 | George Alexander Hoskins - Spain - 1851 - 406 pages
...might Charles V. exclaim : " You have built here what you or any one might have erected anywhere ; but you have destroyed what was unique in the world....complete, and you have begun what you cannot finish."* The pulpits of wood, resting on marble groups of a bull and an eagle, and an angel and a lion, are... | |
 | Bachelor - Spain - 1853 - 470 pages
...the prelate. When he passed throngh-in 1526, and saw the mischief, he thus reproved the chapter : " You have built here what you, or any one, might have...complete, and you have begun what you cannot finish." The walk round the lonely walls is picturesque. They are Moorish, and built of tapia with their gates... | |
 | Henry George O'Shea - 1865 - 718 pages
...intended to touch the ancient portion, 1 would not liave permitted it. You have built here what can be built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world ' Hernan Kuiz, on September 7, 1523, had begun the works ; the elegant alminar or belfry, built by... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - Europe - 1867 - 360 pages
...intended to touch the ancient portion I would not have permitted it. You have built here what can be built anywhere else; but you have destroyed what was unique in the world." Carlos Quinto was excited to speak as an aficianado—as a connoisseur. He had seen the Mogen Age marvels... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Spain - 1870 - 228 pages
...visited Cordova and saw what mischief had been done, he reproached the bishop and chapter, saying — "You have built here what you, or any one, might have...you have destroyed what was unique in the world." Only a few parts of the edifice remain uninjured by the hands of the spoiler. Amongst these is the... | |
 | Samuel Manning - Spain - 1870 - 216 pages
...visited Cordova and saw what mischief had been done, he reproached the bishop and chapter, saying — " You have built here what you, or any one, might have...you have destroyed what was unique in the world." Only a few parts of the edifice remain uninjured by the hands of the spoiler. Amongst these is the... | |
 | Eugène Louis Poitou - 1872 - 512 pages
...showed a right royal indignation at the mischief which the monks had wrought, and said to them : — "You have built here what you, or any one, might have...complete, and you have begun what you cannot finish." The semi-civilization of the Renaissance proved more destructive in Spain than the barbarism of the... | |
 | Eugene Poitou - Spain - 1872 - 522 pages
...showed a right royal indignation at the mischief which the monks had wrought, and said to them : — "You have built here what you, or any one, might have...complete, and you have begun what you cannot finish." The semi-civilization of the Renaissance proved more destructive in Spain than the barbarism of the... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - Christianity and other religions - 1876 - 416 pages
...Mosque into a cathedral, he reproached the bisVop and chapter, saying, ' You have built here what you might have built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world. ' by them for two hundred years ; and it was their rule that gave to the island the only period of... | |
 | John Russell Young - Egypt - 1879 - 716 pages
...in 1526 and saw what had been done in the building of this chapel, said : " You have built here what any one might have built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world." It is difficult to give an exact description of the mosque. Its value lies in the impression it makes... | |
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You have built here what any one might have built anywhere else, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world. 
