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Letters of a German Countess; Written During Her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Nubia, &C. in 1843-4 [Tr. from Orientalische Briefe].


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...sultan Mohamed II. on horseback approach its high altar, before which he repeated in voice of thunder his profession of faith, "There is no God but God, and Mohamed is his prophet." And with that it was transformed into the first temple of this strange faith. Profanation saved it from destruction; apostacy protracted its existence. We were allowed to go through it from top to bottom. Over the aisles run wide galleries, formed by the most costly pillars, from which you may conveniently overlook the whole nave, and perceive many particularities. Thus you see the ancient mosaic work, with which the vaulting was coated, peeping in many places through the whitewash with which it is now encrusted, probably because it represented sacred subjects, which are abhorred by the Mohamedans. You see also many erased crosses on the marble parapet, and a few that have been forgotten and left. But, above all, you have an unobstructed view of the whole interior, which presents a regular quadrangle, in the centre of a large cupola, and overarched by four half cupolas round about it. The walls are lined with marble, which, from length of time, has acquired a dark softened colouring, that must have been an admirable foil to the ancient mosaic. Now, the whitewash forms a harsh and mean contrast. I have heard Aya Sofia compared with St. Mark's church at Venice, but all the resemblance which I can discover is this: that on both rest the splendour and the shade of a thousand years; that both remind you of the grandeur and the fall of mighty empires, of the overthrow of what is most stable; and that in both the soul is fain to lift itself up to the ancient, the eternal God, whom men seek to honour by church and mosque. But St. Mark's is infinitely more beautiful--wholly...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151212061
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151212067
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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