Servia, the youngest member of the European family or, a residence in Belgrade, and travels in the highlands and woodlands of the interior, during the years 1843 and 1844Longman, 1845 - 352 pages |
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... natural boundary of the State , and that some morning they would make a breakfast of the whole question . One day he passed from politics to religion . " I am fond of fun , " said he , " I think it is the sign of a clear conscience . My ...
... natural boundary of the State , and that some morning they would make a breakfast of the whole question . One day he passed from politics to religion . " I am fond of fun , " said he , " I think it is the sign of a clear conscience . My ...
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... nature and Dutch art . The Nore , the Downs , the Frith of Forth , and sundry dor- mant Backhuysens , re - awoke to my fancy . The moral interest too was different . In Egypt or Syria , where whole cycles of civilization lie entombed ...
... nature and Dutch art . The Nore , the Downs , the Frith of Forth , and sundry dor- mant Backhuysens , re - awoke to my fancy . The moral interest too was different . In Egypt or Syria , where whole cycles of civilization lie entombed ...
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... nature , appears to have caused a great deal of talk among the Turks . I expressed little faith in its success ; on which he ordered an at- tendant to bring him a drawing of a locomotive balloon steered by flags and all sorts of fancies ...
... nature , appears to have caused a great deal of talk among the Turks . I expressed little faith in its success ; on which he ordered an at- tendant to bring him a drawing of a locomotive balloon steered by flags and all sorts of fancies ...
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... nature got the better of my gallantry ; the discourse flagged , and then dropped , for I found myself in the midst ... natural portals , formed of lofty precipitous rocks , succeeds the open smiling valley , the ver- dant meadows , and ...
... nature got the better of my gallantry ; the discourse flagged , and then dropped , for I found myself in the midst ... natural portals , formed of lofty precipitous rocks , succeeds the open smiling valley , the ver- dant meadows , and ...
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... nature by the " memory of joys that were past , pleasant and mournful to the soul . " I then took a Turkish bath ; but the inferiority of those in Belgrade to similar luxuries in Con- stantinople , Damascus , and Cairo , was strikingly ...
... nature by the " memory of joys that were past , pleasant and mournful to the soul . " I then took a Turkish bath ; but the inferiority of those in Belgrade to similar luxuries in Con- stantinople , Damascus , and Cairo , was strikingly ...
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