Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Page 7
... ground was literally seen covered with combatants , kicking , biting , scratching , and exhibiting all the evolu- tions and manoeuvres of the old Pancratic contests . Such a state of things could not be expected to last a long time ...
... ground was literally seen covered with combatants , kicking , biting , scratching , and exhibiting all the evolu- tions and manoeuvres of the old Pancratic contests . Such a state of things could not be expected to last a long time ...
Page 9
... ground would be submitted to a person desirous to purchase . Both men and women are ill dressed , and appear still worse to an English- man who sees the old cast - off fashions of his country revived here in the highest circles : in ...
... ground would be submitted to a person desirous to purchase . Both men and women are ill dressed , and appear still worse to an English- man who sees the old cast - off fashions of his country revived here in the highest circles : in ...
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... grounds , and the excellence of their produce ; but , however abundant this may have been , however advantageous in commercial exchange , it will never account for the almost unexampled prosperity of a state whose whole territory ...
... grounds , and the excellence of their produce ; but , however abundant this may have been , however advantageous in commercial exchange , it will never account for the almost unexampled prosperity of a state whose whole territory ...
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... ground through which it flowed , iv ra ya åкpa - See also an epigram quoted by Diogenes La- ertius , lib . viii . : Ὦ φίλοι οι μέγα ἄτυ κατὰ ξανθς Ακράγαντος Νάιετε ΑΚΡΑ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ , & c . To this river the people paid divine honours ...
... ground through which it flowed , iv ra ya åкpa - See also an epigram quoted by Diogenes La- ertius , lib . viii . : Ὦ φίλοι οι μέγα ἄτυ κατὰ ξανθς Ακράγαντος Νάιετε ΑΚΡΑ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ , & c . To this river the people paid divine honours ...
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... ground in Sicily , stands Castro Giovanni , as near as possible in the centre of the island * . Its great elevation gives it so delightful a temperature during the violent heats of summer , that many foreigners and Sicilian families ...
... ground in Sicily , stands Castro Giovanni , as near as possible in the centre of the island * . Its great elevation gives it so delightful a temperature during the violent heats of summer , that many foreigners and Sicilian families ...
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