Observations Upon the Peloponnesus and Greek Islands, Made in 1829Crocker and Brewster, 1830 - 334 Seiten |
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... piastres and paras , a Turkish currency . The value of the piastre varies . In Greece , fifteen piastres were reckoned to the Spanish dollar in 1829 : in Smyrna , fourteen , or fourteen and a half . The para is the fortieth part of a ...
... piastres and paras , a Turkish currency . The value of the piastre varies . In Greece , fifteen piastres were reckoned to the Spanish dollar in 1829 : in Smyrna , fourteen , or fourteen and a half . The para is the fortieth part of a ...
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... piastres we were to pay them for each animal on arriving at Patras . We travelled one after another in a beaten track , though often we had not so much as that . Indeed the Pelo- ponnesus no where contains anything deserving to be ...
... piastres we were to pay them for each animal on arriving at Patras . We travelled one after another in a beaten track , though often we had not so much as that . Indeed the Pelo- ponnesus no where contains anything deserving to be ...
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... piastres for each horse to Bostitsa , one day's journey . From thence to Corinth occupies two days more . The narrow plain on the margin of the gulf is culti- vated as far as the Skinas , a rivulet an hour from Patras , deriving its ...
... piastres for each horse to Bostitsa , one day's journey . From thence to Corinth occupies two days more . The narrow plain on the margin of the gulf is culti- vated as far as the Skinas , a rivulet an hour from Patras , deriving its ...
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... piastres , 1,007 20 Income , Profit , ( or 53 piastres a year , ) Expenses in cultivating grain , Income , 1,537 20 530 00 1,020 00 2,550 00 Profit , ( or 153 piastres a year , ) - 1,530 00 90 SOUDENA . Leaving the glen just mentioned ...
... piastres , 1,007 20 Income , Profit , ( or 53 piastres a year , ) Expenses in cultivating grain , Income , 1,537 20 530 00 1,020 00 2,550 00 Profit , ( or 153 piastres a year , ) - 1,530 00 90 SOUDENA . Leaving the glen just mentioned ...
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... piastres , or more than 130,000 dollars . This is per- haps an exaggeration ; but their loss must have been very great , if the expenses are reckoned which they in- curred for the defence of the convent . The two stone batteries on the ...
... piastres , or more than 130,000 dollars . This is per- haps an exaggeration ; but their loss must have been very great , if the expenses are reckoned which they in- curred for the defence of the convent . The two stone batteries on the ...
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Seite 311 - What then? are we better than they! No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin...
Seite 46 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived : neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Seite ii - An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical, and other prints.
Seite ii - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 118 - And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers.
Seite 245 - Pioneer agencies like the London Missionary Society and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...
Seite 118 - Having had my attention directed last night to the above words, I asked my man if it was usual in Greece to give names to the sheep. He informed me that it was, and that the sheep obeyed the shepherd when he called them by their names. This morning I had an opportunity of verifying the truth of this remark. Passing by a flock...
Seite 118 - I then bade him call one of his sheep. He did so, and it instantly left its pasturage and its companions, and ran up to the hand of the shepherd, with signs of pleasure, and with a prompt obedience which I had never before observed in any other animal. It is also true of the sheep in this country, ' that a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him ; for they know not the voice of strangers.
Seite 272 - The virtues which had formerly been ascribed to the heathen temples, to their lustrations, to the statues of their gods and heroes, were now attributed to Christian churches, to water consecrated by certain forms of prayer, and to the images of holy men.
Seite 108 - Spirit proceeds from the Father only, and not from the Father and the Son...