The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, Volum 1John Murray, 1875 |
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Pàgina xxvii
... heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu . I. - HERE THE BOOK BEGINS ; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA .. .. NOTES . - I . Little Armenia . 2. Meaning of Chasteaux . 3 ...
... heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu . I. - HERE THE BOOK BEGINS ; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA .. .. NOTES . - I . Little Armenia . 2. Meaning of Chasteaux . 3 ...
Pàgina 4
... heard when I was a youngster from the illustrious Messer GASPARO MALPIERO , a gentleman of very great age , and a Senator of eminent virtue and integrity , whose house was on the Canal of Santa Marina , exactly at the corner over the ...
... heard when I was a youngster from the illustrious Messer GASPARO MALPIERO , a gentleman of very great age , and a Senator of eminent virtue and integrity , whose house was on the Canal of Santa Marina , exactly at the corner over the ...
Pàgina 9
... heard of some years after a Greek dynasty was again in possession of Constantinople . * The various 10. In Asia and Eastern Europe scarcely a dog might bark without Mongol leave , from the borders of Poland and the Gulf of Scanderoon to ...
... heard of some years after a Greek dynasty was again in possession of Constantinople . * The various 10. In Asia and Eastern Europe scarcely a dog might bark without Mongol leave , from the borders of Poland and the Gulf of Scanderoon to ...
Pàgina 15
... heard from * There is no real ground for doubt as to this . All the extant MSS . agree in making Marco fifteen years old when his father returned to Venice in 1269 . them , that Europe could afford such aid of a PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ...
... heard from * There is no real ground for doubt as to this . All the extant MSS . agree in making Marco fifteen years old when his father returned to Venice in 1269 . them , that Europe could afford such aid of a PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE ...
Pàgina 20
... heard his Majesty's frank expressions of disgust at the stupidity of his commissioners when they could speak of nothing but the official business on which they had been sent . Profiting by these observations , he took care to store his ...
... heard his Majesty's frank expressions of disgust at the stupidity of his commissioners when they could speak of nothing but the official business on which they had been sent . Profiting by these observations , he took care to store his ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 268 - 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 168 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Pàgina 210 - 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 324 - ... as it is.] As regards the size of this (new) city you must know that it has a compass of 24 miles, for each side of it hath a length of 6 miles, and it is four-square.
Pàgina 214 - 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 188 - 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 284 - ... They produced a chain of fifty cubits in length, and in my presence threw one end of it towards the sky, where it remained as if fastened to something in the air. A dog was then brought forward, and being placed at the lower end of the chain, immediately ran up, and reaching the other end, immediately disappeared in the air.
Pàgina 324 - My brother shal be warisshed hastily; For I am siker that ther be sciences By whiche men make diverse apparences Swiche as thise subtile tregetoures pleye; For ofte at feestes have I wel herd seye That tregetours withinne an halle large Have maad come in a water and a barge, And in the halle rowen up and doun.
Pàgina 188 - 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.