Twixt Greek and Turk; Or, Jottings During a Journey Through Thessaly, Macedonia, and Epirus in the Autumn of 1880Blackwood, 1881 - 276 páginas |
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... seem to recede phantom - like as we advance . But to all misery there is a term . By the time one has stuck his cramped extremities twenty times , first out of one , then out of the other , side of the strangely devised vehicle , in ...
... seem to recede phantom - like as we advance . But to all misery there is a term . By the time one has stuck his cramped extremities twenty times , first out of one , then out of the other , side of the strangely devised vehicle , in ...
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... seems to be stricken with a sort of moral and mental par- alysis ? No doubt misgovernment weighs heavily upon him , but it does not suffice to account for the phenomenon . The clue is to be found in the fact that " the rich and fertile ...
... seems to be stricken with a sort of moral and mental par- alysis ? No doubt misgovernment weighs heavily upon him , but it does not suffice to account for the phenomenon . The clue is to be found in the fact that " the rich and fertile ...
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... seems disposed to shape it by their own action . Supineness is the chief charac- teristic of Mussulmans as well as Christians . There is on both sides great eagerness to know what is going to be done for them or with them , but very ...
... seems disposed to shape it by their own action . Supineness is the chief charac- teristic of Mussulmans as well as Christians . There is on both sides great eagerness to know what is going to be done for them or with them , but very ...
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... Neither Kiepert's nor the Austrian staff map seems to convey a very correct impression of the orog- raphy of this important district . Far from be- ing a confused alternation of hill and dale , it UNDER THE SHADOW OF OLYMPUS . 35.
... Neither Kiepert's nor the Austrian staff map seems to convey a very correct impression of the orog- raphy of this important district . Far from be- ing a confused alternation of hill and dale , it UNDER THE SHADOW OF OLYMPUS . 35.
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... seems generally to be regarded as entirely satisfactory , for the Pasha relapses into conversation with his companions , or singles out one of his visitors to talk more practical business , and the rest sit in meditative silence ...
... seems generally to be regarded as entirely satisfactory , for the Pasha relapses into conversation with his companions , or singles out one of his visitors to talk more practical business , and the rest sit in meditative silence ...
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Twixt Greek and Turk; Or, Jottings During a Journey Through Thessaly ... Sir Valentine Chirol Visualização integral - 1881 |
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Acheron Albanian already ancient Baba Blackwood's Magazine brigands Bulgarian century chiftlik Christian Church CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH cliffs cloth Constantinople Crown 8vo Dervish descendants district Dodona Edinburgh Elassona empire ENGLISH READERS Engravings Epirus Fcap fustanellas Government Greece Greek Greek clergy Gulf hand Hellenic hills History houses Illustrations JOHN Kalabaka Kathrakia Kosana land landowners Larissa late League LL.D lofty Macedonia Maps Meteora Metzovo military monastery Monastir Moslem Mount Mount Olympus mountains Mussulman northern numerous officials Olympus Ottoman Parga Pasha peasantry peasants peninsula Perlepe Pindus plain of Thessaly Poems population Porte Portrait post 8vo precipitous present Professor prosperity province race ridge rise road rocks Roman ruins Salemvria Salonica scarcely Scotland Second Edition side slopes Suli Suliote Sultan Tchamis Thessaly Third Edition tion town Trikalla Turkey Turkish Turkish rule Turks University of Edinburgh Vale of Tempe valley villages Volo vols vrykolakas Wallachs walls waters
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