 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1907 - 876 pages
...higher, as he holds it more ancient, than its more popular and famous neighbour on Salisbury Plain. ' The most august work at this day upon the globe of the earth,' as Stukeley called it. How were all but some half a dozen of these 190 great temple stones and the... | |
 | Mike Corbishley - History - 1998 - 420 pages
...eighteenth century one visitor to Avebury, William Stukeley, described it as 'that stupendous temple ... the most august work at this day upon the globe of the earth ... Publick sacrifices, games, hymns, a sabbatical obseriance being there celebrated.' STONEHENGE The... | |
 | Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 598 pages
...an ample and accurate description of that stupendous temple of theirs at Abury in North Wiltshire, the most august work at this day upon the globe of the earth; with many prints of ground-plots, views and admeasurements of all its parts; of their manner of sepulture;... | |
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Wiltshire, the most august work at this day upon the globe of the earth... 