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 xvii
... whilst our libraries endure the Iliad will continue to find new translators , and Marco Polo - though one hopes not so plentifully - new editors . The justification of the book's existence must however be looked for , and it is hoped ...
... whilst our libraries endure the Iliad will continue to find new translators , and Marco Polo - though one hopes not so plentifully - new editors . The justification of the book's existence must however be looked for , and it is hoped ...
Pàgina 1
... whilst our confidence in the man's veracity is such that we feel certain every puzzle has a solution . personal And such difficulties have not attached merely to the identification of places , the interpretation of outlandish terms , or ...
... whilst our confidence in the man's veracity is such that we feel certain every puzzle has a solution . personal And such difficulties have not attached merely to the identification of places , the interpretation of outlandish terms , or ...
Pàgina 10
... whilst his hordes of horsemen , force of character , and close neighbourhood brought the Khans of Chaghatai under his influence , and they generally acted in concert with him . as applied to the Great Kaan , and does not , I think , use ...
... whilst his hordes of horsemen , force of character , and close neighbourhood brought the Khans of Chaghatai under his influence , and they generally acted in concert with him . as applied to the Great Kaan , and does not , I think , use ...
Pàgina 13
... whilst another deduces it from PAOLO the first Doge † ( Paulus Lucas Anafestus of Heraclea , A.D. 696 ) . More trustworthy traditions , recorded among the Family Histories of Venice , but still no more it is believed than traditions ...
... whilst another deduces it from PAOLO the first Doge † ( Paulus Lucas Anafestus of Heraclea , A.D. 696 ) . More trustworthy traditions , recorded among the Family Histories of Venice , but still no more it is believed than traditions ...
Pàgina 36
... whilst there were shot - ports + for smaller cross - bows along the gunnels in the intervals between the benches . Some of the larger galleys had openings to admit horses at the stern , which were closed and caulked for the voyage ...
... whilst there were shot - ports + for smaller cross - bows along the gunnels in the intervals between the benches . Some of the larger galleys had openings to admit horses at the stern , which were closed and caulked for the voyage ...
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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and ... Marco Polo Visualització completa - 1875 |
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian,: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volum 1 Marco Polo Visualització completa - 1875 |
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian: Concerning the Kingdoms ..., Volum 1 Marco Polo Visualització completa - 1875 |
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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.