Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... 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 worst abuses , to ...
... 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 worst abuses , to ...
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... edifice : it was technically termed , Pseudo - dipteral , i . e . it was not encircled by a colonnade or portico , but the pillars projected from the wall rather more than a semi - circumference , the intercolumniation being closed up ...
... edifice : it was technically termed , Pseudo - dipteral , i . e . it was not encircled by a colonnade or portico , but the pillars projected from the wall rather more than a semi - circumference , the intercolumniation being closed up ...
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... edifice . At a little dis- tance from hence northward are two conical hills , containing a beauti- ful plain of turf between them , called La Meta , or the Goal : ' Nature herself seems to have marked out the spot which tradition thus ...
... edifice . At a little dis- tance from hence northward are two conical hills , containing a beauti- ful plain of turf between them , called La Meta , or the Goal : ' Nature herself seems to have marked out the spot which tradition thus ...
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... edifice , and was consumed together with his treasures and his friends : the platform of a temple is certainly visible on this spot . At a short distance in the descent below , is one of those large quar- ries which supplied materials ...
... edifice , and was consumed together with his treasures and his friends : the platform of a temple is certainly visible on this spot . At a short distance in the descent below , is one of those large quar- ries which supplied materials ...
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... edifice at Agrigentum , except Julius Frontinus , in his third Book of Stratagems , but his text is evidently corrupted , and for Agri- gentum we ought to read Catania . discover none . It is so named by Herodotus , Aristotle and Strabo ...
... edifice at Agrigentum , except Julius Frontinus , in his third Book of Stratagems , but his text is evidently corrupted , and for Agri- gentum we ought to read Catania . discover none . It is so named by Herodotus , Aristotle and Strabo ...
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