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... interest than his first rough sketch from nature . I have to apologize , however , for the frequent egotism which the adherence to the form of a diary renders it impossible to avoid . It is strange that so few of the many English- men ...
... interest than his first rough sketch from nature . I have to apologize , however , for the frequent egotism which the adherence to the form of a diary renders it impossible to avoid . It is strange that so few of the many English- men ...
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... in my little schooner , of ten days from Corfu , during which time we visited Ithaca , Mesolongi - that Zaragoza of Greece- and other places of great interest . We have had 4 ESTIMATION OF ENGLISHMEN . some stiff breezes , but B 2.
... in my little schooner , of ten days from Corfu , during which time we visited Ithaca , Mesolongi - that Zaragoza of Greece- and other places of great interest . We have had 4 ESTIMATION OF ENGLISHMEN . some stiff breezes , but B 2.
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... . To the ecclesiastical student belong the incongruities ; but to him also belongs the 1 See the excellent essay on Mount Athos in the Christian Remembrancer for April , 1851 . GREEK MONASTERIES . 15 greatest share of interest . He.
... . To the ecclesiastical student belong the incongruities ; but to him also belongs the 1 See the excellent essay on Mount Athos in the Christian Remembrancer for April , 1851 . GREEK MONASTERIES . 15 greatest share of interest . He.
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... interest . He will find the reli- gion of the middle ages still living and breathing in the nineteenth century , with its many miracles , its simple credulity , its cumbrous ceremonial , its dense ignorance . He will see the long ...
... interest . He will find the reli- gion of the middle ages still living and breathing in the nineteenth century , with its many miracles , its simple credulity , its cumbrous ceremonial , its dense ignorance . He will see the long ...
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... interest for the future ; as at what period the Cross is destined again to crown St. Sophia's dome . I felt much of the melancholy experienced at parting with a much- admired friend whom I should never probably see again ; and it is on ...
... interest for the future ; as at what period the Cross is destined again to crown St. Sophia's dome . I felt much of the melancholy experienced at parting with a much- admired friend whom I should never probably see again ; and it is on ...
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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?