Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, المجلد 1Fay & Company, 1813 |
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... tion of Christianity . At any rate , we may consider them as having originated from the source whence Italy derived a knowledge of the art , though prior to its appearance in that country . Little can be said of the merit of any of them ...
... tion of Christianity . At any rate , we may consider them as having originated from the source whence Italy derived a knowledge of the art , though prior to its appearance in that country . Little can be said of the merit of any of them ...
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... tion of Eternal . But its ruin was not fully accomplished until the building of Petersburgh when all the commerce of the Baltick was transferred to that capital . Bodies , miraculously preserved , or rather mummied , of saints who were ...
... tion of Eternal . But its ruin was not fully accomplished until the building of Petersburgh when all the commerce of the Baltick was transferred to that capital . Bodies , miraculously preserved , or rather mummied , of saints who were ...
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... tion of Peter the Great to have it so made . * The country is generally open , a wide and fearful prospect of hopeless ste- rility , where the fir and the dwarf birch , which cover even Arctick regions , scarcely find existence . The ...
... tion of Peter the Great to have it so made . * The country is generally open , a wide and fearful prospect of hopeless ste- rility , where the fir and the dwarf birch , which cover even Arctick regions , scarcely find existence . The ...
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... tion and , giving one of them a blow over his loins , bade him " halt at his peril . " Another effort was , of course , made , and the sledge flew to pieces . It was highly amusing to observe the dilemma into which the dragoon was now ...
... tion and , giving one of them a blow over his loins , bade him " halt at his peril . " Another effort was , of course , made , and the sledge flew to pieces . It was highly amusing to observe the dilemma into which the dragoon was now ...
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... tion paid by this people to their saints and virgins , we may discern strong traces of their national character . The homage they offer to a court parasite or to a picture , are both founded on the same principle ; and in all their ...
... tion paid by this people to their saints and virgins , we may discern strong traces of their national character . The homage they offer to a court parasite or to a picture , are both founded on the same principle ; and in all their ...
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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...