Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 1 pages |
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... noble edifices * . Imagination can scarcely conceive a more glorious prospect than that which the southern cliff of this great city once displayed , surmounted by a long unbroken line of the finest monuments of Grecian art ! Amongst ...
... noble edifices * . Imagination can scarcely conceive a more glorious prospect than that which the southern cliff of this great city once displayed , surmounted by a long unbroken line of the finest monuments of Grecian art ! Amongst ...
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... noble birth . The annual stipend of our host did not exceed forty - five dollars ; the daily fare in the refectory was of Pythagorean simplicity ; a little shell - fish , eggs , salad , and bread , formed the principal diet , wine being ...
... noble birth . The annual stipend of our host did not exceed forty - five dollars ; the daily fare in the refectory was of Pythagorean simplicity ; a little shell - fish , eggs , salad , and bread , formed the principal diet , wine being ...
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... noble towers , raised for its defence by the celebrated Agathocles , and inscribed with his name † : the great Dionysius furnished it with an excellent arsenal or dock , capable of containing sixty triremes , shut in by gates which ...
... noble towers , raised for its defence by the celebrated Agathocles , and inscribed with his name † : the great Dionysius furnished it with an excellent arsenal or dock , capable of containing sixty triremes , shut in by gates which ...
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... noble structure ; but in 1704 , the magazine being struck with lightning , 300 barrels of gunpowder exploded , and blew the greatest part of it into the air , destroying thirty - three Spaniards belonging to the garrison . Although a ...
... noble structure ; but in 1704 , the magazine being struck with lightning , 300 barrels of gunpowder exploded , and blew the greatest part of it into the air , destroying thirty - three Spaniards belonging to the garrison . Although a ...
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... noble paintings , amongst which was an equestrian combat of King Agathocles , considered one of the rarest works of Syracusan skill : seven - and - twenty more admirable pictures did the infamous prætor carry off from this sanctuary ...
... noble paintings , amongst which was an equestrian combat of King Agathocles , considered one of the rarest works of Syracusan skill : seven - and - twenty more admirable pictures did the infamous prætor carry off from this sanctuary ...
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