Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 1 pages |
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Page vii
... Fine Arts - Splendid Site of the City - Description of its Temples and other Antiquities - Modern City of Girgenti upon Mount Camicus - Cathedral , Public Library , & c . - Festival at the Dominican Convent- Excavations among the Tombs ...
... Fine Arts - Splendid Site of the City - Description of its Temples and other Antiquities - Modern City of Girgenti upon Mount Camicus - Cathedral , Public Library , & c . - Festival at the Dominican Convent- Excavations among the Tombs ...
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... fine evening in this delightful season of the year when we cast anchor in the bay of Palermo . The land - breeze wafted fragrance from the orange groves in its environs ; the sea was covered even to the horizon , with innumerable little ...
... fine evening in this delightful season of the year when we cast anchor in the bay of Palermo . The land - breeze wafted fragrance from the orange groves in its environs ; the sea was covered even to the horizon , with innumerable little ...
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... fine island of which it is the capital ; it is divided into four parts , by two long streets , terminated with lofty gates , and forming , at their intersec- tion , a fine piazza , called the " Quattro Cantonieri . " It contains many ...
... fine island of which it is the capital ; it is divided into four parts , by two long streets , terminated with lofty gates , and forming , at their intersec- tion , a fine piazza , called the " Quattro Cantonieri . " It contains many ...
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... fine suite of rooms , called the Conversazione , though from it all conversation seems banished by universal consent : it is , indeed , a temple over which the joint Demons of Gambling and Intrigue preside , and on that account is a ...
... fine suite of rooms , called the Conversazione , though from it all conversation seems banished by universal consent : it is , indeed , a temple over which the joint Demons of Gambling and Intrigue preside , and on that account is a ...
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... fine peak rises , called ' La Rupe Ateneat , ' from a tradition that the temple of Minerva and Jupiter Atabyrius stood here , which Gellias , its founder , the most wealthy and * They are more properly styled Grecian . The Etruscans are ...
... fine peak rises , called ' La Rupe Ateneat , ' from a tradition that the temple of Minerva and Jupiter Atabyrius stood here , which Gellias , its founder , the most wealthy and * They are more properly styled Grecian . The Etruscans are ...
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