A Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount AthosW. G. and sold by M. Pitt, 1678 - 112 σελίδες |
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A Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos I. S. Ph Ge Rgarin S Δεν υπάρχει διαθέσιμη προεπισκόπηση - 2016 |
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Σελίδα 65 - Miles distance; sometimes at four or five, where the Valleys interpos'd between two hills, give advantage to the Voice. Sometimes they can discourse at that distance, that the carriage of the Sound through the Winding of the Valleys, shall require half a Quarter of an Hours time; and yet they make distinct, and proper Answers, both audible and intelligible, without the help of a Stentorophonical Trumpet.
Σελίδα 69 - From Hand to Mouth. They have but little, yet they never Want. Their Ignorance is equal to their Poverty , and contributes much to their content. And how well they...
Σελίδα 80 - The island is well stored with vines, fig trees, lemon and orange trees, and corn sufficient for the inhabitants, if they could keep what they have free from the robbery of pirates, as well Christian as Mohammedan, who often pillage the poor people who have no other remedy than patience.
Σελίδα 79 - People report to have lodg'd in a great Cave in this Rock - which Cave they yet believe to be haunted by Devils. For once letting down a? Man n Befttiption of Man into't by a Cord for curiofity \ to fee what was in.
Σελίδα 15 - Wood, and let out rom the bottom of the Furnace into a hole made in the Ground, where it continues like Oyl ; Then they put Fire...
Σελίδα 37 - So that wearied with their injuries, he retired to the Holy Grotto of the Apocalypse, in the Isle of Patmos. " After he had voluntarily retir'd from his Arch-Bishoprick, the Patriarch of Constantinople did presently substitute in his place Philaretus of the Isle of Siphanto.
Σελίδα 64 - Dimity. They have no great communication one with another, any farther than the publick times of Sacred Solemnities , or Civil Bufinefs doth caufe them to come together.
Σελίδα 69 - Pirates. Their Diet and Apparel is below the Rate of Beggars in other Countrys , and their Lodging is a...
Σελίδα 76 - In process of time their huts were changed into fair houses, and by trade and commerce became a great town, to the number of eight hundred houses, and were inhabited by rich merchants that traded into all parts.
Σελίδα 67 - Wit, and learned'st Writer that ever oppos'd the Christian Religion with his Pen, to be call'd Porphyrius: For his true name in the Language of Syria, his native Country, was Malchus, or King; but the Greeks did paraphrase it Porphyrius, or Purple-robed; that being a Colour peculiar to Kings.