New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Originals and Translations, Volume 4Sir R. Phillips and Company, 1820 - Voyages and travels |
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... plain . Let us leave the light - house of Anatolia , at the foot of which are the shoals called the Cyaneæ of Asia , and stretch across to that of Europe , built on the promontory Panuim ; from thence we survey at leisure the sea ...
... plain . Let us leave the light - house of Anatolia , at the foot of which are the shoals called the Cyaneæ of Asia , and stretch across to that of Europe , built on the promontory Panuim ; from thence we survey at leisure the sea ...
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... plains might become the granary of Constantinople , but it lies un- cultivated . What a monster is despotism ! It strikes with barrenness whatever it touches ; it only knows how to destroy , and if it is not surrounded by ruin , it ...
... plains might become the granary of Constantinople , but it lies un- cultivated . What a monster is despotism ! It strikes with barrenness whatever it touches ; it only knows how to destroy , and if it is not surrounded by ruin , it ...
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... plain edifice , holding a secondary rank , and nothing like its present state of grandeur , for which it is indebted to this magnificent prince . After Isidore of Miletus had employed his talents upon it , an immense difference appeared ...
... plain edifice , holding a secondary rank , and nothing like its present state of grandeur , for which it is indebted to this magnificent prince . After Isidore of Miletus had employed his talents upon it , an immense difference appeared ...
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... plain , interspersed with small columns of white marble , each about two cubits in height . His Highness retires there occa- sionally , for the exercise of shooting with the bow , and the cippi indicate the places where the arrows have ...
... plain , interspersed with small columns of white marble , each about two cubits in height . His Highness retires there occa- sionally , for the exercise of shooting with the bow , and the cippi indicate the places where the arrows have ...
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... plain on a nimble courser . The Armenians imitate the Turks , but as for the Greeks , their recreations have somewhat in them more boisterous . The women , in general , seem easy to be gratified in the article of recreation ; their ...
... plain on a nimble courser . The Armenians imitate the Turks , but as for the Greeks , their recreations have somewhat in them more boisterous . The women , in general , seem easy to be gratified in the article of recreation ; their ...
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