Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... built up the sacred edifice of freedom , or have contented itself with introducing some practical reform into the established system of Sicilian legislature ; for instance , it might have obliged the nominal authorities to correct their ...
... built up the sacred edifice of freedom , or have contented itself with introducing some practical reform into the established system of Sicilian legislature ; for instance , it might have obliged the nominal authorities to correct their ...
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... built , accord- ing to the saying of their great Empedocles , as if they were about to live for ever , and lived as if they expected to die on the morrow † . During this period , those stately edifices arose , whose ruins still com ...
... built , accord- ing to the saying of their great Empedocles , as if they were about to live for ever , and lived as if they expected to die on the morrow † . During this period , those stately edifices arose , whose ruins still com ...
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... built it for eternity ; by that strange chance which frequently confounds all the devices of man , every trace of it is nearly swept away , whilst more humble and frail structures remain around it . There was but little ornament on the ...
... built it for eternity ; by that strange chance which frequently confounds all the devices of man , every trace of it is nearly swept away , whilst more humble and frail structures remain around it . There was but little ornament on the ...
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... built town , containing little worthy of notice , except its extreme poverty , that usual concomitant of a weak and oppressive government : it reckons about 15,000 inhabitants , eleven convents of monks , six of nuns , five parish ...
... built town , containing little worthy of notice , except its extreme poverty , that usual concomitant of a weak and oppressive government : it reckons about 15,000 inhabitants , eleven convents of monks , six of nuns , five parish ...
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... built by Frederic II . King of Sicily . Having ascended the chief tower , which has been converted into a prison , to enjoy the extensive view from its summit , we were induced , by a confused clamour of voices and clanking of chains ...
... built by Frederic II . King of Sicily . Having ascended the chief tower , which has been converted into a prison , to enjoy the extensive view from its summit , we were induced , by a confused clamour of voices and clanking of chains ...
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