Four Years in the Ionian Islands: Their Political and Social Condition. With a History of the British Protectorate, 2. kötet |
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... Land - Jonah - How the Water rises in the Holy Well at Cephalonia CHAPTER IV . · A candid French Author , and One the Reverse - The Latin Princes pro- tected the Jews - Judas Iscariot the supposed Corfiot - Author's narrow Escape of ...
... Land - Jonah - How the Water rises in the Holy Well at Cephalonia CHAPTER IV . · A candid French Author , and One the Reverse - The Latin Princes pro- tected the Jews - Judas Iscariot the supposed Corfiot - Author's narrow Escape of ...
vi. oldal
... for Ithaca - Sappho's Leap- Harbour of Vathy - Castle of Ulysses - A Descendant of the latter Fountain of Arethusa - Ithaca a Land of Rocks and Goats - A wel- - PAGE 149 169 CONTENTS . vii come Fountain- " What you please " vi CONTENTS .
... for Ithaca - Sappho's Leap- Harbour of Vathy - Castle of Ulysses - A Descendant of the latter Fountain of Arethusa - Ithaca a Land of Rocks and Goats - A wel- - PAGE 149 169 CONTENTS . vii come Fountain- " What you please " vi CONTENTS .
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... land . The want of large and even of considerable for- tunes is another impediment to the pleasures of society . The laws of succession - entailing per- petual subdivision of property - produce evils which are more quickly felt in a ...
... land . The want of large and even of considerable for- tunes is another impediment to the pleasures of society . The laws of succession - entailing per- petual subdivision of property - produce evils which are more quickly felt in a ...
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... land ) by converting it into- " that which I am unwilling to mention . " * But very excellent men have sometimes been be- trayed into sad breaches of morality . The stain of injustice is a graver charge , and more disgraceful to England ...
... land ) by converting it into- " that which I am unwilling to mention . " * But very excellent men have sometimes been be- trayed into sad breaches of morality . The stain of injustice is a graver charge , and more disgraceful to England ...
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... Land - Jonah - How the Water rises in the Holy Well at Cephalonia . UPON the subject of the Ionian Church I shall not enter into many details . For the difference in the several Eastern Churches is very slight , whilst the general ...
... Land - Jonah - How the Water rises in the Holy Well at Cephalonia . UPON the subject of the Ionian Church I shall not enter into many details . For the difference in the several Eastern Churches is very slight , whilst the general ...
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afterwards amongst appeared Archbishop Argostoli arrived Assembly Athens beautiful believe Bishop British Protectorate Captain carried cause Cepha Cephalonia Cerigo cession Charles Napier chiefly citadel civilization Colonel considered Corfiots Corfu Count currants dinner earthquake England English Englishmen excellent exports fact favour female Focca formed fortifications garrison gentlemen gentry Government greatly Greece Greek Church guns harbour honor inhabitants Ionian Islands Ithaca Jews King ladies Lascarato latter Lixuri lonia Lord High Commissioner Majesty March marriage ment military modern Greek morality morning municipal nation native never night occasion officers palace party Paxo peasantry peasants persons picturesque political priest Prince Alfred proceeded Proveditor regarded Regent Resident respect revenue Royal Highness saint Santa Maura Seven Islands shock Signor Sir Charles Sir Henry Storks Sir John Inglis soldiers steamer tion town Union usually Valaoriti Venetian Vide Appendix Vido walking whilst wife young Zante Zantiots
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114. oldal - Nobody, however, who has paid any attention to the peculiar features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end to which, indeed, all history points, the realization of the Unity of Mankind!
150. oldal - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
150. oldal - Through all their summits tremble Ida's woods, And from their sources boil her hundred floods. Troy's turrets totter on the rocking plain, And the toss'd navies beat the heaving main. Deep in the dismal regions of the dead...
150. oldal - Above, the sire of gods his thunder rolls, And peals on peals redoubled rend the poles. Beneath, stern Neptune shakes the solid ground ; The forests wave, the mountains nod around ; Through all their summits tremble Ida's woods, And from their sources boil her hundred floods.
321. oldal - States, every thing which may relate to the maintenance of the fortresses already existing, as well as to the subsistence and payment of the British garrisons, and to the number of men of which they shall be composed in time of peace. The same Convention shall likewise fix the relations which are to exist between the said armed force and the Ionian Government.
154. oldal - At half-past four that morning occurred the greatest earthquake felt for some years past in the Ionian Islands. In our house every one was fast asleep, in profound darkness; but all were suddenly and startlingly awakened by a tremendous crash. It appeared to me as if the end of all things were at hand, and that I was hastening to eternity! It was as if everything and everybody were falling and crashing together. A violent hurricane of wind, with a noise like the discharge of a huge piece of ordnance,...
139. oldal - But about a month before my visit, all the gates had been removed by order of the local Government, with the consent of the Senate.
181. oldal - ... CHRISTENING. 181 clerk squeaked out the Creed, three times successively, with the most wonderful rapidity. The last twenty minutes of the ceremony were actively employed in torturing the baby. After various crossings and benedictions it was stripped naked, and carried in a cloth by the nurse. The priests then burnt a quantity of incense, and poured plenty of oil into a large iron caldron, previously half filled with tepid water. His reverence now seized the baby, and plunged it three times into...