 | Charles Wilkinson - 1806 - 484 pages
...harbour allows goods to be landed on the quays without the assistance of boats. And the sea of Marmora has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish, particularly sturgeon, mullet, eels, and pilchards, that are taken in their stated seasons, with~ out... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1810 - 462 pages
...prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests : and the Propontis has ever been renown, ed for an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish,...stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour23. But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open for trade, they alternately admitted... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...op. pression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible...seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open for trade, they alternately admitted the natural... | |
 | 1830 - 288 pages
...oppression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests ; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible...seasons, without skill and almost without labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open for 4 trade, they alternately admitted the natural... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 pages
...still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests ; and the Fropontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store...seasons, without skill, and almost without labour.* But when the passages of the straits were thrown open for trade, they alternately admitted the natural... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 pages
...exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests : and the Propontis rías ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the...seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. (23) But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open for trade, they alternately admitted the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 pages
...of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests : and the Prppontis has ever been renowned юг an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish,...stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour.(23) But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open for trade, they alternately admitted... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...oppression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests ; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the niost exquisite fish that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill and almost without labour.... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 pages
...Bosphorus that the richest captures were made. " The Propentis" (Sea of Marmora), Gibbon tells us, " has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store...seasons, without skill and almost without labour." Among these, young tunnies were the most celebrated. They were supposed to have their origin in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...oppression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests ; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible...exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, *° Strabo, 1. xiii. p. 595. The disposition of the ships, which were drawn up on dry land, and the... | |
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Turkish oppression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill,... 
