(1): from an authentic plan D'Anville concludes a measure nearly...
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Principles of Elocution

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders: a wood near Sichem, the enchanted grove of Tasso, was cut down ; the necessary timber was transported...had fortunately landed in the harbour of Jaffa. Two movable turrets were constructed at the expense, and in the stations, of the Duke of Lorraine and the...
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Repetition and reading book, selections by C. Bilton

Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...beams were discovered in a cave by the crusaders : a wood near Sichem, the enchanted grove of Tasso, was cut down : the necessary timber was transported...stations of the duke of Lorraine and the count of Thoulouse, and rolled forwards with devout labour, not to the most accessible, but to the most neglected,...
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