Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, المجلد 1Fay & Company, 1813 |
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... covered with thin leather . The carriage has besides , an imperial , a well , a swordcase , which may be converted into a small library ; and , instead of a window behind , a large lamp , so constructed as to throw a strong light ...
... covered with thin leather . The carriage has besides , an imperial , a well , a swordcase , which may be converted into a small library ; and , instead of a window behind , a large lamp , so constructed as to throw a strong light ...
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... covered , in a most barbarous taste , with columns , and pilasters , and cariatides , stuck between the windows ; all of which , in the true style of Dutch ginger- bread , are gilded . The whole of the building is a compound of what an ...
... covered , in a most barbarous taste , with columns , and pilasters , and cariatides , stuck between the windows ; all of which , in the true style of Dutch ginger- bread , are gilded . The whole of the building is a compound of what an ...
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... covered with fine pictures , by the best of the Flemish , and by other masters . They are fitted together , without frames , so as to cover , on each side , the whole of the wall , without the smallest attention to disposition or ...
... covered with fine pictures , by the best of the Flemish , and by other masters . They are fitted together , without frames , so as to cover , on each side , the whole of the wall , without the smallest attention to disposition or ...
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... covered by plates of the most precious metals , which left the features alone visible . As soon as the messengers of ... covering of a silver coat of mail ; when , from the multitude and cheap- ness of such pictures , the precaution , at ...
... covered by plates of the most precious metals , which left the features alone visible . As soon as the messengers of ... covering of a silver coat of mail ; when , from the multitude and cheap- ness of such pictures , the precaution , at ...
الصفحة 24
... , they carry a large basket , covered by an oil - skin , containing cheap , coloured prints , mirrors , thermometers , and barometers . They are always men of ingenuity , of uncommon perse- 24 @ LARKE'S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA .
... , they carry a large basket , covered by an oil - skin , containing cheap , coloured prints , mirrors , thermometers , and barometers . They are always men of ingenuity , of uncommon perse- 24 @ LARKE'S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA .
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afforded afterwards Akmetchet ancient antiquity appearance Armenian arrived Balaclava beautiful Black Sea Bosporus building Caffa called Calmucks canal carriage Caucasus ceremony Cherson Chersonesus church Circassians coast colour consists Constantinople copeeks covered Crimea described distance Don Cossacks dress emperour empire empress England English feet fortress Greek harbour head Heber's horses houses hundred inhabitants interiour journey Kaffa Kuban labour land manner marble miles Mithradates Moscow mountains mouth nations night nobles observed Odessa officers Oxai Pallas passed peasants peninsula perhaps persons Petersburgh Phanagoria plain port present princes professor Pallas publick remains remarkable resemblance river rocks roubles ruins Russian sea of Azof seemed seen ship shore sian side situation steppes stone Strabo Sudak Taganrock Taman Tanaïs Tartars territory thing tion tombs town traveller trees Tscherchaskoy tumuli Turkish Turks versts vessels village voyage walls whole wind Woronetz Yenikalé
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الصفحة 403 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 249 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
الصفحة 37 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
الصفحة 400 - near the village of Dauphigny ; this would suit me nicely, you know it well, for I have often said that I should like to be buried there ; and let me beg of you, as you value your old friend, not to suffer any pomp to be used at my funeral ; nor any monument, nor monumental inscription whatsoever, to mark where I am laid : but lay me quietly in the earth, place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten.
الصفحة 360 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting. martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
الصفحة 2 - Fire seldom, but fire sure. Push hard with the bayonet — the ball will lose its way, the bayonet never. The ball is a fool, the bayonet a hero ! Stab once, and off with the Turk from the bayonet.
الصفحة 29 - ... gate. Having passed, you look about, and wonder what is become of the city , or where you are ; and are ready to ask once more, How far is it to Moscow ? They will tell you,
الصفحة 36 - ... near an embroidered stool of satin placed for the archbishop. The loud chorus which burst forth at the entrance to the church, continued as the procession moved towards the throne, and after the archbishop had taken his seat ; when my attention was for a moment called off, by seeing one of the Russians earnestly crossing himself with his right hand, while his left was employed in picking my companion's pocket of his handkerchief.
الصفحة 35 - The second grand ceremony of this season takes place on Thursday before Easter at noon, when the archbishop washes the feet of the apostles. This we also witnessed. The priests appeared in their most gorgeous apparel. Twelve monks, designed to represent the twelve apostles, were placed in a semicircle before the archbishop. The ceremony is performed in the cathedral, which is crowded with spectators. The archbishop, performing all and much more than is related of our Saviour in the thirteenth chapter...
الصفحة 96 - England thoy are considered only as articles of luxury; yet throughout the vast empire of Russia, through all Finland, Lapland, Sweden, and Norway, there ' ' is no cottage so poor, no hut so destitute, but it possesses its vapour bath ; in which all its inhabitants, every Saturday at least, and every day in cases of sickness, experience comfort and salubrity...