 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1847 - 350 pages
...granary !' But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of Ihe empire, was at Cuzco, where, under the munificence...had become so enriched, that it received the name of Coricancha, or " the Place of Gold." It consisted of a principal building and several chapels and inferior... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...Temple of the Sun is thus described by Mr. Prescott : — ' The most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire,...Cuzco, where, under the munificence of successive soveieigns, it had become BO enriched, that it received the name of Coricancha, or the " Place of Gold."... | |
 | Edward Pococke - Buddhism - 1852 - 444 pages
...thousand beams his awful beauty veils.2 " The most renowned of the Peruvian temples," says Prescott/ "the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire,...under the munificence of successive sovereigns, it had been so enriched that it received the name of Coricancha,4 or the place of gold. The interior of the... | |
 | Stamp collecting - 1866 - 210 pages
...the Conquest of Pent, we find the following statement: — The most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire,...had become so enriched that it received the name of Coricancha, or ' the place of gold.' Tho interior of the temple was the most worthy of admiration.... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Incas - 1874 - 560 pages
...ear of the blessed harvest for his own granary ! •* But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire, was at Cuzco, where, under the munificence of sue cessive sovereigns, it had become so enriched thai it received the name of Coricancha, or "the... | |
 | John Ellis - New Jerusalem Church - 1882 - 280 pages
...of Peru," thus describes the great Temple of the Sun : '' The most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire,...had become so enriched that it received the name of Coricanclia, or the ' Place of Gold.' It consisted of a principal building, and several chapels and... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - Atlantis - 1882 - 516 pages
...Prescott, in his " Conquest of Peru" (vol. i., p. 95), says: " The most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital and the wonder of the empire,...where, under the munificence of successive sovereigns, il had become so enriched that it received the name of Coricancha, or ' the Place of Gold.' . . . The... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...an ear of the •blessed harvest for his own granary! But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire,...had become so enriched, that it received the name of Coricancha, or " The Place of Gold." It consisted of a principal building and several chapels and inferior... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - Readers - 1884 - 524 pages
...even. an ear of the blessed harvest for his own granary! But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire,...had become so enriched, that it received the name of Coricancha, or " The Place of G.old." It consisted of a principal building and several chapels and... | |
 | John Ellis - New Jerusalem Church - 1886 - 328 pages
...of Peru," thus describes the great Temple of the Sun : " The most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire,...had become so enriched that it received the name of Coricancha, or the ' Place of Gold.' It consisted of a principal building, and several chapels and... | |
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But the most renowned of the Peruvian temples, the pride of the capital, and the wonder of the empire, was at Cuzco. where, under the munificence of successive sovereigns, it had become so enriched that it received the name of Coricancha, or 
