 | Esther Singleton - 2003 - 420 Seiten
...memorable omen. When the surveyor in person had set out upon the place the dimensions of the great dome, a common labourer was ordered to bring a flat stone...laid for a mark and direction to the masons ; the stone which he immediately brought and laid down for the purpose happened to be a piece of a gravestone,... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 2004 - 646 Seiten
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 | John Wien Forney - 1867 - 436 Seiten
...family. He has himself recorded in the " Pardntalia," that " when the surveyor in person (himself) had set out upon the place the dimensions of the great dome, and fixed upon the centre, a common laborer was ordered to bring a flat stone from the heaps of rubbish (such as should first come to hand),... | |
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Paul's," writes Sir Christopher Wren, in the ' Parentalia,' " we are told an incident was taken notice of by some people as a memorable omen : when the surveyor in person had set out upon the place the dimensions of the great dome, and fixed upon the... 
