Dalmatia and Montenegro: With a Journey to Mostar in Herzegovia, and Remarks on the Slavonic Nations; the History of Dalmatia and Ragusa; the Uscocs; &c. &c, Band 2John Murray, 1848 - 564 Seiten |
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... bodies are spared the insult of being left unburied ; and those of the Montenegrins are given to the Greeks of Mostar , who , being of the same persuasion , bury them in their own cemetery . The palace is a building of no beauty , quite ...
... bodies are spared the insult of being left unburied ; and those of the Montenegrins are given to the Greeks of Mostar , who , being of the same persuasion , bury them in their own cemetery . The palace is a building of no beauty , quite ...
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... body ( as matter ) to the soul ( as an emanation from the Deity ) ; but it is evident , from the con- fession of faith by the Paulicians , or Albigenses , in the twelfth century , that their tenets were very similar to those of the ...
... body ( as matter ) to the soul ( as an emanation from the Deity ) ; but it is evident , from the con- fession of faith by the Paulicians , or Albigenses , in the twelfth century , that their tenets were very similar to those of the ...
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... the importance of a river . It bears some resemblance to Vaucluse , but the water is in a larger body . On the bank , beneath * See Faber , p . 260 . the rocks , is a kiosk , shaded by walnut 114 [ CHAP . VII . DALMATIA AND MONTENEGRO .
... the importance of a river . It bears some resemblance to Vaucluse , but the water is in a larger body . On the bank , beneath * See Faber , p . 260 . the rocks , is a kiosk , shaded by walnut 114 [ CHAP . VII . DALMATIA AND MONTENEGRO .
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... body , extended his vengeance to their graves . From Boona to Mostar is about six miles . On the road are some Christian tombs , of late time . One has an ornamented cross , with the zigzag mould- ing , common in those of earlier date ...
... body , extended his vengeance to their graves . From Boona to Mostar is about six miles . On the road are some Christian tombs , of late time . One has an ornamented cross , with the zigzag mould- ing , common in those of earlier date ...
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... , the resort of wolves , and eagles , in winter ; and , indeed , on approaching it , I * This word , so like our own , means " grave . " started two eagles , which were feeding on the bodies CHAP . VIII . ] 141 CAPTURE OF THE CASTLE .
... , the resort of wolves , and eagles , in winter ; and , indeed , on approaching it , I * This word , so like our own , means " grave . " started two eagles , which were feeding on the bodies CHAP . VIII . ] 141 CAPTURE OF THE CASTLE .
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Seite 107 - ... favour this supposition ; but it is far more probable that, with the name indiscriminately bestowed as a term of opprobrium upon all who differed from the canons of the Romish Church, they have received the credit of supporting the doctrines of the Manichseans. This much, however, is certain, — that they denied the sovereignty of the Pope, the power of the priests, the efficacy of prayers for the dead, and the existence of purgatory;* while they rejected all images, relics, and the worship...
Seite 220 - Slavonians can form a nation independent of Russia ; or whether they ought to rest satisfied in being part of one great race, with the most powerful member of it as their chief. * The latter, indeed, is gaining ground amongst them ; and some Poles are disposed to attribute their sufferings to the arbitrary will of the Czar, without extending the blame to the Russians themselves. These begin to think that, if they cannot exist as Poles, the best thing to be done is to rest satisfied...
Seite 222 - ... to the Adriatic. They had formed their agricultural and commercial habits at the time of the irruption of the Huns, Avars, and other Asiatic tribes, by whom they were regarded as aborigines, or original possessors of the soil. Early in the sixth century, an army of them advanced against Constanti* Of the two alternatives mentioned by him, of Europe becoming either Cossack or Republican, the former seems, from recent events, to be by far the least probable. t Since writing the above, new events...
Seite 452 - Veligosti, &c. &c. It is almost superfluous to observe, that the inhabitants from whose language the names of localities were derived must have remained a considerable time on the spot, when the names continue in use after the people themselves have disappeared as a nation from the country where the places named by them are situated. It appears, therefore, that the present population of Morea has at least as much Slavonic as Hellenic blood in its veins. " The Moreote character bears...