Days and Nights in the TropicsMorang & Company, limited, 1905 - 230 Seiten |
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... cross - crowned spires pierce the drifting clouds , and where fields , green with waving rye and clover , stretch away to the sea and complete a ravishing panorama . As we descended the Morro our route carried us by torrent - swept ...
... cross - crowned spires pierce the drifting clouds , and where fields , green with waving rye and clover , stretch away to the sea and complete a ravishing panorama . As we descended the Morro our route carried us by torrent - swept ...
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... cross , no planter could bind them to slavery , and to hold them in bondage after baptism was a sin against the Incarnation . On the other hand , the priests of the Catholic Church in the Spanish and French slave colonies insisted on ...
... cross , no planter could bind them to slavery , and to hold them in bondage after baptism was a sin against the Incarnation . On the other hand , the priests of the Catholic Church in the Spanish and French slave colonies insisted on ...
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... cross . At about the same hour a crowd of mulattoes , quadroons and negroes , led by a French free - thinker — an imported agitator - improvised a socialistic demonstration . The weird nature of their proceedings added additional horror ...
... cross . At about the same hour a crowd of mulattoes , quadroons and negroes , led by a French free - thinker — an imported agitator - improvised a socialistic demonstration . The weird nature of their proceedings added additional horror ...
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... cross , the symbolic sign of promise . Here , where now stands the great cathedral , they built their first temple , the colossal pantheon - Teocalli , they called it — where thousands of prisoners were sacrificed to the war god ...
... cross , the symbolic sign of promise . Here , where now stands the great cathedral , they built their first temple , the colossal pantheon - Teocalli , they called it — where thousands of prisoners were sacrificed to the war god ...
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... cross and has five naves . In the centre are two rows of eight pillars , which support the vaulted roof , above which rises a splen- did octagonal dome . There are fourteen chapels , or side ' altars , separated from the body of the ...
... cross and has five naves . In the centre are two rows of eight pillars , which support the vaulted roof , above which rises a splen- did octagonal dome . There are fourteen chapels , or side ' altars , separated from the body of the ...
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