A steam voyage down the Danube, vol. 2 of 2

Dictation--Signal of war--Civilization--Barbarism--Russian Court--Turkish civilization--Duties of England--Extent of her empire--Africa--Asia--India--Australia--English influenc...

Having letters for Lord Ponsonby, I proceeded (18th Oct.) the day after my arrival, to Therapia, where the British embassy has been most inconveniently established, since the ma...

Left to struggle single-handed against an enemy for whom every fresh battle became a triumph, the Sultan was reduced to the necessity of applying to Russia for that succour whic...

Dictation--Signal of war--Civilization--Barbarism--Russian court-- Turkish Civilization--Duties of England--Extent of her empire-- Africa--Asia--India--Australia--English influe...

The reader will, I trust, do me the justice to believe that I have not embarked lightly in this discussion. While I remained in Constantinople, and since my return home, I have...

While I was at Constantinople, two circumstances occurred of a remarkable character--at least the Christians as well as the Turks deemed them so. The Turkish fleet had gone down...

There were several Englishmen, French, and Americans, at Madame Maracini’s table where I joined them at dinner. I soon after retired to bed, and slept until five o’clock the nex...

We lingered about Hydra all the morning (2d November), and it being Sunday the men all assembled on deck in their best clothes at ten o’clock, when the officers read to them, in...

Generally speaking, the political deliberations of the senate were conducted upon principles of the purest liberty. Perfect freedom of opinion was the right of every senator--a...

Travelling in Greece I soon found to be a very different affair from travelling in Turkey. A small jog-trot, or rather a walk at a snail’s pace, is the usual rate of journeying...

While I was rambling among the mountains, the expected boat came in, and announced its departure again for Athens in the evening. The patron, however, as soon as he heard of my...

There is at Vostizza a remarkably large plane tree, which has the reputation, I cannot say how justly, of being at least two thousand years old. It is certainly very old, and th...

The steam-boat having failed to make her appearance, I engaged my passage to Corfu on-board the Austrian packet _Vigilante_ (Captain Melchiori), a very handsome frigate, pierced...

In one respect the Doctor was right. He assured us that the water-spout predicted stormy weather; for in a few hours after, the gale did come on, sure enough, and continued to b...

It is agreed, I believe, on all hands, that Gregory XVI. is as much distinguished for his cheerful temper, his amiable disposition, his simplicity in his mode of living, as for...

I regretted being obliged to leave Rome on the feast of the Epiphany (6th of January), as on that day masses were celebrated in the church of the Propaganda, by clergymen from e...