The Old World in Its New Face: Impressions of Europe in 1867-1868, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1869 |
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... rock - hardened slime of the volcano , and nothing can be more curious than the forms it has taken . Sometimes it lies in great heaps of gnarled and knotty stumps , as if the roots of its old forests had all been turned into stone , and ...
... rock - hardened slime of the volcano , and nothing can be more curious than the forms it has taken . Sometimes it lies in great heaps of gnarled and knotty stumps , as if the roots of its old forests had all been turned into stone , and ...
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... than these Italian recruits . Inconvenience or discomfort seemed not even to have occurred to any of them . If they had been oysters on Expression . 77 a rock they could not have seemed 76 The Old World in its New Face .
... than these Italian recruits . Inconvenience or discomfort seemed not even to have occurred to any of them . If they had been oysters on Expression . 77 a rock they could not have seemed 76 The Old World in its New Face .
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Impressions of Europe in 1867-1868 Henry Whitney Bellows. Expression . 77 a rock they could not have seemed more used or more rec- onciled to their situation . All day long they were talking with a glibness and persistency that only ...
Impressions of Europe in 1867-1868 Henry Whitney Bellows. Expression . 77 a rock they could not have seemed more used or more rec- onciled to their situation . All day long they were talking with a glibness and persistency that only ...
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... rock in situ , excepting the fore - paws of the lioness , in which the woman ends . I do not know whether the learned place her before or after the Pyramid -a woman's age is always a delicate question - but if she saw the Pyramids built ...
... rock in situ , excepting the fore - paws of the lioness , in which the woman ends . I do not know whether the learned place her before or after the Pyramid -a woman's age is always a delicate question - but if she saw the Pyramids built ...
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... rock , of tombs often adorned with elaborate sculptures of columns , and with bas - reliefs and hieroglyphics . The way to them is up the sides of broken quarries and over great tracts of sand , and among scenes of the wildest ...
... rock , of tombs often adorned with elaborate sculptures of columns , and with bas - reliefs and hieroglyphics . The way to them is up the sides of broken quarries and over great tracts of sand , and among scenes of the wildest ...
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Seite 461 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Seite 301 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not, and yet I say unto you, that Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.
Seite 460 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes
Seite 318 - And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
Seite 188 - I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war: for God commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with...
Seite 235 - He could own his little home, and there sit under his own vine and fig-tree with none to molest or make him afraid.
Seite 22 - ... is committed, but never can sanction it beforehand," was the reply. Acting upon this guarded reply, they demolished the church, and rebuilt it upon the site which it afterwards occupied. But yearly the Doge came forth with his train to meet the parish priest, who, standing upon the desecrated spot, demanded of his Serenity that he would be pleased to rebuild the church upon its old foundations.
Seite 187 - He is very late," and those who have already come to the entertainment are seated in the room, listening to a band of music, composed of the harp, guitar, double-pipe, lyre, and tambourine, accompanied by female choristers. Behind the Christian ruins, close to No. 23, are the remains of a curious Greek inscription, being the copy of a letter from the celebrated "Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, to the orthodox " monks at Thebes. No. 31 presents some curious subjects, among which are offerings...
Seite 357 - Jtidah's mountains cold, Wherever Jordan's river flows, Or Sharon's plains unfold. Not Solomon in all his pride Was e'er so richly dressed As the green fields or mountain side, By these fair flowers caressed. They sparkle with the morning's dew, They kindle in the sun ; Their blushes have a lustre new When the bright day is done. When our dear Lord his wounded side Emptied on Zion's ground, The winds caught up the precious tide And scattered it around. From every drop a flower sprung up, And in strange...