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... tion of his own estimate of his work . ' I must therefore request the reader to consider this work rather as me- moirs of year of my life , than as a book of travels . I pretend not to tread in the steps of a Chardin , a Tavernier , a ...
... tion of his own estimate of his work . ' I must therefore request the reader to consider this work rather as me- moirs of year of my life , than as a book of travels . I pretend not to tread in the steps of a Chardin , a Tavernier , a ...
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... present day , an uninterrupted series of travels for fourteen centuries , gives us the same facts and the same descriptions . What tradi tion was ever supported by such a host of witnesses Chateaubriand's Travels in Greece . 15.
... present day , an uninterrupted series of travels for fourteen centuries , gives us the same facts and the same descriptions . What tradi tion was ever supported by such a host of witnesses Chateaubriand's Travels in Greece . 15.
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tion was ever supported by such a host of witnesses ? Besides , I have not made all the use of the crusades that I might have done . ' Is it not easy to ascertain exactly in what degree of faith and submissiveness our traveller is an ...
tion was ever supported by such a host of witnesses ? Besides , I have not made all the use of the crusades that I might have done . ' Is it not easy to ascertain exactly in what degree of faith and submissiveness our traveller is an ...
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tion , why the architecture of the Parthenon has such exquisite proportions ; why ancient sculpture is so unaffected , so tranquil , so simple , when you have beheld the pure sky , and the delicious scenery , of Athens , of Corinth ...
tion , why the architecture of the Parthenon has such exquisite proportions ; why ancient sculpture is so unaffected , so tranquil , so simple , when you have beheld the pure sky , and the delicious scenery , of Athens , of Corinth ...
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... tion upon the Reformers , -merely because in matters of at least equal moment to the well - being of man , they discovered , if possible , a greater degree of generous and ardent enthusiasm . But besides that the objects were of too ...
... tion upon the Reformers , -merely because in matters of at least equal moment to the well - being of man , they discovered , if possible , a greater degree of generous and ardent enthusiasm . But besides that the objects were of too ...
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