The People of Turkey : Twenty Years' Residence Among Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians, Volume 1

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Stanley Lane Poole
Murray, 1878

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Pagina 7 - CESNOLA'S CYPRUS. Cyprus : its Ancient Cities, Tombs, and Temples. A Narrative of Researches and Excavations during Ten Years
Pagina 5 - A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery, From the Time of the Greeks to the Present Time.
Pagina 22 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of " The Thirty-years
Pagina 22 - Early Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of Paganism in the Roman Empire. 3 Vols. Post Svo. 18>.
Pagina 25 - RAE (EDWARD). Country of the Moors. A Journey from Tripoli in Barbary to the Holy City of Kairwan. Map and Etchings. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. RAMBLES in the Syrian Deserts. Post 8vo. 10«.
Pagina 23 - MUSTERS' (CAPT.) Patagonians; a Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro.
Pagina 158 - From the context of this imperfectly told story, it would appear as if the gypsies could not travel farther until this wheel should revolve : " Nobody appeared to be able to turn it, till, in the midst of their vain efforts, some evil spirit presented himself under the disguise of a sage, and informed the chief, whose name was Chen, that the wheel would be made to turn only when he had married his sister Guin. The chief accepted the advice, the wheel turned round, and the name of the tribe after...
Pagina 110 - ... gives us a picture like the following, of the inner side of a Turkish lady's life : — ' I have often been asked what a Turkish lady does all day long ? Does she sleep or eat sugar-plums, and is she kept under lock and key by a Blue-Beard of a husband, who allows her only the liberty of waiting upon him ? A Turkish lady is certainly shut up in a harem, and there can be no doubt that she is at liberty to indulge in the above-mentioned luxuries should she feel so disposed ; she has possibly, at...
Pagina 4 - BIGG-WITHER (TP). Pioneering in South Brazil; three years of forest and prairie life in the province of Parana. Map and Illustrations. 2 vols. Crown Svo. 24>.

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