 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 páginas
...and gravity of their national character. The olive-tree, the gift of Minerva, flourishes in Attica ; nor has the honey of mount Hymettus lost any part of its exquisite flavour :*7 but the languid trade is monopolised by strangers; and the agriculture of a barren land is abandoned... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 488 páginas
...and gravity of their national character. The olive-tree, the gift of Minerva, flourishes in Attica; nor has the honey of mount Hymettus lost any part of its exquisite flavour:1 but the languid trade is monopolized by strangers; and the agriculture of a barren land is... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 páginas
...and gravity of their national character. The olive-tree, the gift of Minerva, flourishes in Attica; nor has the honey of Mount Hymettus lost any part of its exquisite flavour : but the languid trade is monopolized by strangers; and the agriculture of a barren land is °. .... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 618 páginas
...extent, especially in the plains of Macedonia, and forms the chief basis of it» export trade. The oiive in Greece, and especially in Attica, retains its ancient...the people are skilled in the management of cattle, but much more in that of sheep and goats, which are fed in vast numbers on the sides of the hills,... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1839 - 590 páginas
...raised to a very great extent, and forms the chief basis of its export trade. The olive, in Greece, retains its ancient celebrity ; " nor has the honey...the people are skilled in the management of cattle, but much more in that of sheep and goaU, which arc fed in vast numbers on the sides of the hills, and... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1840 - 586 páginas
...trade. The olive, in Greece, retains its ancient celebrity ; " nor has the honey of Mount Hymcttus lost any part of its exquisite flavour." That species...the people are skilled in the management of cattle, but much more in that of sheep and goats, which are fed in vast numbers on the sides of the hills,... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 604 páginas
...raised to a very great extent, and forms the I chief basis of its export trade. The olive, in Greece, retains its ancient celebrity ; ; " nor has the honey...the people are skilled in the management of cattle, but much more in that of sheep and gouts, which aro fed in vast numbers on the sides of the hills,... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 728 páginas
...raised to a very great extent, and forms the chief basis of its export trade. The olive, in Greece, retains its ancient celebrity ; " nor has the honey...currants, is peculiar to the Morea and the Ionian Inlands, especially Zante, from which it is largely exported. Greece, however, is altogether a pastoral... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1855 - 596 páginas
...armed brigs do not exceed 80 tons ; some have even rated them at 40. Their bold and skilful manoeuvres have, in Count Pecchio's apprehension, rather frightened...the people are skilled in the management of cattle, but much more in that of sheep and goats, which are ffed in vast numbers on the sides of the hills,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 páginas
...and gravity of their national character. The olive-tree, the gift of Minerva, flourishes in Attica ; nor has the honey of Mount Hymettus lost any part of its exquisite flavour :" but the languid trade is monopolised by strangers, and the agriculture of a barren land is abandoned... | |
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Greeks in religion and language; and the Turks, who compose the remainder, have relaxed, in their intercourse with the citizens, somewhat of the pride and gravity of their national character. The olive-tree, the gift of Minerva, flourishes in Attica;... 
