New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals and Translations, Volume 4Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1820 - Voyages and travels |
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... Italian rival . Degeneracy , however , tarnished the character of its governing powers , and nothing could efface the deep stain , but the general subversion of a corrupted empire , by the founding of a new monarchy on its conquest A 2 ...
... Italian rival . Degeneracy , however , tarnished the character of its governing powers , and nothing could efface the deep stain , but the general subversion of a corrupted empire , by the founding of a new monarchy on its conquest A 2 ...
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... Italy , superstition confined the chissel of the statuary , and the pencil of the painter , to the portraits of saints , the mysteries of the gospel , and the fables of the golden legend . In Belgium , the same bias is evident , but the ...
... Italy , superstition confined the chissel of the statuary , and the pencil of the painter , to the portraits of saints , the mysteries of the gospel , and the fables of the golden legend . In Belgium , the same bias is evident , but the ...
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... Italy . Here I come under the walls of the old seraglio , built by Mahomet II . , when he gained Constantinople in 1453 ; but soon forsaken for the incomparably finer situation of the present palace , on the site of the antique ...
... Italy . Here I come under the walls of the old seraglio , built by Mahomet II . , when he gained Constantinople in 1453 ; but soon forsaken for the incomparably finer situation of the present palace , on the site of the antique ...
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... Italy , being large buildings of one or two stories , inclosing square or oblong courts . Round the ground and first - floors , are ranges of stone porticos , which communicate with the chambers , all separate , and furnished with ...
... Italy , being large buildings of one or two stories , inclosing square or oblong courts . Round the ground and first - floors , are ranges of stone porticos , which communicate with the chambers , all separate , and furnished with ...
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... Italian inns in this , that they are , by their construction , safe from all danger by fire . By the term bazaar are understood , markets held in the streets and public places , chiefly for the sale of provisions and apparel . The slave ...
... Italian inns in this , that they are , by their construction , safe from all danger by fire . By the term bazaar are understood , markets held in the streets and public places , chiefly for the sale of provisions and apparel . The slave ...
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