Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 393 pages |
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Page 10
... turned out quite as delusive to the people as its prototype , for all these valuable lots invariably find their way ... turning to infidelity , in others to a vile debasement of intel- lect , and in some to downright blasphemy ; for ...
... turned out quite as delusive to the people as its prototype , for all these valuable lots invariably find their way ... turning to infidelity , in others to a vile debasement of intel- lect , and in some to downright blasphemy ; for ...
Page 23
... turned into a vast mural cemetery ; in one fragment alone I counted twenty - three niches or sarcophagi . The eastern and western cliffs , which formed boundaries on those sides , contain no monuments worthy of particular remark ...
... turned into a vast mural cemetery ; in one fragment alone I counted twenty - three niches or sarcophagi . The eastern and western cliffs , which formed boundaries on those sides , contain no monuments worthy of particular remark ...
Page 25
... turned into his funeral pile at the conquest of the city by the Carthaginians : the barbarians being about to violate the sanctity of his asylum , he set fire to the edifice , and was consumed together with his treasures and his friends ...
... turned into his funeral pile at the conquest of the city by the Carthaginians : the barbarians being about to violate the sanctity of his asylum , he set fire to the edifice , and was consumed together with his treasures and his friends ...
Page 33
... turned into a frightful source of that guilt which they are devised to correct . As a gaol delivery never takes place , these receptacles are crowded to excess with wretches of the most abandoned character ; and as no classification is ...
... turned into a frightful source of that guilt which they are devised to correct . As a gaol delivery never takes place , these receptacles are crowded to excess with wretches of the most abandoned character ; and as no classification is ...
Page 42
... turned towards an angle of the bastion , from whence I perceived a very strong ebullient spring rising with con- siderable violence to the surface of the water . It is called l'Occhio di Zilica , and is supposed by Arezzi and others to ...
... turned towards an angle of the bastion , from whence I perceived a very strong ebullient spring rising with con- siderable violence to the surface of the water . It is called l'Occhio di Zilica , and is supposed by Arezzi and others to ...
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