New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals and Translations, Volume 4Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1820 - Voyages and travels |
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Page iv
... beautiful images , both in nature and art . In the horizon appears the chain of Mount Ida , reaching to the borders of Olympus , whose lofty head in the clouds seems an emblem of Jupiter armed with his thunderbolts , and interesting ...
... beautiful images , both in nature and art . In the horizon appears the chain of Mount Ida , reaching to the borders of Olympus , whose lofty head in the clouds seems an emblem of Jupiter armed with his thunderbolts , and interesting ...
Page v
... beautiful water , catching the sun's reflections , and tinged with a freshness that seems the effect of a first creation . From the continual motion wherewith one wave rolls over another , on the surface , before they enter the ...
... beautiful water , catching the sun's reflections , and tinged with a freshness that seems the effect of a first creation . From the continual motion wherewith one wave rolls over another , on the surface , before they enter the ...
Page vii
... beautiful diversity in that quarter ; but the whole attention , on the first glance , is arrested by the delightful fountain , which is unparallelled , in point of magnificence , PLATE V. - View of Therapia , This view is taken from the ...
... beautiful diversity in that quarter ; but the whole attention , on the first glance , is arrested by the delightful fountain , which is unparallelled , in point of magnificence , PLATE V. - View of Therapia , This view is taken from the ...
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... beautiful plane - trees of Kérètch - Bournou , the Greeks and Armenians assemble to take their frugal , yet delicious repast . In the evening , we meet a brilliant assem- blage of Franks and Grecian ladies , formed in groupes upon the ...
... beautiful plane - trees of Kérètch - Bournou , the Greeks and Armenians assemble to take their frugal , yet delicious repast . In the evening , we meet a brilliant assem- blage of Franks and Grecian ladies , formed in groupes upon the ...
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... beautiful victims . Notwithstanding all the cares of Catharine and her succes- sors , the Crimea has lost much by emigration since it has become subject to the Russian yoke . The Mahometans detest all other religions , and will not ...
... beautiful victims . Notwithstanding all the cares of Catharine and her succes- sors , the Crimea has lost much by emigration since it has become subject to the Russian yoke . The Mahometans detest all other religions , and will not ...
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