 ... this fine country — its resources neglected, its fields lying waste, its towns in ruins, its population decaying, and not only the traces of human labour, but of human existence, every day becoming obliterated; in fine, when I saw all the people...  Kismet: Or, The Doom of Turkey - Page 116by Charles MacFarlane - 1853 - 452 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1828 - 502 pages
...becoming obliterated ; in fine, when I saw all other people advancing iu the arts of civilized life, while they alone were stationary, and the European...lion did not sleep, but was dying, and after a few fierce convulsions would never rise again. " The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 448 pages
...obliterated ; in fine, when I saw all the people about them advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone were stationary, and the European...lion did not sleep, but was dying, and after a few fierce convulsions would never rise again. The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through... | |
 | 1829 - 536 pages
...obliterated ; in fine, when I saw all the people about them advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone were stationary, and the European...lion did not sleep, but was dying, and after a few fierce convulsions would never rise again. " The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing... | |
 | 1829 - 742 pages
...obliterated ; in fine, when I saw all the people about lh«m advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone were stationary, and the European...lion did not sleep, but was dying, and after a few fierce convulsions would never riae again. WalMt Journey, pp. 124, 125. 3. Another circumstance of... | |
 | 1829 - 530 pages
...obliterated ; in fine, when I saw all the people about them advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone were stationary, and the European...little from his Asiatic ancestor, except only in having losl the fierce energy which then pushed him on ; when I considered this, I was led to conclude that... | |
 | 1829 - 538 pages
...obliterated ; in fine, when I saw all the people about them advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone were stationary, and the European...differing little from his Asiatic ancestor, except VOL. III. — No. 5. 32 only in having lost the fierce energy which then pushed him on ; when I considered... | |
 | 1829 - 530 pages
...European Turk of this day differing little from his Asiatic ancestor, except voL. in. — NO. 5. 32 only in having lost the fierce energy which then pushed him on ; when I considered this, 1 was led to conclude that the lion did not sleep, but was dying, and after a few fierce convulsions... | |
 | Edward Winthrop - 1843 - 300 pages
...becoming obliterated; in fine, when I saw the people about them advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone •were stationary, and the European...Turk of this day differing little from his Asiatic ancestors, except only in having lost the fierce energy which then pushed him on ; when I considered... | |
 | John Price Durbin - 1845 - 408 pages
...obliterated — in fine, when I saw all the people about them advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone Were stationary, and the European...differing little from his Asiatic ancestor, except only having lost the fierce energy which then pushed him on — when I considered this, I was led to conclude... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1829 - 584 pages
...obliterated ; in fine, when I saw all the people about them advancing in the arts of civilized life, while they alone were stationary, and the European...traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Iluins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land had been cultivated, are frequently seen,... | |
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