 | Edward Daniel Clarke - Asia - 1813 - 512 pages
...The manners are so Turkie like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stuft with idoles that defile The seats that sacred ought to be, the customs are so quaint, As it' I would describe the whole, 1 fcare my pen would faint. In suvnme, I say, I never saw a prince... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Russia - 1834 - 344 pages
...side, — The manners are so Turkie like, the men so mil of guile, The women wanton, temples stufft with idols that defile, The seats that sacred ought to be, the customs are so quaint. As if I would describe the whole, 1 feare my pen would faint."* In the thinly peopled state of Russia,... | |
 | John Barrow - 1834 - 446 pages
...side; The manners are »o Turkie-like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stuff 'd with idols that defile The seats that sacred ought to be; the customs are so quaint, As if I could describe the whole, I fear my pen would faint." It did not appear to us that drunkenness... | |
 | John Barrow - Denmark - 1834 - 424 pages
...side; The manuers are so Turkie-like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stuff 'd with idols that defile The seats that sacred ought to be ; the customs are so quaint, As if I could describe the whole, I fear my pen would faint." It did not appear to us that drunkenness... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 358 pages
...Voyages — ' The manners are so Turkie-lilte, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stuft with idols that defile The seats that sacred ought to be, the customes are so quaint, As if I would describe the whole, I fear my pen would faint. In sumnie I say... | |
 | Sigmund Freiherr von Herberstein - Muscovy (Grand Duchy) - 1851 - 590 pages
...euery side : The maners are so Turkic like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stuft with idols that defile The seats that sacred ought to be, the customes are so quaint, As if I would describe the whole, I feare my penne would faint. In summe, I... | |
 | sir John Barrow (bart.) - 1883 - 454 pages
...side, — The manners are so Turkie-like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stufft with idols that defile The seats that sacred ought to be ; the customs are so quaint, As, if I would describe the whole, I feare my pen would faint."* In the thinly-peopled state of Russia,... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - Discoveries in geography - 1903 - 538 pages
...1568. 1568. The maners are so Turkie like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, Temples stuft with idols that defile The Seats that sacred ought to be, the customes are so quaint, As if I would describe the whole, I feare my pen would faint. In summe, I say... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Russia - 1908 - 446 pages
...side, — The manners are so Turkie like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stufft with idols that defile, The seats that sacred ought to be, the customs are so quaint, As if I would describe the whole,! feare my pen would faint.''* In the thinly peopled state of Russia,... | |
 | Alice Birkhead - 1915 - 220 pages
...side, — The manners are so Turkie-like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, temples stufft with idols that defile The seats that sacred ought to be ; the customs are so quaint, As, if I would describe the whole, I fear my pen would faint. GEORGE TURBERVILE (in Hakluyts " Collection... | |
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Turkie like, the men so full of guile, The women wanton, Temples stuft with idols that defile The Seats that sacred ought to be, the customes are so quaint, As if I would describe the whole, I feare my pen would faint. 
