Palmyra Quotes
- The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of… — Anatole France
- While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew… — Benjamin Rush
- At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec… — Horace Walpole
- The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New… — Horace Walpole