The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, Volum 1John Murray, 1875 - 606 pàgines |
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Pàgina viii
... authority . Nay , the last two years have thrown a promise of light even on what seemed the wildest of Marco's stories , and the bones of a veritable Ruc from New Zealand lie on the table of Professor Owen's Cabinet ! M. VIVIEN de St ...
... authority . Nay , the last two years have thrown a promise of light even on what seemed the wildest of Marco's stories , and the bones of a veritable Ruc from New Zealand lie on the table of Professor Owen's Cabinet ! M. VIVIEN de St ...
Pàgina 7
... authorities as to the details of the Polo blazon . According to a MS . concerning the genealogies of Venetian families written by Marco Barbaro in 1566 , and of which there is a copy in the Museo Civico , the field is gules , the bend ...
... authorities as to the details of the Polo blazon . According to a MS . concerning the genealogies of Venetian families written by Marco Barbaro in 1566 , and of which there is a copy in the Museo Civico , the field is gules , the bend ...
Pàgina 10
... authority to the House of Tuli , and was through the long life of Kublai a thorn in his side , perpetually keeping his north - western frontier in alarm . His immediate authority was exercised over some part of what we ehould now call ...
... authority to the House of Tuli , and was through the long life of Kublai a thorn in his side , perpetually keeping his north - western frontier in alarm . His immediate authority was exercised over some part of what we ehould now call ...
Pàgina 13
... authority does not appear ( MS . copy in Museo Civico at Venice ) . § Capellari , u . s . , and Barbaro . In the same century we find ( 1125 , 1195 ) indi- cations of Polos at Torcello , and of others ( 1160 ) at Equileo , and ( 1179 ...
... authority does not appear ( MS . copy in Museo Civico at Venice ) . § Capellari , u . s . , and Barbaro . In the same century we find ( 1125 , 1195 ) indi- cations of Polos at Torcello , and of others ( 1160 ) at Equileo , and ( 1179 ...
Pàgina 22
... authority ( not Wassáf I find ) , which perhaps gives the precise date of the Lady's arrival in Persia ( see infra , p . 38 ) . From his narrative , however ( Gesch . der Ilchane , ii . 20 ) , March 1294 is perhaps too late a date . But ...
... authority ( not Wassáf I find ) , which perhaps gives the precise date of the Lady's arrival in Persia ( see infra , p . 38 ) . From his narrative , however ( Gesch . der Ilchane , ii . 20 ) , March 1294 is perhaps too late a date . But ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 254 - In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, io Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
Pàgina 153 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Pàgina 194 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Pàgina 198 - Go and wait upon your Lord in the other world ! " For they do in sooth believe that all such as they slay in this manner do go to serve their Lord in the other world. They do the same too with horses ; for when the Emperor dies, they kill all his best horses, in order that he may have the use of them in the other world, as they believe.
Pàgina 173 - And you must know that in the same mountain there is a vein of the substance from which Salamander is made. For the real truth is that the Salamander is no beast, as they allege in our part of the world, but is a substance found in the earth ; and I will tell you about it.
Pàgina 364 - All these pieces of paper are [issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver ; and on every piece a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to put their seals. And when all is prepared duly, the chief officer deputed by the...
Pàgina xli - ... cut up and divided among the servants. Then after partaking of some of the dishes they went out again and came back in robes of crimson velvet, and when they had again taken their seats, the second suits were divided as before. When dinner was over they did the like with the robes of velvet, after they had put on dresses of the ordinary fashion worn by the rest of the company.
Pàgina 172 - But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Pàgina 138 - In leaving Badashan you ride twelve days between east and north-east, ascending a river that runs through land belonging to a brother of the Prince of Badashan, and containing a good many towns and villages and scattered habitations. The people are Mahommetans, and valiant in war. At the end of those twelve days you come to a province of no great size, extending indeed no more than three days' journey in any direction, and this is called VOKHAN.