Travels in the East, tr. from [Reise in den Orient] by W.E. Shuckard |
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... received during my pilgrimage , in- clines me to hope that these reminiscences will also attract favourable regard . The very aspect of my book proves that the tone of its communications is not addressed to the learned : my heart rather ...
... received during my pilgrimage , in- clines me to hope that these reminiscences will also attract favourable regard . The very aspect of my book proves that the tone of its communications is not addressed to the learned : my heart rather ...
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... received us in its splendid harbour on the 19th , I resolved upon remaining for a week at Malta . This island is remarkable from its soil , the peculiarities of its inhabitants , and its history . Surveyed from one of its elevated ...
... received us in its splendid harbour on the 19th , I resolved upon remaining for a week at Malta . This island is remarkable from its soil , the peculiarities of its inhabitants , and its history . Surveyed from one of its elevated ...
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... received the name of Pompey . Von Prokesch says it has received his name as has the grave of Themistocles the renown of his on the shores of the Piræus . It is agree- able indeed to the imagination to conceive that at the foot of this ...
... received the name of Pompey . Von Prokesch says it has received his name as has the grave of Themistocles the renown of his on the shores of the Piræus . It is agree- able indeed to the imagination to conceive that at the foot of this ...
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... received a tinge of justification in the dissipated and deceitful guardianship of the clergy themselves : besides , Mehemet Ali has very recently declared the amount of the whole of his possessions in Wagf , whereby he places it under ...
... received a tinge of justification in the dissipated and deceitful guardianship of the clergy themselves : besides , Mehemet Ali has very recently declared the amount of the whole of his possessions in Wagf , whereby he places it under ...
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... receiving from above an obscure light through two cupolas . The marble sarcophagi placed in the centre are simple and noble . I plucked a few leaves from the palm - tree branches which waved over it . An Oriental tint is given to it by ...
... receiving from above an obscure light through two cupolas . The marble sarcophagi placed in the centre are simple and noble . I plucked a few leaves from the palm - tree branches which waved over it . An Oriental tint is given to it by ...
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