New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals and Translations, Volume 4Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1820 - Voyages and travels |
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... banks of the Bosphorus ; constantly selecting the most delicious vallies of an earth enlivened with fruits and flowers , for the enchanted sight to repose on . They pre- sent also the various gifts and charms of art and its monuments ...
... banks of the Bosphorus ; constantly selecting the most delicious vallies of an earth enlivened with fruits and flowers , for the enchanted sight to repose on . They pre- sent also the various gifts and charms of art and its monuments ...
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... bank of some crystal stream , the delicious landscape here designed would constitute that sweet , sacred haunt . But as beauty cannot be seen without its veil , or only by stealth , amidst the orientals , the ... BANKS OF viii THE PLATES .
... bank of some crystal stream , the delicious landscape here designed would constitute that sweet , sacred haunt . But as beauty cannot be seen without its veil , or only by stealth , amidst the orientals , the ... BANKS OF viii THE PLATES .
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... BANKS OF THE BOSPHORUS . FIRST PROMENADE . ON arriving at Constantinople by land , nothing apprizes the traveller that he is approaching a capital city . In other countries , the seat of empire is always surrounded by a profusion of ...
... BANKS OF THE BOSPHORUS . FIRST PROMENADE . ON arriving at Constantinople by land , nothing apprizes the traveller that he is approaching a capital city . In other countries , the seat of empire is always surrounded by a profusion of ...
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... bank are scattered in profusion , and every inch of ground is classic . There Nicopolis sketched upon the banks ; and a little further on , at the narrowest part of the river , Xenophon terminated his glorious retreat ; at the same spot ...
... bank are scattered in profusion , and every inch of ground is classic . There Nicopolis sketched upon the banks ; and a little further on , at the narrowest part of the river , Xenophon terminated his glorious retreat ; at the same spot ...
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... banks of the other ; it is the depôt of the north and the south , of the east and the west , and a medium destined by nature to establish relations between the different nations of our continent . The ancients , whose commercial ...
... banks of the other ; it is the depôt of the north and the south , of the east and the west , and a medium destined by nature to establish relations between the different nations of our continent . The ancients , whose commercial ...
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