Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1J. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... stood to carve the meat : no very high estimate of manners will be formed where both sexes spit without ceremony upon the floor of a drawing - room , and carry off in their pockets confectionary and other relics of a dinner . VOL . I ...
... stood to carve the meat : no very high estimate of manners will be formed where both sexes spit without ceremony upon the floor of a drawing - room , and carry off in their pockets confectionary and other relics of a dinner . VOL . I ...
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... stood six majestic temples , of that severe Doric order , which so happily com- bines elegance and simplicity with solidity and grandeur . The S.E. angle is still seen crowned with the ruinated colonnade of Juno Lacinia † surrounded by ...
... stood six majestic temples , of that severe Doric order , which so happily com- bines elegance and simplicity with solidity and grandeur . The S.E. angle is still seen crowned with the ruinated colonnade of Juno Lacinia † surrounded by ...
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... stood enormous statues , thirty feet in height , representing the giants , who having been vanquished in the Titanic war were represented here , after The All the editions of Diodorus have 60 ; an incredible supposition in itself ...
... stood enormous statues , thirty feet in height , representing the giants , who having been vanquished in the Titanic war were represented here , after The All the editions of Diodorus have 60 ; an incredible supposition in itself ...
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... stood here , which Gellias , its founder , the most wealthy and * They are more properly styled Grecian . The Etruscans are supposed to have been originally a Celtic tribe , which settled in Etruria about one thousand years before ...
... stood here , which Gellias , its founder , the most wealthy and * They are more properly styled Grecian . The Etruscans are supposed to have been originally a Celtic tribe , which settled in Etruria about one thousand years before ...
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... stood . Ejus porro minima atque indigna hodie spectantur vestigia : nam cum præcipiti loco staret , temporis processu cum montis visceribus in præceps collapsum est . " - Fazzello , Decad . prior , lib . ix . 66 + Cicero makes a neat ...
... stood . Ejus porro minima atque indigna hodie spectantur vestigia : nam cum præcipiti loco staret , temporis processu cum montis visceribus in præceps collapsum est . " - Fazzello , Decad . prior , lib . ix . 66 + Cicero makes a neat ...
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Acradina acropolis adorned Albanian amidst amongst ancient antiquity Apollo appearance Arethusa Argive Argos arrived Athenian Athens beautiful called cavern celebrated character church Cicero citadel Cockerell curious Cyclopéan Cyclopes dedicated deity Delphi Dionysius discovered Dodona edifice Epirus excavations feet festival Grecian Greece Greek ground harbour head height honour inhabitants inscription Ioannina island Jupiter magnificent marble Messina modern Molossian monuments Morea mountains Mycena noble observed oracle ornament Ortygia palace pasha Pausan Pausanias plain Plutarch Polybius possession Prevesa probably remains rock Roman ruins sacred scarcely scene scenery seems sepulchre shew Sicilian Sicily side Signore soon spot statue stone stood Strabo summit supposed Syracusan Syracuse tatar temple theatre Thesprotia tion Tiryns tomb tower traveller Turkish Turks tyrant vaivode vizir walls whilst Zacynthus Zante δὲ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ μὲν τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τῷ τῶν