Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Through Egypt, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1835 |
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Abbé altar ancient antiquity appeared Arabs Argos arrived Athenians Athens Attica beauty beheld Bethlehem Cape castle celebrated Chandler Choiseul Christian church citadel coast columns Constantinople consul convent Corinth Coron d'Anville Dead Sea descended desert discovered drogman east edifices Eleusis erected Eurotas Father Fauvel foot formerly French French consul Greece Greek harbour hill Holy Land Homer honour horses Hymettus island Jaffa janissary Jerusalem Jordan Joseph Judea Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians Laconia letter Lord Elgin marble Megara Messenia Methone Minerva Misitra modern Modon monuments Morea Mount mountains native night pacha Parthenon passed Pausanias Peloponnese perceived pilgrims Piræus plain port prince returned river road rock Roman ruins of Sparta sacred says seen Sepulchre shore side Smyrna Sparta Spon spot summit Sunium Taygetus temple theatre tion tomb town travellers trees Tripolizza Turkish Turks valley Venetians vessel village walls wind
Populaire passages
Pagina 326 - Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Pagina 332 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Pagina 170 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Pagina 266 - Greeks might have their share in the glory of the day, he sent them presents out of the spoil : to the Athenians in particular he sent three hundred bucklers. Upon the rest of the spoils he put this pompous inscription : " Won by Alexander the son of Philip, and the Greeks (excepting the Lacedaemonians,) of the barbarians in Asia.
Pagina 350 - Mr. Murray, if you insist upon your bitter Osher simile, why shut your eyes to the palpable analogy suggested? Naturalists assert that the Solanum, or apple of Sodom, contains in its normal state neither dust nor ashes ; unless it is punctured by an insect, (the Tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rind entire, without any loss of color. Human life is as fair and tempting as the fruit of 'Ain Jidy,' till stung and poisoned by the Tenthredo of sin.
Pagina 328 - As the roof of this nave is wanting, the columns support nothing but a frieze of wood, which occupies the place of the architrave and of the whole entablature. Open timber-work rests upon the walls, and rises into the form of a dome, to support a roof that no longer exists, or that perhaps was never finished.
Pagina 222 - No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe no husbandmen, you meet no carts, no teams of oxen. Nothing can be more melancholy than never to be able to discover the marks of modern wheels, where you still perceive in the rock the traces of ancient ones.
Pagina 330 - I entered it, the superior put a taper into my hand, and repeated a brief exhortation. This sacred crypt is irregular, because it occupies the irregular site of the stable and the manger. It is thirty-seven feet six inches long, eleven feet three inches broad, and nine feet in height. It is hewn out of tne rock, the sides of which are 'faced with beautiful marble, and the floor is of the same material.
Pagina 305 - When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Pagina 181 - Pantheon, with its disproportionate pediment. The comparison may be easily made at Athens, where the Grecian architecture is often placed quite close to the architecture of Rome. I had fallen into a common error respecting the monuments of the Greeks : I had an idea that they were perfect as a whole, but deficient in grandeur...