A Journal Written During an Excursion in Asia Minor: 1938J. Murray, 1839 - 347 pagine |
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A Journal Written During an Excursion in Asia Minor Sir Charles Fellows Visualizzazione completa - 1839 |
A Journal Written During an Excursion in Asia Minor Sir Charles Fellows Visualizzazione completa - 1839 |
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Pagina 32 - D and afterwards to each of the cardinal points. The tone is very harmonious, and the words are dwelt upon with a prolonged sound, making in the stillness of the night a chant which is solemn and striking; its meaning is simple and beautiful: " God is most great!" "I testify that there is no deity but God!
Pagina 266 - Of the site of the theatre, the scene of the tumult raised by Demetrius, there can be no doubt, its ruins being a wreck of immense grandeur. I think it must have been larger than the one at Miletus, and that exceeds any I have elsewhere seen in scale, although not in ornament. Its form alone can now be spoken of, for every seat is removed, and the proscenium is a hill of juins.
Pagina 32 - They know nothing of traditions, for they are only conquerors here, and extremely ignorant; but I required no guide; the stupendous ruins proclaimed their builders, and their situation told who selected it. The site of the theatre is truly Greek. It embraces in its view the city, and the plains of Pergamus with its chain of mountains, and is lit by the rising sun. There is in the middle of the city a ruin of such extent that...
Pagina 180 - On my thanking him, he expressed his hope that I would call upon him again, and, instead of staying two days, would remain a month, assuring me that he would make me comfortable. He rose from his seat and accompanied me towards the door when I came away, which is quite contrary to eastern etiquette, and Demetrius says he never saw it done before by a Pasha. I withdrew and rambled home, where I had not long arrived before the Doctor was sent to offer to be my cicerone in the town, which I declined...
Pagina 286 - ... intimacy has attached me. How different are now my feelings towards the Turks, from those uncharitable prejudices with which I looked upon them on my first arrival at this place ! To their manners, habits, and character, equally as to their costume, I am become not only reconciled, but sincerely attached ; for I have found truth, honesty, and kindness, the most estimable and amiable qualities, in a people among whom I so little looked for them.
Pagina 64 - ... contest the point, where lived these people whose acts for ages gave even a date to the world. The continents of Europe and Asia, as well as the islands of Imbros and Tenedos, were included in the view, the centre of which was marked by the winding course of the Scamander. In the village of Boonobassy a few relics of past days have been worked up in the mud of the hovels, but there are none to indicate the site of even a small town. This village, which is by Europeans called Old Troy, stands...
Pagina 288 - From their religious devotion they derive a submission to the divine will so entire, that it has drawn upon them the misrepresentation of being fatalists. To prevent evil they are as earnest as others. I have seen them using all their efforts to extinguish fires; and have often been solicited by them for medicine ; and they easily receive advice to check illness ; but if the fire cannot be arrested, they submit, and say "God is great...
Pagina 106 - Amidst this perfect garden — for beneath our feet were violet, hyacinth, and anemone in great variety — the most perfect view opened before us, not grand but of perfectly lovely beauty. In the extreme distance was the snowy range of Olympus, and before it a series of fine mountains, with their feet bathed in the most placid of lakes, the ancient Ascania, which is about ten miles long and four in breadth. At the southern end of the lake, beautifully situated, stood the ruined towers of the many...
Pagina 237 - The outward marks of respect are scarcely visible in their burial-grounds, little more being left to mark the place of interment than a row of stones indicating the oblong form of the grave ; but a pipe or chimney, generally formed of wood or earthenware, rises a few inches above the ground, and communicates with the corpse beneath ; and down this tube libations are poured by the friends of the deceased to the attendant spirit of the dead.
Pagina 131 - I was beginning to make my meal upon the food we had with us, when in came nine people, each bearing a dish. A large tray was raised on the rim of a corn-sieve placed on the ground, in the centre of which was put a tureen of soup, with pieces of bread around it. The stranger, my servant, and a person who seemed to be the head man of the village, sat round the tray, dipping their wooden spoons or fingers into each dish as it was placed in succession before them. Of the nine dishes I observed three...