It is to be regretted that the axe or plough should ever have desecrated a monument so sacred to the antiquary.
On a hill a short distance from the road the "Orphan Asylum" was pointed out to me, by my companion, as a monument of the benevolence and public spirit of the ladies of Natchez.
A monument was erected to the memory of this heroine at Dannenberg, in September, 1865.
She was buried in a splendid tomb at Lahore, close by the monument of Jehanghire.
There is (or was) a monument in Chelsea church, commemorative of the masculine courage of Anne Chamberlayne, only daughter of Edward Chamberlayne, Doctor of Laws.
After rapturously praising the genius, the courage, the personal beauty of D'Eon, this eulogy concludes by saying that "her military comrades offer this homage as an eternalmonument of their affection.
Bigelow is about to erect a monument to his memory within the enclosure of our beautiful central park.
To participate in the dedication of such a monumentis a rare and precious privilege.
Every monumentto Washington is a tribute to patriotism.
His monument bears this high tribute: "In memory of William Ellery Channing, honored throughout Christendom for his eloquence and courage in maintaining and advancing the great cause of truth, religion, and human freedom.
History has not yet allotted him his definite place, but no one would now deny that he bequeathed a pure standard of life, a record of lofty ambition for the public good as he understood it, a monument of life-long labor.
This splendid monument of feudal Europe is no more.
A monumentwas erected to him in Westminster Abbey.
In times of old,' she considered, 'a church or a monument would probably have been erected on the spot.
Without modifying the aspect of the monument he causes it to express its hidden meaning, and gives it a broader significance by associating it with his own thought.
The form of monument proposed was, the combination of a fountain by day and a light by night--the poetical conception of the rev.
It would be, to use the forcible words of messieurs Visconti and Castellan, on a somewhat similar occasion, "un monumentplus utile et plus durable que ceux meme que l'on peut eriger avec le marbre et le bronze.
Of the zeal with which he prosecuted this last pursuit, he has left a signal monument in his Rare and Remarkable Animals of Scotland.
After Caxton had slept with his fathers for three centuries, remembered only by a few antiquaries, it was deemed fit that a public monument should record his merits.
Reading the debates in Congress, at that time, on a proposed appropriation for a monument to General Grant, I was glad to see that Senator Plumb of Kansas was brave enough to express his opinion against it.
I went to see the monument that had been recently reared to their memory.
When the fund was started the people supposed the Queen was to return it all to the people in liberal endowments of charitable institutions, but her Majesty proposed to build a monument to Prince Albert, although he already had one in London.
Standing on its hills, one looks off upon a country of enameled meadow lands, that melt away southward toward the Mohawk, and northward to the base of those grand mountains which are 'God's monument over the grave of John Brown.
Regarding this same monument of marriage, the Taj.
Utterly deserted by all save his daughter, he died seven years afterwards, in 1665, and was buried at his own request beside his wife in the Taj Mahal, that most marvellous monument of marriage which the world has ever seen.
I have, dear sir, the singular fortune to be the article above described.
So perish your superstitions, your necromancies, your ancient arts of war, and the unwritten epics of your kings.
And now confess that Mr. Jorullo's monumentis far grander than the pyramid of Cheops.
Old Cheops, king of Egypt, spent vast sums of money, many long years, and the labour of myriads of his subjects, in erecting the Great Pyramid as a monument to his memory.
But Mr. Jorullo, without his having to lay down a single Mexican dollar, and without any labour, either of his own or of his servants, had a magnificent monument raised to his memory in a single night.
You would doubtless like to know how this greatmonument was reared.
At the head of his grave, in the old City Cemetery, stands a unique monument of his own designing.
She chants the Te Deum in her Cathedrals; and lays wreaths of immortelles and garlands of roses and sweet-smelling shrubs upon the monument of Andrew Jackson in Jackson Square.
And P'hra Indara promised to build him a palace hardly less grand and fair than the heavenly abode, a temple which should be the wonder of the world, a stupendous and everlasting monument of his love to men.
Is our Charter, patched up in a day, a fitting monument to the sovereignty of the people?
What monument will teach our posterity that there, behind these mutilated columns, their fathers fell in defence of liberty?
The inscription upon it is as follows:- This Monument was erected to the memory of Mrs. Eliz.
A small monument was raised for them in Hursley Church, with an inscription on a tablet now in the tower, purporting that the erection was by their daughters, Frances White and Beata Hall.
They were both buried at Hursley, probably in the church, but no monument appears to have been erected to their memory.
These are a poet's meditations on him, more graceful than the inscription on the monument erected to him by his two undutiful daughters, ere, in 1718, they sold the estate.
This monument was erected by his widow Frances, one of the daughters of Sir Charles Wyndham, in the county of Southampton.
The bronze monumentto Mr. Beecher, designed by John Q.
It stands to-day a monumentto the integrity and capacity of the Board of Supervisors, and all in any wise concerned in its construction.
All this that thou now seest, and namest Bury Town, is properly the Funeral Monument of Saint or Landlord Edmund.
Moreover, Pausanias describes the monument at Amyclae as consisting of a rude figure of Apollo standing on an altar-shaped base which formed the tomb of Hyacinthus.
One day he conceived the notion of building a palace for Catherine; she had just conquered Taurida, and this palace was to be a monument in memory of that conquest.
Thou whose leaden-based statue ought to be a hundred feet high, so that its shadow should fall on the Pont des Arts and the respectable monument to which it leads!
On this monument the same inscription is repeated in the Greek and in the Egyptian language, being written in the latter both in hieroglyphics and in the demotic or enchorial character.
