The General Gazetteer: Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary : Containing a Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities ... in the Known World, with Government, Customs, Manners, and Religion of the InhabitantsD. Buchanan, 1801 - 306 pages |
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Page 22 - The building has four rooms, one over the other, and at the top a gallery and lantern. The stone floors are flat above, but concave beneath, and are kept from pressing against the sides of the building by a chain let into the walls.
Page 22 - ... awaits them on account of what they are now doing, and excite their ferocity by the most provoking reproaches and threats. To display undaunted fortitude in such dreadful situations, is the noblest triumph of a warrior. To avoid the trial by a voluntary death, or to shrink under it, is deemed infamous and cowardly. If any one...
Page 23 - FRIENDSHIP, that among us is fo fubjeft to change on the flighteft motives, is lafting among the Morlacchi. They have even made it a kind of religious point, and tie the facred bond at the foot of the altar. The Sclavonian ritual contains a particular benediction for the folemn union of two male or two female friends in the prefence of the congregation.
Page 52 - ... fume, or haze, covered the fall all round, and hung over the course of the stream both above and below, marking its track, though the water was not seen. The...
Page 20 - ... they commit when inebriated, are entirely laid to the liquor; and no one will revenge any injury ( murder excepted ) received from one who is no more...
Page 52 - The river had been considerably increased by rains, and fell in one sheet of water, without any interval, above half an English mile in breadth, with a force and noise that was truly terrible, and which stunned and made me, for a time, perfectly dizzy. A thick fume, or haze, covered the fall all round, and hung over the course of the stream both above and below, marking its track, though the water was not seen.
Page 52 - ... part of it to run back with great fury upon the rock, as well as forward in the line of its course, raising a wave, or violent ebullition, by chafing against each other.
Page 3 - The dress of the better sort is a vest without sleeves, and they have no coverings for their heads, legs and feet. The common people wrap a piece of linen cloth about them, and the children go quite naked. They are a suipid,-debauched people, professing to be Mahometans.