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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... give them to the public with regret , and as it were in spite of myself , I should tell the truth and probably nobody would believe me . My tour was not undertaken with the intention of writing it ; I had a very different design , and ...
... give them to the public with regret , and as it were in spite of myself , I should tell the truth and probably nobody would believe me . My tour was not undertaken with the intention of writing it ; I had a very different design , and ...
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... give a faithful portraiture of the scenes which he has chosen for a work of fiction ; it is impossible to withhold our admiration of the ardour and enthusiasm which alone could suggest the idea of such an enterprise , and communicate ...
... give a faithful portraiture of the scenes which he has chosen for a work of fiction ; it is impossible to withhold our admiration of the ardour and enthusiasm which alone could suggest the idea of such an enterprise , and communicate ...
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... gives us so little information , that it may be comprised without incon- A. D. 1770. venience in the series of facts and annals . We now proceed to the chronology of travels and geographical works . No sooner had Athens , the slave of ...
... gives us so little information , that it may be comprised without incon- A. D. 1770. venience in the series of facts and annals . We now proceed to the chronology of travels and geographical works . No sooner had Athens , the slave of ...
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... give an account of Greece from the year 1444 , to the time in which he wrote . The first book contains the political , and the second the ecclesiastical history of that interesting country . The six others are composed of letters sent ...
... give an account of Greece from the year 1444 , to the time in which he wrote . The first book contains the political , and the second the ecclesiastical history of that interesting country . The six others are composed of letters sent ...
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... gives a rapid sketch of his travels in Greece . " Sparta , " says he , is a desert place : Misi- tra which is four miles off , is inhabited . You find at Sparta almost all the walls of the towers and the foun dations of the temples ...
... gives a rapid sketch of his travels in Greece . " Sparta , " says he , is a desert place : Misi- tra which is four miles off , is inhabited . You find at Sparta almost all the walls of the towers and the foun dations of the temples ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
altar ancient antiquity appeared Arabs arrived Athens beauty beheld Calvary Carthage 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 French consul 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 17 - 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 120 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; 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...
Página 291 - 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 290 - 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 387 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Página 386 - Her gates are sunk into the ground ; he hath destroyed and broken her bars : her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
Página 386 - 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 387 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Página 295 - Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Página 121 - 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.