Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 393 pages |
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... natural and artificial curiosities of Gibraltar , our residence was protracted by the agreeable society and hospitality which it afforded , and was diversified by an excursion into Morocco , as well as by a tour in the south of Spain ...
... natural and artificial curiosities of Gibraltar , our residence was protracted by the agreeable society and hospitality which it afforded , and was diversified by an excursion into Morocco , as well as by a tour in the south of Spain ...
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... nature and brighter prospects appear to hang over the destinies of Spain . April 10th . - Having bid a final adieu to Gibraltar , we proceeded , from necessity more than choice , to Alicante , which was at this time the seat of war , on ...
... nature and brighter prospects appear to hang over the destinies of Spain . April 10th . - Having bid a final adieu to Gibraltar , we proceeded , from necessity more than choice , to Alicante , which was at this time the seat of war , on ...
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... natural world there is an inexhaustible variety of good , which constitutes perhaps the greatest charm of ex- istence ; and , though it must be confessed , that no form of government has ever been devised , so admirably calculated to ...
... natural world there is an inexhaustible variety of good , which constitutes perhaps the greatest charm of ex- istence ; and , though it must be confessed , that no form of government has ever been devised , so admirably calculated to ...
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... Nature traced out its plan in a vast platform of rock ; Art Strabo erred in calling it an Ionian colony : it was planted by the people of Gela , who derived their origin from Rhodes , and the Rhodians were of Dorian descent . Hence the ...
... Nature traced out its plan in a vast platform of rock ; Art Strabo erred in calling it an Ionian colony : it was planted by the people of Gela , who derived their origin from Rhodes , and the Rhodians were of Dorian descent . Hence the ...
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... the Doric order , but surrounded with a peristyle . Eliac . c . x . 2 . + Thus , as Diodorus Siculus observes , it partook of the nature of a dipteral temple and one in Antis . TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 19 the manner of caryatids.
... the Doric order , but surrounded with a peristyle . Eliac . c . x . 2 . + Thus , as Diodorus Siculus observes , it partook of the nature of a dipteral temple and one in Antis . TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 19 the manner of caryatids.
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