Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... nearly as much fluency as in their own : the same encomiums will apply , in every particular , to the family of the Duke di Sangro ; and I should be very much wanting in gratitude , if I omitted to mention the continuance of that ...
... nearly as much fluency as in their own : the same encomiums will apply , in every particular , to the family of the Duke di Sangro ; and I should be very much wanting in gratitude , if I omitted to mention the continuance of that ...
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... nearly crushed the monster in the higher ranks . No such thing is ever dreamt of in Palermo , as a preventive police , where the streets are lighted by a few glimmering tapers that burn before the images of saints and martyrs ; and when ...
... nearly crushed the monster in the higher ranks . No such thing is ever dreamt of in Palermo , as a preventive police , where the streets are lighted by a few glimmering tapers that burn before the images of saints and martyrs ; and when ...
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... nearly extinct , and break the fetters of a nation who rather chose to hug them , that civil liberty was received with an hypocrisy more injurious to its cause than open enmity , and that returning without any efforts of the people , it ...
... nearly extinct , and break the fetters of a nation who rather chose to hug them , that civil liberty was received with an hypocrisy more injurious to its cause than open enmity , and that returning without any efforts of the people , it ...
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... nearly two - thirds of the whole population of Sicily at the present day . + " altor equorum Mille rapit turmam atque hinnitibus aera flammat Pulveream volvens Acragas ad inania nubem . " Sil . Ital . xiv . 209 . " magnanimùm quondam ...
... nearly two - thirds of the whole population of Sicily at the present day . + " altor equorum Mille rapit turmam atque hinnitibus aera flammat Pulveream volvens Acragas ad inania nubem . " Sil . Ital . xiv . 209 . " magnanimùm quondam ...
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... nearly square , is elevated to a very considerable height above the surrounding territory ; its perpendicular precipices formed the basis for walls ; ravines penetrating into the interior offered most commodious situations for gates ...
... nearly square , is elevated to a very considerable height above the surrounding territory ; its perpendicular precipices formed the basis for walls ; ravines penetrating into the interior offered most commodious situations for gates ...
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Acradina acropolis admiration adorned Agathocles Agrigentum Albanian amidst amongst Anapus ancient antiquity Apollo appeared Arethusa Argive Argos arrived ascended Athenian Athens beautiful called Catania cavern celebrated Cephalonia character church Cicero citadel curious Cyclopéan Cyclopes dedicated deity Delphi Dionysius discovered edifice Epipolæ erected Etna excavations extraordinary Fazzello feet festival formed Grecian Greece Greek harbour head height honour inhabitants inscription island Jupiter lava magnificent marble Messina modern monument Morea Mount Etna mountains Mycena noble observed ornament Ortygia Palermo pasha Pausan Pausanias plain Plutarch poet Polybius probably remains rock Roman ruins sacred scarcely scene sculpture seems sepulchre shew Sicilian Sicily side Signore soon spot statue stone stood Strabo summit supposed Syracusan Syracuse tatar temple theatre tion Tiryns tomb tower traveller Turkish Turks tyrant vaivode vases walls whilst Zacynthus Zante δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ τὸν τῶν