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Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  5  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 5 Scape, communicate such a high degree of cheerfulness during a journey or a voyage in Greece: for whether the traveller be upon its continent, or visiting its islands, a succession of new objects is continually presenting itself 1; and in places which are contiguous in situation, he may witness a more striking change, both as to natural and to moral objects, than would be found in other countries, for example in Russia, if he were to traverse a very considerable por tion of the globe. After all, an author, in the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  5

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 5 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 5: Part the Second; Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land; Section the Second Travels, will enable the Reader to form a tale rable estimate of the probable compass of the entire Work; and it may serve to prove, that the author, if he should live to complete his undertaking, will not have exceeded his original estimate, in the account of a journey through forty-five degrees of longitude, and nearly forty degrees of latitude. In his endeavour to coneen trate the subject, he may have omitted observa tions which a particular class of Readers would have preferred to those which have been inserted. He has sometimes, for example, sacrificed statistical notices, that he might introduce his torical information, where Antient History is pre-eminently interesting; and again, on the other hand, he has purposely omitted much that he had written on the subject of Antiquities, that he might insert a few remarks upon the Egyptian and Grecian scenery, and upon the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia  and Africa  Vol  2

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 2 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Vol. 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land Wusn the author published the first volume of these Travels, he proposed to divide the work into three por tions. The observations made in Greece, Syria, and Egypt, were reserved for the astond part; whether con sisting of one volume, or of more than one. This plan it still pursued; but from the very perplexed state of the geography of the country alluded to by the word Syria the less exce tionable appellation of Paladins was sub stituted, in t e second edition, for that of Syria. The same perplexity has again induced the author to alter what he had thus written, and to consider the present pub lication as containing observations made in Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia  and Africa  Vol  4

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 4 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Vol. 4: Part II, Section II; Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land Temperature of the Atmosphere, ace de during the J unrue with a corresponding Statement of. The: Temperature in Englan during the same period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  3

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 3 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 3: Part the Second; Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land The geography of the Country alluded to, by the several names of Syria, Palaestine, the Holy Land, the Land of Canaan, the Land of Juda'a, and the Land of Promise, is so exceedingly perplexed, that a few observations, written with a View to its illustration, will, it is hoped, be considered as an useful introduction to this PA r_t of the author 5 Travels, 111 which the survey of that Country occupies a considerable share. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  1  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 1 Letter to Mr. Whittington from Casan, dated May l6th, 1807. I left Moscow on Tuesday the 5th of May; and the first town at which I arrived was Vladimir, formerly the capital of an independent sovereignty, and the residence of a Grand Duke. The accommodations are such as are alone to be met with all over M uscovy one room, in which you sleep with the whole family, in the midst of a most suffocating heat and smell; no furniture to be found, but a bench and table and an absolute dearth of provisions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  8  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 8 Classic Reprint written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 8 Cha P. I. Onyx Intaglio, found by the Mud-washers of Constanti naple, representing the Flight qfxeneas from Troy. Drawn from the original Gem by Mrs. Edward Clarke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  2

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 2 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 2: Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land; Section the First Terra sancta originated in the writings of Christians, who indefinitely applied it to that district of Syria me; morable for the sufferings of our Saviour; but the name existed before the Christian aera. The epithet of Holy had been applied to every thing connected with the Jewish people; among whom, not only their cities, their priests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia  and Africa  Vol  7

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 7 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Vol. 7: Part the Second, Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land A Careful revisal of the d104, and a few additions to the Notes, are all the alterations which have been made in reprinting this Section of the Second Part of the Author's Travels. A particular attention has been paid to the inserting with accuracy the Orchomenian Inscriptions; and especially that very antient record, which is rendered remarkable by its distinctions of dialect, and by the recurrence of the digamma, in page 192. The Rev. Peter Paul Dobree, M. A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has himself compared the author's copy of this last-mentioned Inscription with the original in the British Museum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  2

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 2 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 2: Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land; Section the Third I N publishing all that remains to complete the second part of these Travels, the author has the satisfaction of making. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  2

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 2 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 2: Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land; Section the Second The Catalogue of the Patmos Library, communicated by the marquis 'of sligo; and the Remarks madeaby Mr. Walpole, not only upon that Catalogue', but also upon the Libraries of Greece; will, it is hoped, be considered as valuable additions to this Work. The author is desirous also to mention his obligation to the last of these Gentlemen, for the assistance he has rendered in the illustration of many of the Inscriptions. Nor can he pass in silence the advantages he has derived from the Manuscript Journal of his friend and companion, Mr. Cripps; particularly in that part of his Travels which relates to egypt; where the continuation of his own narrative was Often interrupted by fatigue or by illness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  8

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 8 written by E. D. Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 8: Part the Second; Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land Chap. I. Onyx Intaglio, found by the Mud-washers of Constanti nople; representing the Flight oft/ema? From Troy. Drawn from the original Gem by Mrs. Edward Clarhe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  6

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 6 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 6: Part the Second: Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land; Section the Second First, of some of the Medici family, of Bessarion, Busbech', and Peiresc, are held in just esti mation by the lovers of ancient literature. By their means the Libraries of Eur-ape have been furnished with great numbers of valuable Manuscripts, collected with cost and labour, in different parts of the Levant. The first of these persons laid the foundation of the vatican library, and supplied it with many Manu scripts from Greece. From the same country, Francis the First, at the exhortation of Budams. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  3

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 3 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 3: Scandinavia, Section the First Their residence, it is true, is well attested by the monuments alluded to that is to say, the monuments of a colonial settlement; but nothing more. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  6  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 6 Classic Reprint written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 6 These Remarks of Mr. Walpole being too long to be inserted in the Notes, among the Extracts from his MS. Journal, the Author has prefixed them as an appropriate Introduction to this Volume. The names of Nicholas the Fifth, of Francis the First, of some of the Medici family, of Bessarion, Busbeck, and Peiresc, are held in just estimation by the lovers of antient literature. By their means, the Libraries of Europe have been furnished with great numbers of valuable Manuscripts, collected with cost and labour, in different parts of the Levant. The first of these persons laid the foundation of the Vatican Library, and supplied it with many Manuscripts from Greece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia  and Africa  Vol  2

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 2 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Vol. 2: Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land, Section 1 Sn the author published the first Volume of these Travels, he proposed to divide the work into three per tions. The observations made in Greece, Syria, and Egypt, were reserved for the second part; whether cona sisting of One volume, or of more than one. This plan is still pursued; but from the very per lexed state of the geography of the country alluded to the word Syria the less exes tionable appellation of itiwsttns was not stituted, in he second e ltion for that of Syria. The same perplexity has again induced the author to alter what he had thus written, and to consider the present pub licetion ss contalnln observations made in Greece, Egflt, and the Holy and. To several names of Saris, Palestine, theholy Land, the Land of Canaan, the act of Judas, and the Land of Promise, have been used indiscriminately with reference to a particular territory, or separate]! Applied to difl'erent parts of it. Neither ancient nor mo ern geographers are agreed as to the precise limits intendedby either of these a pellations. According to some authors, Syria, Phos n co, and Palestine. Were three distinct regions. Others include, within the Syrian frontier, not only Phoenice and Palmstine, but also Mesopotamia. Strabo describes Syria 'as comprehending all the country from Mount Amanus and the river Euphrates to Arabia and to Egypt.(a) The word Palaestine occurs only once, incidentally, in all his writings.( b) Yet the name was in use above four. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Travels in Various Countries of Europe  Asia and Africa  Vol  4

Download or read book Travels in Various Countries of Europe Asia and Africa Vol 4 written by Edward Daniel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Vol. 4: Part the Second; Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land Return to' the Fleet - Nelson's Island - lantiquities - Rosetta - Trilinguar Inscription - Scarabaeus Pilularius - Curious Edifice in Rosetta, (f the Gothic form - Voyage to Cyprus - Appearance of the island - Salines - Hot lvinds - Larneca - Insalubrity of the Island - Produce of the Land - Wine of Cyprus - tetched Condition Qf' the country-phoenician Idols - Nature of the Cyprian Venus - Ancient Gems - Signet Rings - Origin of the Camachuia - Thelzan Stone - Paintings commemorated upon Gems - Notice of a Picture by Zeuxis from an ancient Greek Manuscript - Substances used for the Signets (f Cyprus - their most anczentform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.