Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 1 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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... 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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... the cudgel , As we passed over the strongly fortified isthmus , with its batteries and bastions , trenches and portcullisses , we had the great harbour on our right hand , and on 6 40 HOTEL OF THE LEON D'ORO . our left.
... the cudgel , As we passed over the strongly fortified isthmus , with its batteries and bastions , trenches and portcullisses , we had the great harbour on our right hand , and on 6 40 HOTEL OF THE LEON D'ORO . our left.
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... hands up and down , as if impressed with the magnitude of the design , ex- claimed several times , in a ludicrous tone of voice and elevation of eye- brow , " Quaranta quattro tomi , Signori , quaranta quattro tomi * ! " We found some ...
... hands up and down , as if impressed with the magnitude of the design , ex- claimed several times , in a ludicrous tone of voice and elevation of eye- brow , " Quaranta quattro tomi , Signori , quaranta quattro tomi * ! " We found some ...
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