A Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands, Continental Greece, Athens, and the Peloponnesus, the Islands of the Ægean Sea, Albania, Thessaly, and Macedonia |
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... population is Greek in religion and language . This edition was in the first instance revised and enlarged in 1860 by Sir George Ferguson Bowen , the editor of the third edition of the Handbook , who incorporated the notes and ...
... population is Greek in religion and language . This edition was in the first instance revised and enlarged in 1860 by Sir George Ferguson Bowen , the editor of the third edition of the Handbook , who incorporated the notes and ...
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... population , and the ill - judged expenditure of the public revenue , little has hitherto been effected ; and , as the labourer in Greece gains more by the cultivation of his lands than the wages offered by Government , it would be ...
... population , and the ill - judged expenditure of the public revenue , little has hitherto been effected ; and , as the labourer in Greece gains more by the cultivation of his lands than the wages offered by Government , it would be ...
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... population , and which was always administered in the same way as the Continent - the Islands , generally , were left to their own local administrations : the Capitan- pasha , or High Admiral , was their Governor - General , and ...
... population , and which was always administered in the same way as the Continent - the Islands , generally , were left to their own local administrations : the Capitan- pasha , or High Admiral , was their Governor - General , and ...
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... population of Attica alone was almost as great as that of all Greece Proper in 1821 ; and they possessed sailors and soldiers as superior to the Persians in discipline , physical strength , weapons , and spirit , as were the Spaniards ...
... population of Attica alone was almost as great as that of all Greece Proper in 1821 ; and they possessed sailors and soldiers as superior to the Persians in discipline , physical strength , weapons , and spirit , as were the Spaniards ...
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... population of the Russian Empire , of European Turkey , of the kingdom of Greece , and of the Ionian Islands ; and the larger portion of the Christian subjects of the Ottoman Porte in Asia . Altogether it embraces little fewer than ...
... population of the Russian Empire , of European Turkey , of the kingdom of Greece , and of the Ionian Islands ; and the larger portion of the Christian subjects of the Ottoman Porte in Asia . Altogether it embraces little fewer than ...
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Acarnania Acropolis Albanian ancient city antiquity ascends Athenian Athens Athos Attica beautiful Boeotia building built called castle Cephalonia Chalkis chief Christian church coast columns Constantinople Corfu Corinth Crete crosses descends district Doric eastern English entrance Euboea fortress gate Greece Greek Gulf harbour height Hellenic hill Homer Hotel houses inhabitants Ionian Ionian Islands island isthmus Joánnina Kalamata khan Kyparissia lake Leake marble Mesolonghi Messrs miles modern monastery Mount Mount Athos mountains Nauplia nearly neighbouring northern occupied Parthenon Pasha pass Patras Pausanias Peloponnesus peninsula Piræus plain port portico Prevesa probably Propylæa remains ridge river road rock rocky Roman round route ruins Salonica scenery shore side situated slope Sparta steamer steep stone Strabo summit Syra tains Taygetus temple theatre thence Theseus Thessaly tion towers town traces traveller Turkish Turks valley Venetian village Vostitza walls whence Zante
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Page 138 - Look once more, ere we leave this specular mount, Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold, Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands, Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long; There flowery hill Hymettus, with...
Page 201 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 245 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! The fire that on my bosom preys Is lone as some volcanic isle; No torch is kindled, at its blaze — A funeral pile. The hope, the fear, the jealous care, The exalted portion of the pain And power of love, I cannot share, But wear the chain.
Page 34 - In their lowest servitude and depression, the subjects of the Byzantine throne were still possessed of a golden key that could unlock the treasures of antiquity ; of a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.
Page 416 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 138 - Of bees' industrious murmur oft invites To studious musing ; there Ilissus rolls His whispering stream : within the walls then view The schools of ancient sages ; his who bred Great Alexander to subdue the world, Lyceum there, and painted Stoa next...
Page 116 - Ionian blast, Hail the bright clime of battle and of song; Long shall thine annals and immortal tongue Fill with thy fame the youth of many a shore; Boast of the aged! lesson of the young! Which sages venerate and bards adore, As Pallas and the Muse unveil their awful lore.
Page 325 - Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations; — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set, where were they?
Page 138 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life ; High actions and high passions best describing...
Page 325 - The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea. And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free, For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.