{"id":2547,"date":"2018-08-17T17:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/157-the-pharos-at-alexandria\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:55","slug":"157-the-pharos-at-alexandria","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/157-the-pharos-at-alexandria\/","title":{"raw":"157 <i>The Pharos at Alexandria<\/i>.","rendered":"157 <i>The Pharos at Alexandria<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/322\" target=\"new\">304<\/a><\/span> <p>Certain full and highly-wrought dissuasives from sensual indulgences, in the works of theologians as well as of satirists and story-writers, may, not unaptly, remind one of the Pharos; the many lights of which appeared at a distance <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/323\" target=\"new\">305<\/a><\/span>as one, and this as a polar star.. so as more often to occasion wrecks than prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>At the base of the Pharos the name of the reigning monarch was engraved, on a composition, which the artist well knew would last no longer than the king's life. Under this, and cut deep in the marble itself, was his own name and dedication: \"Sostratos of Gyndos, son of Dexiteles, to the Gods, Protectors of Sailors.\"\u2014 So will it be with the Georgium Sidus, the Ferdinandia, &amp;c. &amp;c.\u2014 Flattery's Plaister of Paris will crumble away, and under it we shall read the names of Herschel, Piozzi, and their compeers.<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/322\" target=\"new\">304<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Certain full and highly-wrought dissuasives from sensual indulgences, in the works of theologians as well as of satirists and story-writers, may, not unaptly, remind one of the Pharos; the many lights of which appeared at a distance <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/323\" target=\"new\">305<\/a><\/span>as one, and this as a polar star.. so as more often to occasion wrecks than prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>At the base of the Pharos the name of the reigning monarch was engraved, on a composition, which the artist well knew would last no longer than the king&#8217;s life. Under this, and cut deep in the marble itself, was his own name and dedication: &#8220;Sostratos of Gyndos, son of Dexiteles, to the Gods, Protectors of Sailors.&#8221;\u2014 So will it be with the Georgium Sidus, the Ferdinandia, &amp;c. &amp;c.\u2014 Flattery&#8217;s Plaister of Paris will crumble away, and under it we shall read the names of Herschel, Piozzi, and their compeers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":157,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2547","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2547\/revisions\/2548"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2547\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}