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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... mountains ; it contains no monument of Antiquity . The last breeze of Italy expires on this shore , where the empire of barba- rism commences . M. Seguier , the French consul at Trieste , had the kindness to undertake to procure me a ...
... mountains ; it contains no monument of Antiquity . The last breeze of Italy expires on this shore , where the empire of barba- rism commences . M. Seguier , the French consul at Trieste , had the kindness to undertake to procure me a ...
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... mountains whose singular shapes form an horizon as diversified as the eye could wish . " I envy not him who would not behold nature with the eyes of Fenelon and of Homer . The wind having lulled about eight o'clock in the evening , and ...
... mountains whose singular shapes form an horizon as diversified as the eye could wish . " I envy not him who would not behold nature with the eyes of Fenelon and of Homer . The wind having lulled about eight o'clock in the evening , and ...
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... mountains , which we had passed , formed to the northward behind us a circle which terminated at the entrance of the Adriatic ; on our right , that is , to the west , the sun went down beyond the coast of Otranto ; and before us was the ...
... mountains , which we had passed , formed to the northward behind us a circle which terminated at the entrance of the Adriatic ; on our right , that is , to the west , the sun went down beyond the coast of Otranto ; and before us was the ...
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... to be the wished - for object . On the morning of the 10th , I was upon deck before the sun had risen . As he issued from the deep , I per • ceived confused and lofty mountains in the distance ; they 62 TRAVELS IN GREECE , PALESTINE ,
... to be the wished - for object . On the morning of the 10th , I was upon deck before the sun had risen . As he issued from the deep , I per • ceived confused and lofty mountains in the distance ; they 62 TRAVELS IN GREECE , PALESTINE ,
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... mountains of Elis . Glory must surely be something real , since it makes the heart of him who is but the judge of it ... mountains , seem- ingly of white sand , covered by withered herbage : these were ne- vertheless the Egaleán ...
... mountains of Elis . Glory must surely be something real , since it makes the heart of him who is but the judge of it ... mountains , seem- ingly of white sand , covered by withered herbage : these were ne- vertheless the Egaleán ...
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altar ancient antiquity appeared Arabs arrived Athens Attica beauty beheld Calvary Carthage Carthaginians castle celebrated Christ Christians church citadel coast columns Constantinople consul convent Corinth cubit death descended desert Deshayes drogman east edifice Egypt erected Eurotas father fathoms Fauvel feet foot French gate Godfrey of Bouillon Greece Greek harbour hill Holy Land Holy Sepulchre honour horses hundred island Jaffa janissary Jerusalem Jews Joseph Josephus Judea king Lacedæmon marble Masinissa master measure Messenia Misitra modern monuments Morea mosque Mount of Olives Mount Sion mountains native night obliged pacha Palestine passed Pausanias Peloponnese perceived pilgrims plain port prince reign returned river rock Roman Rome ruins sacred says Scipio seen shore side Sparta Spon spot stadia stone summit temple thing tion tomb took tower town travellers Tunis Turkish Turks valley vessel village walls wind
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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.