Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, During the Years 1806 and 1807Van Winkle and Wiley, 1814 - 517 páginas A memoir of the author's life while he was researching and writing a religious history called Les Martyrs, ou le Triomphe de la Religion Chretienne. The introduction includes the history of Athens and Sparta and an inquiry into religious traditions related to Jerusalem--specifically, the authenticity of claims made by religious tourists, such as visiting the actual tomb of Christ. The text of the diary is full of literary references and adventure. Unlike other travel diaries, the narrative flow is more like a novel and the entries are not just lists of weather reports, food, pretty sights, and some funny anecdotes. Since the author had a research purpose during his time there, Travels in Greece has a protagonist with a purpose. |
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... covered with large marbles , and supported by pillars . Here you still find inhabited houses . The whole city may be six or seven miles in circumference , and contains about twelve thousand inhabitants . " Four important things are to ...
... covered with large marbles , and supported by pillars . Here you still find inhabited houses . The whole city may be six or seven miles in circumference , and contains about twelve thousand inhabitants . " Four important things are to ...
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... covered with churches and monasteries . He says , that the Holy Sepulchre was adorned with precious stones , Jewels , crowns of gold , necklaces and brace- lets . * Gregory of Tours , the earliest historian of the French monarchy , also ...
... covered with churches and monasteries . He says , that the Holy Sepulchre was adorned with precious stones , Jewels , crowns of gold , necklaces and brace- lets . * Gregory of Tours , the earliest historian of the French monarchy , also ...
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... covered with forts and bastions , are occupied by churches and monasteries ; the sound of the clocks belong- ing to the hospitals and lazarets reached our ears , and excited no ideas but those of tranquility and succour , in the midst ...
... covered with forts and bastions , are occupied by churches and monasteries ; the sound of the clocks belong- ing to the hospitals and lazarets reached our ears , and excited no ideas but those of tranquility and succour , in the midst ...
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... covered by the island of Sphacteria ; names equally celebra- ted , the one in fable , the other in history . At noon we came to an anchor off Modon formerly Methone , in Messenia . In an- other hour I was on shore , I trod the classic ...
... covered by the island of Sphacteria ; names equally celebra- ted , the one in fable , the other in history . At noon we came to an anchor off Modon formerly Methone , in Messenia . In an- other hour I was on shore , I trod the classic ...
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... covered with white veils , and looking like ghosts : this was the only circumstance that reminded me at all of the country of the Muses . The cemetry of the Christians adjoins that of the Mussulmans ; it is in a ruinous state , without ...
... covered with white veils , and looking like ghosts : this was the only circumstance that reminded me at all of the country of the Muses . The cemetry of the Christians adjoins that of the Mussulmans ; it is in a ruinous state , without ...
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Página 287 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Página 244 - Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Página 296 - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people!
Página 7 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Página 286 - And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Página 297 - AND it came to pass, that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Página 291 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land...
Página 380 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Página 119 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the "sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 136 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.