Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Page 7
... seen covered with combatants , kicking , biting , scratching , and exhibiting all the evolu- tions and manœuvres of the old Pancratic contests . Such a state of things could not be expected to last a long time : indeed this constitu ...
... seen covered with combatants , kicking , biting , scratching , and exhibiting all the evolu- tions and manœuvres of the old Pancratic contests . Such a state of things could not be expected to last a long time : indeed this constitu ...
Page 9
... seen a Sicilian nobleman , a court favourite , and superintendant of a royal palace , seated in an old chair at his own door between his cook and butler , to enjoy a social chat in the cool of the evening . I have also seen the head ...
... seen a Sicilian nobleman , a court favourite , and superintendant of a royal palace , seated in an old chair at his own door between his cook and butler , to enjoy a social chat in the cool of the evening . I have also seen the head ...
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... seen crowned with the ruinated colonnade of Juno Lacinia † surrounded by broken masses of its entablature : next to it is a very fine temple nearly entire , except the roof , commonly supposed to have been dedicated to Concord , being ...
... seen crowned with the ruinated colonnade of Juno Lacinia † surrounded by broken masses of its entablature : next to it is a very fine temple nearly entire , except the roof , commonly supposed to have been dedicated to Concord , being ...
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... , who is full of examples against his theory : it is rather odd too , that he had not seen the Marquis de Nointel's drawings from the pediments of the Parthenon . TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 21 temple of Vulcan ,
... , who is full of examples against his theory : it is rather odd too , that he had not seen the Marquis de Nointel's drawings from the pediments of the Parthenon . TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 21 temple of Vulcan ,
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... seen the celebrated Piscina , a vast reservoir , the con- struction of which employed that portion of Carthaginian prisoners , taken in the battle of Himera , which were allotted to the Agrigentine state . According to Diodorus , whose ...
... seen the celebrated Piscina , a vast reservoir , the con- struction of which employed that portion of Carthaginian prisoners , taken in the battle of Himera , which were allotted to the Agrigentine state . According to Diodorus , whose ...
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