Travels in North Europe: From Modern Writers, with Remarks and Observations, Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Division of the GlobeHarvey and Darton, 1822 - 346 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 296 - Moscow !" and you behold nothing but a wide and scattered suburb, huts, gardens, pig-sties, brick walls, churches, dunghills, palaces, timber-yards, warehouses, and a refuse, as it were, of materials sufficient to stock an empire with miserable towns and miserable villages.
الصفحة 186 - If you ask for an interpreter, they bring you a Jew: if you come to an inn, the landlord is a Jew; if you want post-horses, a Jew procures them, and a Jew drives them; if you wish to purchase, a Jew is your agent...
الصفحة 282 - The monarch is represented in the attitude of mounting a precipice, the summit of which he has nearly attained. His head is uncovered, and crowned with laurel...
الصفحة 296 - ... holding congress : timber huts from regions beyond the Arctic ; plastered palaces from Sweden and Denmark, not whitewashed since their arrival ; painted walls from the Tyrol ; mosques from Constantinople ; Tartar temples from Bucharia ; pagodas, pavilions, and virandas, from China ; cabarets from Spain ; dungeons, prisons, and public offices from France ; architectural ruins from Rome ; terraces and trellisses from Naples ; and warehouses from Wapping.
الصفحة 299 - The immense throng of spectators within, bearing innumerable tapers, formed two lines, through which the archbishop entered, advancing with his train to a throne near the centre. The profusion of lights in all parts of the cathedral, and, among others, of the enormous chandelier which hung from the centre, the richness of the dresses, and the vastness of the assembly, filled us with astonishment.
الصفحة 296 - The next room to ours was filled by ambassadors from Persia. In a chamber beyond the Persians lodged a party of Kirgisians, — a people yet unknown, and any one of whom might be exhibited in a cage, as some ne,wly-discovered species. They had bald heads covered by conical embroidered caps, and wore sheeps
الصفحة 176 - ... with round caps or hats. The women of the lower class wear upon their heads a wrapper of white linen, under which their hair is. braided, and hangs down in two plaits.
الصفحة 25 - ... the showy habiliments in which he took pride, or of the warlike accoutrements which were his glory, or of the framework of his body itself, which he felt as comeliness and strength the instant before it became a mass of senseless matter.
الصفحة 299 - Soon after, the archbishop descended, and went all round the cathedral; first offering incense to the priests, and then to the people as he passed along. When he had returned to his seat, the priests, two by two, performed the same ceremony, beginning with the archbishop, who rose and made obeisance, with a lighted taper in his hand. From the moment the church doors were opened, the spectators had continued bowing their heads and crossing themselves, insomuch that some of the people seemed really...
الصفحة 304 - Taken altogether, it is a jumble of magnificence and ruin ; old buildings repaired, and modern structures not completed ; half-open vaults, and mouldering walls, and empty caves, amidst whitewashed brick buildings, and towers and churches with glittering, gilded, or painted domes.