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... hospitable and agreeable way . What I like least in the matter is , that he often can scarcely be prevailed upon to accept any remuneration for the fowls and eggs , which are the only provisions he has to offer ; and sometimes the only ...
... hospitable and agreeable way . What I like least in the matter is , that he often can scarcely be prevailed upon to accept any remuneration for the fowls and eggs , which are the only provisions he has to offer ; and sometimes the only ...
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... At six hours from the hamlet where we had passed the night , we reached Elerígoba , a large Greek village , the houses beau- tifully clustered on a slope above a little upland ELERIGOBA . 49 plain , and with a most hospitable.
... At six hours from the hamlet where we had passed the night , we reached Elerígoba , a large Greek village , the houses beau- tifully clustered on a slope above a little upland ELERIGOBA . 49 plain , and with a most hospitable.
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... hospitable Proëstos , who regaled us with a meat dinner , excellent sweet- meats and wine , and a glass or two of arrack ( a spirituous liquor much used in the East ) , not at all unacceptable after our cold and wet ride . The skies ...
... hospitable Proëstos , who regaled us with a meat dinner , excellent sweet- meats and wine , and a glass or two of arrack ( a spirituous liquor much used in the East ) , not at all unacceptable after our cold and wet ride . The skies ...
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... hospitable | secretary - after being regaled on excellent salt fish , with fruit , sweetmeats , and wine - and in half an hour reached Esphigménu ( ' H Movǹ roυ ' Eopiyuévov ) , situated on the edge of the sea , at the mouth of a ...
... hospitable | secretary - after being regaled on excellent salt fish , with fruit , sweetmeats , and wine - and in half an hour reached Esphigménu ( ' H Movǹ roυ ' Eopiyuévov ) , situated on the edge of the sea , at the mouth of a ...
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... hospitable friends at Batopædion , —the wardens , and other chief fathers here , as in the other monasteries , accompanying me as far as the first rising ground , where they stand as long as I am KARYA . 83 in sight , bowing low with their.
... hospitable friends at Batopædion , —the wardens , and other chief fathers here , as in the other monasteries , accompanying me as far as the first rising ground , where they stand as long as I am KARYA . 83 in sight , bowing low with their.
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abbot Acheron Ægean Agá Albanian Aly Pashá ancient arms beautiful bishop called caloyers century chief Christian cliff Constantinople consul convent Corfu dark Dodona East Eastern Church emperors England English Epirus fathers feet Greek monasteries Gulf Hellenic hills Holy Mountain Homer horses hospitable houses inhabitants Ionian Islands Isboros Joánnina Karyæ khan kharidjí kingdom of Greece lake land Larissa Macedonia Meteora minarets modern monasteries monastic monks morning Moslems mosques Mount Athos neighbouring night Olympus once Oriental Parga Parguinotes passed path Patriarch peasants Peneus peninsula Pindus plain of Thessaly Platamona present Prevesa provinces ride ridge rock Roman ruins saint Sami Pasha scene servant shore side Singitic Gulf Slavonians Stagirus Suli Suliotes Sultan summit surudjí Thessalonica Thessaly tion town traveller Triccala Turkey Turkish Turks valley village Wallachian walls wind wood Zitza εἰς ἐν καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν
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Page 126 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 25 - And a vision appeared to Paul in the night ; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
Page 135 - Soft shall be his pillow. There, through the summer day, Cool streams are laving ; There, while the tempests sway, Scarce are boughs waving ; There, thy rest shalt thou take, Parted for ever, Never again to wake, Never, O never.
Page 198 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Page 57 - ... for such is the fear entertained by the Greek boatmen of the strength and uncertain direction of the currents around Mount Athos, and of the gales and high seas to which the vicinity of the mountain is subject during half the year, and which are rendered more formidable by the deficiency of...
Page 138 - Scilicet et tempus veniet, cum finibus illis agricola incurvo terram molitus aratro exesa inveniet scabra robigine pila, 495 aut gravibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanes, grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulcris.
Page 63 - It is beautifully situated on a commanding height, separated from the shore of a little bay by slopes covered with plantations of olives and oranges. The bay is the termination of a small valley, surrounded by hanging woods, and watered by a torrent.
Page 228 - ... a coat was horribly painful to them. As I walked through the streets and bazaars a dead silence prevailed ; every man suspended his employment, and gazed on me with a fixed, glassy look, which seemed to say, " God is good, but how marvellous and inscrutable are His ways that thus He permits this white-faced dog of a Christian to hunt through the paths of the faithful.
Page 60 - Kkiliandariun (£//u«cvSx^av) is the most northern of the monasteries on the E. side of the peninsula. It is situated nearly a mile from the sea, in a vale watered by a torrent, and surrounded by pine-clad hills. The monks here are almost all Servians or Bulgarians, and a dialect of Slavonian is the only language spoken in the convent or used in the church service.
Page 166 - Pent in this fortress of the North, Think'st thou we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey?