RussiaJ. Duncan, 1825 - 338 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
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עמוד 58 - And level pavement. From the arched roof) Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
עמוד 229 - I should like to be buried there ; and let me beg of you, as you value your old friend, not to suffer any pomp to be used at my funeral ; nor any monument, nor monumental inscription whatsoever, to mark where I am laid : but lay me quietly in the earth, place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten.
עמוד 139 - At midnight the great bell of the cathedral tolled. Its vibrations seemed the rolling of distant thunder; and they were instantly accompanied by the noise of all the bells in Moscow. Every inhabitant was stirring, and the rattling of carriages in the streets was greater than at noonday. The whole city was in a blaze; for lights were seen in all the windows, and innumerable torches in the streets.
עמוד 142 - AND the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
עמוד 214 - ... by our guide arriving to inform us the priest was waiting to conduct us to the relics. We descended a long staircase en ramp, to the mouth of the sacred catacomb, being formed into a regular procession, and each bare-headed, carrying a lighted taper in his hand. It was a labyrinth mined in the solid rock, consisting of walks, chambers, branches, &c., ascending and descending for the distance of several hundred yards; the passage about six feet wide, and coved at the top ; its sides neatly plastered...
עמוד 85 - This law takes effect on his arriving at the age of fifteen. If the proprietor chooses to employ him the other days, he may ; as, for example, in a manufactory: but he then finds him in food and clothing. Mutual advantage, however, generally relaxes this law; and excepting such as are selected for domestic servants, or as above, are .employed in manufactories, the slave pays a certain abrock, or rent, to.
עמוד 36 - These occupy the hindermost row: next to them succeed a regular series of animals, descending gradually to the smallest, intermixed with poultry and game hanging in festoons, and garnished with heaps of fish, butter and eggs.
עמוד 110 - Rome ; terraces and trellisses from Naples ; and warehouses from Wapping. " Having heard accounts of its immense population, you wander through deserted streets. Passing suddenly towards the quarter where the shops are situated, you might walk upon the heads of thousands. The daily throng is there so immense, that, unable to force a passage through it, or assign any motive that might convene "~-*a multitude, you ask the cause ; and are told, that it is always the same.
עמוד 215 - ... money, the offerings of the devotees. The coffins, which were always left open, were of an oblong square figure, decreasing in breadth from the, head downwards, adorned on the interior with flowers of gold painted on a red ground. These personages were the same who once found an asylum here while alive, at a day when the unsettled nature of the times rendered them liable to perpetual persecutions abroad.
עמוד 142 - It is said there is a convent in Moscow where the women are entirely employed in working dresses for the priests. After two hours had been spent in various ceremonies, the archbishop advanced, holding forth a cross, which all the people crowded to embrace, squeezing each other nearly to suffocation. As soon, however, as their eagerness had been somewhat satisfied, he retired to the sacristy; where putting on a plain purple robe, he again advanced, exclaiming three times, in a very loud voice: Christ...