A Journey Through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, Vol. 2 of 2 PDF Download

Author: John C. Hobhouse
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266746065
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Excerpt from A Journey Through Albania, and Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, Vol. 2 of 2: During the Years 1809 and 1810 This, to be sure, independent of the ridiculous vanity of the wri ter, is not quite in the style of the ancients, and shows, besides, that mo in his time the neglect of the long vowels, and the observance of the accents only in versification, had begun to obtain; but it is very difl'erent from the following verses, extracted from an historical poem, the Exploits of Michael the Waiwode, much like the Chiliads, printed at Venice in 1806, which i bought at loannina. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.