Travels Through Turkey in Asia, the Holy Land, Arabia, Egypt, and Other Parts of the World: ... Particular and Faithul Account of what is Most Remarkable in the Manners, Religion, Polity, Antiquities and Natural History of Those Countries with a Curious Description of Jerusalem ... and Other Places ...Fullarton, 1810 - 703 עמודים |
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עמוד 12
... thing left standing but the walls . One may still discern two Roman eagles indifferently cut in stone near the North - gate , and over the gate a Greek inscription , but so high and defaced that we could 12 TRAVELS THROUGH.
... thing left standing but the walls . One may still discern two Roman eagles indifferently cut in stone near the North - gate , and over the gate a Greek inscription , but so high and defaced that we could 12 TRAVELS THROUGH.
עמוד 16
... thing remains of it but its figure in the ground . It is a kind of pit about two hundred and fifty paces long , and fifty in breadth , one end of it being semicircu- lar , and the other square ; but the walls that enclosed it , as I ...
... thing remains of it but its figure in the ground . It is a kind of pit about two hundred and fifty paces long , and fifty in breadth , one end of it being semicircu- lar , and the other square ; but the walls that enclosed it , as I ...
עמוד 19
... thing he undertakes to describe ; and he seems to have been intent upon introducing into his writings all the most delightful and agreeable objects that nature affords . What is more astonishing in Homer is this , that being the first ...
... thing he undertakes to describe ; and he seems to have been intent upon introducing into his writings all the most delightful and agreeable objects that nature affords . What is more astonishing in Homer is this , that being the first ...
עמוד 21
... thing they desired . Others relate this fable after a different manner , and mythologists give it various inter- pretations . In sculpture or painting , the Cornucopia , or horn of plenty , is represented by a large horn , out of which ...
... thing they desired . Others relate this fable after a different manner , and mythologists give it various inter- pretations . In sculpture or painting , the Cornucopia , or horn of plenty , is represented by a large horn , out of which ...
עמוד 51
... thing as Venice turpentine ; for though there was a turpentine anciently brought from Venice , what now goes by that name comes from Dauphin : è it is liquid , of the consistence of a thick svrup , and whitish ; and flows from the larch ...
... thing as Venice turpentine ; for though there was a turpentine anciently brought from Venice , what now goes by that name comes from Dauphin : è it is liquid , of the consistence of a thick svrup , and whitish ; and flows from the larch ...
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