Oriental outlines; or, A rambler's recollections of a tour in Turkey, Greece, & Tuscany |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Aiasaluk Alessandria ancient appear Argos Armenian arrived Asia Bairakdar barracks bazaars beauty boats Bosphorus cafeneh called camels Cape capital Captain castle ceremony Cerigo chief church coffee Constantinople consulate contains Corfù corps Costantinopoli Cyclades Dardanelles Dardanelli dervishes distance Effendi English entrance Ephesus fire four Frank French frequently Golden Horn grand vizier Greece Greek Gulf guns Hadji Hellespont hills honour houses hundred immediately inhabitants island Janissaries Kaleh Leghorn Mahmoud mihrab miles Moostaffa Morea mosque Mount mountain mufti Mussulmen Mustapha Mytilene Nauplia night Nizam Nizam Djedid Ottoman palace Pasha passed Pera piastres Pisa port present Pyrgo residence ruins sail scene seen Selim seraglio sheik ship shore Sira situate Smirne Smyrna spot Stamboul steamer streets Suda o Canea Sultan Syra tcharshees tekich Tenedos thousand Tino tion town travellers troops Turkey Turkish Turks vessels village walls
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 152 - ... the old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch ), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that binds up the little wound with a hollow bit of shell ; and in this manner opens four or five veins.
עמוד 153 - The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth. Then the fever begins to seize them, and they keep their beds two days, very seldom three. They have very rarely above twenty or thirty in their faces, which never mark ; and in eight days' time, they are as well as before their illness.
עמוד 299 - I have got here into a famous old feudal palazzo, on the Arno, large enough for a garrison, with dungeons below and cells in the walls, and so full of ghosts that the learned Fletcher (my valet) has begged leave to change his room, and then refused to occupy his new room, because there were more ghosts there than in the other.
עמוד 128 - Cheri, or new soldiers); may their countenance be ever bright! their hand victorious ! their sword keen ! may their spear always hang over the heads of their enemies; and wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face \ " Such was the origin of these haughty troops, the terror of the nations, and sometimes of the sultans themselves.
עמוד 9 - Four hours thus scudding on the tide she flew, When Falconera's rocky height they view ; High o'er its summit, through the gloom of night, The glimmering watch-tower cast a mournful light.
עמוד 174 - Justinian and his successors first appeared in the neighbourhood of Pelusium, between the Serbonian bog and the eastern channel of the Nile. From thence, tracing as it were a double path, it spread to the East, over Syria, Persia, and the Indies, and penetrated to the West, along the coast of Africa, and over the continent of Europe. In the spring of the second year, Constantinople, during three or four months, was visited by the pestilence ; and Procopius, who observed its progress and symptoms...
עמוד 152 - The smallpox, so fatal, and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox : they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen...
עמוד 310 - We have been burning the bodies of Shelley and Williams on the sea-shore, to render them fit for removal and regular interment. You can have no idea what an extraordinary effect such a funeral pile has, on a desolate shore, with mountains in the background and the sea before, and the singular appearance the salt and frankincense gave to the flame.
עמוד 280 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
עמוד 127 - ... at Gallipoli, to watch the passage, and to select for his use the stoutest and most beautiful of the Christian youth. The advice was followed: the edict was proclaimed; many thousands of the European captives...