An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Volumen10Bradford, 1802 |
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Página 56 - Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars...
Página 210 - The ruins of Baalbek astonish every visitant. Their great delineators, who took only an artistic view of them, say: — 'When we compare them with those of many ancient cities which we visited in Italy, Greece, Egypt, and other parts of Asia, we cannot help thinking them the boldest plan we ever saw attempted in architecture.
Página 216 - Antoninus Pius built a great temple to Jupiter at Heliopolis, near Libanus in Phoenicia, which was one of the wonders of the world.
Página 134 - English miles north-east by east from the city of Baku, on a dry rocky land. There are several ancient temples built with stone, supposed to have been all dedicated to fire. Amongst others is a little temple at which the Indiana now worship.
Página 60 - If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.
Página 85 - ... Portsmouth, on the 12th of August, 1712. His father, Mr Thomas Hanway, was for some years storekeeper in the dockyard at Portsmouth. He was deprived of his life by an accident, and left his widow with four children. Young Jonas was put to school by his mother in London, where he learned writing and accounts, and made some proficiency in Latin. At the age of seventeen he went over to Lisbon, where he arrived in June, 1729, and was bound apprentice to a merchant in that city. His early life was...
Página 192 - After having considered them for some time, we were conducted to a hut belonging to the Arabs, of which there are about thirty in the court of the great temple. The magnificence of that edifice, and the meanness of our habitation, formed a contrast without a parallel.
Página 203 - Christianity could not be long established there ; so that it is not surprising that ecclesiastical history furnishes nothing worth the pains of repeating; and there is no means of knowing what has happened to it, since the destruction of the eastern empire by the Mahometans. Among the...
Página 215 - Many stories are there told of the manner in which he spent his hours of dalliance in this retreat: a subject on which the warm imagination of the Arabs is apt to be too particular.
Página 9 - Pococke says, that at a visit in Egypt, every thing is done with the greatest decency, and the most profound silence, the slaves or servants standing at the bottom of the room, with their hands joined before them, watching with the utmost attention every motion of their master, who commands them by signs.