Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary During the Years 1806 and 1807 /c by F.A. de Chateaubriand ; Translated from the French by Frederic Shoberl, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1812 |
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... Turkish and Greck languages , as well as the vulgar Greek . He had begun a descrip- tion of the Morea , but as he afterwards entered into the service of Great Britain , his manuscript proba- bly fell into the hands of his last employers ...
... Turkish and Greck languages , as well as the vulgar Greek . He had begun a descrip- tion of the Morea , but as he afterwards entered into the service of Great Britain , his manuscript proba- bly fell into the hands of his last employers ...
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... Turkish tombs , over- arched with spreading cypresses , and the waves breaking at their base . Among these tombs I per- ceived female figures covered with white veils , and looking like ghosts : this was the only circum- stance that ...
... Turkish tombs , over- arched with spreading cypresses , and the waves breaking at their base . Among these tombs I per- ceived female figures covered with white veils , and looking like ghosts : this was the only circum- stance that ...
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... Turkish cemetery , covered with cypresses of all ages . My guide , pointing to these trees , called them Parissos . One of the ancient inhabitants of Messenia would have related to me the whole history of the young man of Amycle , only ...
... Turkish cemetery , covered with cypresses of all ages . My guide , pointing to these trees , called them Parissos . One of the ancient inhabitants of Messenia would have related to me the whole history of the young man of Amycle , only ...
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... Turkish merchant threw himself upon a mat , exclaiming : " And this is the best kan in the Morea ! From Paris to Marseilles I found beds every where . " where . " I strove to cheer his spirits , by offering him half of the supper which ...
... Turkish merchant threw himself upon a mat , exclaiming : " And this is the best kan in the Morea ! From Paris to Marseilles I found beds every where . " where . " I strove to cheer his spirits , by offering him half of the supper which ...
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... Turkish cause- ways , two feet and a half broad , carry you over low and marshy spots . As there is not a single wheel- carriage in this part of the Peloponnese , these causeways are sufficient for the asses of the pea- sants and the ...
... Turkish cause- ways , two feet and a half broad , carry you over low and marshy spots . As there is not a single wheel- carriage in this part of the Peloponnese , these causeways are sufficient for the asses of the pea- sants and the ...
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Abbé altar ancient antiquity appeared Arabs Argos arms arrived Athenians Athens Attica beauty beheld Bethlehem Cape castle celebrated Chandler Choiseul Christian church citadel coast columns Constantinople Corcyra Corinth Coron D'Anville Dead Sea descended desert drogman east edifices Eleusis emperor empire erected Eurotas Father Fauvel foot formerly French Greece Greek harbour hill Hist Holy Land Homer horses Hymettus island Jaffa janissary Jerusalem Jordan Joseph Judea Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Laconia latter Lord Elgin Magoula marble Megara Messenia Methone Minerva Misitra modern monuments Morea Mount mountains native night pacha Parthenon passed Pausanias Peloponnese perceived pilgrims Piræus plain port prince resembling returned river road rock Roman ruins sacred says Scheria seen Sepulchre shewed shore side Smyrna Sparta Spon spot summit Taygetus temple theatre thing tion tomb town travellers trees Tripolizza Turkish Turks valley Venetians vessel village walls wind
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Página 377 - 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 383 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Página 197 - 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.
Página 371 - I can now account for the surprise expressed by the crusaders and pilgrims at the first sight of Jerusalem, according to the reports of historians and travellers. I can affirm that, whoever has, like me, had the patience to read near two hundred modern accounts of the Holy Land, the rabbinical compilations, and the passages in the ancients relative to Judea, still knows nothing at all about it.
Página 404 - It is found in great abundance," says he, "round Jericho, in the Tallies near the Jordan, and in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea. It is true that these apples are sometimes full of dust ; but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect (tenthredo) which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rind entire, without causing it to lose any of its colour.
Página 393 - Arabian side, on the contrary, nothing is to be seen but black perpendicular rocks, which throw their lengthened shadow over the/ waters of the Dead Sea. The smallest bird of heaven would not find among these rocks s blade of grass for its sustenance; every thing there announces the country of a reprobate people, and seems to breathe the .horror and incest whence sprung Ammon and Moab.
Página 393 - Figure to.Yourself two long chains of mountains running in a parallel direction from north to south, without breaks and without undulations. The eastern chain, called the mountains of Arabia, is the highest; when seen at the distance of eight or ten leagues, you would take it to be a prodigious perpendicular wall perfectly resembling Jura in its form and azure colour.
Página 190 - On leaving the olive-wood, we came to a garden surrounded with walls, which occupies nearly the site of the outer Ceramicus. We proceeded for about half an hour, through wheat stubbles, before we reached Athens. A modern wall, recently repaired, and resembling a garden wall, encompasses the city. We passed through the gate, and entered little rural streets, cool, and very clean : each house has its garden, planted with orange and figtrees. The inhabitants appeared to me to be lively and inquisitive,...
Página 353 - When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Página 401 - Reland concludes that it discharges its superfluous waters by subterfaneous channels. Sandys and some other travellers have expressed the same opinion; but it is now relinquished in consequence of Dr. Halley's observations on evaporation; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux assert,...