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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... once classic , but now barbarous countries , to every species of fatigue , hardship and danger , at the expense of his fortune and his health , merely that he may give a faithful portraiture of the scenes which he has chosen for a work ...
... once classic , but now barbarous countries , to every species of fatigue , hardship and danger , at the expense of his fortune and his health , merely that he may give a faithful portraiture of the scenes which he has chosen for a work ...
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... once more in Greece . Antonius and Marcus Aurelius loaded Athens with A. D. 176 . Capitol . Dio . favours . The latter in particular was solicitous to re- store the Academy to its ancient splendor , he increased the number of the ...
... once more in Greece . Antonius and Marcus Aurelius loaded Athens with A. D. 176 . Capitol . Dio . favours . The latter in particular was solicitous to re- store the Academy to its ancient splendor , he increased the number of the ...
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... once more conquered Athens and all the Morea in 1688 ; the former they again lost almost im- mediately , but the latter they retained till 1715 , when it returned under the dominion of the Mussulmans . At the instigation of Catherine II ...
... once more conquered Athens and all the Morea in 1688 ; the former they again lost almost im- mediately , but the latter they retained till 1715 , when it returned under the dominion of the Mussulmans . At the instigation of Catherine II ...
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... once renowned for its walls , har bours buildings ; pre - eminent in arms , wealth , citizens , wisdom , and every species of learning , is now reduced to a petty town , or rather a village . Formerly free and living under its own laws ...
... once renowned for its walls , har bours buildings ; pre - eminent in arms , wealth , citizens , wisdom , and every species of learning , is now reduced to a petty town , or rather a village . Formerly free and living under its own laws ...
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... once the seat of the sciences , and to which the whole world is under obligation - Athens , I say , was alone spared in the universal destruction . In every part of it you meet with marbles of astonishing beauty and magnitude ; they ...
... once the seat of the sciences , and to which the whole world is under obligation - Athens , I say , was alone spared in the universal destruction . In every part of it you meet with marbles of astonishing beauty and magnitude ; they ...
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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.