Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... hands of a liberated monarch , who in his captivity was the idol of their blind attachment , for whom their best blood was spilt , and whose name was joined in all their aspirations after liberty . But Ferdinand seems at length to be ...
... hands of a liberated monarch , who in his captivity was the idol of their blind attachment , for whom their best blood was spilt , and whose name was joined in all their aspirations after liberty . But Ferdinand seems at length to be ...
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... hands . After about a month's residence in Palermo we prepared to gratify our curiosity in visiting the remains of those magnificent cities , which abounded in this once flourishing island , and still attest , even in their fall , that ...
... hands . After about a month's residence in Palermo we prepared to gratify our curiosity in visiting the remains of those magnificent cities , which abounded in this once flourishing island , and still attest , even in their fall , that ...
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... hand as you advance westward , are the remains of a long building raised on pilasters , and which , from its situation near the sea - gate , did very probably form part of the ancient forum of this great commercial city . But of all the ...
... hand as you advance westward , are the remains of a long building raised on pilasters , and which , from its situation near the sea - gate , did very probably form part of the ancient forum of this great commercial city . But of all the ...
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... hand , near the sea - gate , a curious square building of composite architecture , which has been generally ... hands of the Romans . It is conjectured by some to have been one of those monuments which the Agrigentines were in the habit ...
... hand , near the sea - gate , a curious square building of composite architecture , which has been generally ... hands of the Romans . It is conjectured by some to have been one of those monuments which the Agrigentines were in the habit ...
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... terrific group which might vie with the imaginary horrors of a Dante . In about five minutes , life being quite extinct , the body was lowered upon the ground ; the head 36 EXECUTION AT PALERMO . and hands were cut off F 2.
... terrific group which might vie with the imaginary horrors of a Dante . In about five minutes , life being quite extinct , the body was lowered upon the ground ; the head 36 EXECUTION AT PALERMO . and hands were cut off F 2.
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