Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and Other Countries of the East, Volume 1Robert Walpole Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 - 615 pagine Consists of unpublished papers of Dr. Sibthorp, Dr. Hunt, Dr. Hume and other travellers, with descriptions of antiquities and notes and excursus by the editor. |
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Pagina 222 - Father, the procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son...
Pagina 71 - The length of a male specimen, somewhat less than nine feet in expanse, was three feet three inches from the tip of the beak to the extremity of the tail ; and its height, when perching, with the neck partly withdrawn, two feet eight inches.
Pagina 486 - Magnificentiae vero in Déos vel Jovis Olympii templum Athenis, unum in terris inchoatum pro magnitudine Dei, potest testis esse.
Pagina 353 - This joom is four feet longer than the one below ; in the latter, you see only seven stones, and a half of one, on each side of them ; but in that above, the nine are entire, the two halves resting on the wall at each end. The breadth is equal with that of the room below. The covering of this, as of the other, is of beautiful granite; but it is composed of eight stones instead of nine, the number in the room below.
Pagina 43 - s dwelling without stopping to visit it, would have been deemed an insult, as the reception of strangers was a privilege highly valued. While a stranger was under their protection, his safety was their first object ; an insult to such a person would have aroused in their breasts the strongest incitements to revenge ; his danger would have induced them to sacrifice even their lives to his preservation, as his suffering any injury would have been an indelible disgrace to the family where it happened.
Pagina 352 - I determined to make another effort to enter, which was accompanied with more success than the first. I was enabled to creep in, though with much difficulty, not only on account of the lowness of the passage, but likewise the quantity of dust which I raised. When I had advanced a little way, I discovered what I supposed to be the end of the passage. My surprise was great, when I reached it, to find to the right a straight entrance into a long, broad, but low place, which...
Pagina 478 - The breadth of the Ceramicus, according to Mr. Hawkins, being thus confined on one side by the walls of the city, and on the other by the buildings immediately under the acropolis, could not have exceeded one half of its length. It was divided into the outer and inner Ceramicus. The former was without the walls, and contained the tombs of those who had fallen in battle, and were buried at the public expense.
Pagina 352 - He entered a little way with his face on the ground, but was obliged to retire on account of the passage being in a great measure choked with dust and bats' dung, which in some places was near a foot deep. He first thought of clearing a path by throwing the dirt down into the gallery ; but, foreseeing...
Pagina 523 - It is carried on for a great way at the height of twenty or thirty feet above the river; but toward the eastern end of the vale it rises much higher, in order to surmount the brows of some promontories which fall there precipitately, and without any basement, into the water. In short, it appears to have been conducted with as much attention to the ease and safety of passengers as the nature of the ground would admit of; and even in its present neglected state, inspires a traveller with sufficient...
Pagina 384 - ... smoking and passing their time in listless indolence. The dress of the poorer Arabs consists simply of a pair of loose blue or white cotton drawers, with a long blue tunic, which serves to cover them from the neck to the ancles, and a small red woollen scull-cap, round which they occasionally wind a long strip of white woollen.