Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt, and Barbary, During the Years 1806 and 1807A memoir of the author's life while he was researching and writing a religious history called Les Martyrs, ou le Triomphe de la Religion Chretienne. The introduction includes the history of Athens and Sparta and an inquiry into religious traditions related to Jerusalem--specifically, the authenticity of claims made by religious tourists, such as visiting the actual tomb of Christ. The text of the diary is full of literary references and adventure. Unlike other travel diaries, the narrative flow is more like a novel and the entries are not just lists of weather reports, food, pretty sights, and some funny anecdotes. Since the author had a research purpose during his time there, Travels in Greece has a protagonist with a purpose. |
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... Cross , which it was so much to its own interest to conceal . The faith made such rapid progress in Palestine , before the last insur- rection of the Jews , that Barcochehas , the ringleader on this occasion , persecuted the Christians ...
... Cross , which it was so much to its own interest to conceal . The faith made such rapid progress in Palestine , before the last insur- rection of the Jews , that Barcochehas , the ringleader on this occasion , persecuted the Christians ...
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... crosses , one of which is said to have been recognised by its miracles , as the cross on which the Redeemer suffered . Not only was a magnificent church erected at the Holy Sepulchre , but two others were built by Helena ; one over the ...
... crosses , one of which is said to have been recognised by its miracles , as the cross on which the Redeemer suffered . Not only was a magnificent church erected at the Holy Sepulchre , but two others were built by Helena ; one over the ...
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... cross . " St. Jerome declares , in the same letter , that pil- A. D. $ 85 . grims from India , Ethiopia , Britain , and Hibernia , ** He resorted to Jerusalem , and sung in their various lan- guages the praises of Christ , around his ...
... cross . " St. Jerome declares , in the same letter , that pil- A. D. $ 85 . grims from India , Ethiopia , Britain , and Hibernia , ** He resorted to Jerusalem , and sung in their various lan- guages the praises of Christ , around his ...
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... cross which the Persian monarch had taken away . Twenty - three years afterwards , Omar made himself master of the Holy city , which continued under the yoke of the Saracens till the time of Godfrey de Bouillon . In another part of this ...
... cross which the Persian monarch had taken away . Twenty - three years afterwards , Omar made himself master of the Holy city , which continued under the yoke of the Saracens till the time of Godfrey de Bouillon . In another part of this ...
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... cross - legged , on a kind of stalls or wooden tables , be- neath the shade of tattered canvas , extended from one house to another . They were smoking their pipes and drinking coffee , and , contrary to the idea which I had formed of ...
... cross - legged , on a kind of stalls or wooden tables , be- neath the shade of tattered canvas , extended from one house to another . They were smoking their pipes and drinking coffee , and , contrary to the idea which I had formed of ...
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Page 17 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 120 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of •waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 291 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Page 290 - And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Page 387 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Page 386 - Her gates are sunk into the ground ; he hath destroyed and broken her bars : her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
Page 386 - How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary...
Page 387 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Page 295 - Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 121 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the "sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.