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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... seen another person ( a Croatian ) do the same before ; and though I do not suppose that the habit is common , or that it is to be considered one of the customs of this part of Europe , it is too curious to be omitted . A young Austrian ...
... seen another person ( a Croatian ) do the same before ; and though I do not suppose that the habit is common , or that it is to be considered one of the customs of this part of Europe , it is too curious to be omitted . A young Austrian ...
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... seen in summer , when the water is low ; showing how much the bed of the Norino has risen , since the time of the Romans . The same is the case with the Narenta , and other streams of Dalmatia ; and the rise of the level of the Kerka ...
... seen in summer , when the water is low ; showing how much the bed of the Norino has risen , since the time of the Romans . The same is the case with the Narenta , and other streams of Dalmatia ; and the rise of the level of the Kerka ...
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... seen below the surface ; show- ing , like those at Vido , the increased level of the water , since the time of the Romans . Next morning came , and still no answer from Gabella . I therefore left Metcovich , by the south- ern bank of ...
... seen below the surface ; show- ing , like those at Vido , the increased level of the water , since the time of the Romans . Next morning came , and still no answer from Gabella . I therefore left Metcovich , by the south- ern bank of ...
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... seen . Taking care to detain the horses , and ensure a * See the road from Imoschi , Chap . VIII . , woodcut , fig . 1 . " The father of wide trowsers , " as the Turks are called in the East . t retreat if necessary , I sent in every ...
... seen . Taking care to detain the horses , and ensure a * See the road from Imoschi , Chap . VIII . , woodcut , fig . 1 . " The father of wide trowsers , " as the Turks are called in the East . t retreat if necessary , I sent in every ...
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... seen a Turk before , I should have sup- posed that nothing could have quenched his ire , short of the death of the offender , or his own fall overboard into the water ; but his tongue proving a rapid conductor of rage , he was soon ...
... seen a Turk before , I should have sup- posed that nothing could have quenched his ire , short of the death of the offender , or his own fall overboard into the water ; but his tongue proving a rapid conductor of rage , he was soon ...
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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...