A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900Longmans, Green, and Company, 1904 - 376 pages |
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... history , and personal appearance might be verified by a drowsy Turk seated in a box upon the quay . Not until he was satisfied on all these points , indeed , would he allow them the privilege of risking death by drowning in an attempt ...
... history , and personal appearance might be verified by a drowsy Turk seated in a box upon the quay . Not until he was satisfied on all these points , indeed , would he allow them the privilege of risking death by drowning in an attempt ...
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... history of a bad crossing may well be spared . The boat did get out and it was accomplished -at a price that is all . If I were asked to devise a place of punishment for sinners of what I may chance to consider the direst degree , a ...
... history of a bad crossing may well be spared . The boat did get out and it was accomplished -at a price that is all . If I were asked to devise a place of punishment for sinners of what I may chance to consider the direst degree , a ...
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... history seems to press upon the student with an actual sense of weight . The numberless churches , some of them still unfinished ; the cold , stately palaces ; the public buildings and piazzas ; the statues , monuments , and pictures ...
... history seems to press upon the student with an actual sense of weight . The numberless churches , some of them still unfinished ; the cold , stately palaces ; the public buildings and piazzas ; the statues , monuments , and pictures ...
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... history can be traced since the year nine hundred and odd , and the family from whom the present owners bought it , held the property for over five centuries . In the garden , also , is the very well used by Boccaccio as the gathering ...
... history can be traced since the year nine hundred and odd , and the family from whom the present owners bought it , held the property for over five centuries . In the garden , also , is the very well used by Boccaccio as the gathering ...
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... historical and tells us " it is mentioned by Pliny : a M. Erinnius , duumvir , a Pom- pean who was thundered at Pompeii . " One wonders whether by this the author means that the duumvir was applauded at a theatre , or that he came in ...
... historical and tells us " it is mentioned by Pliny : a M. Erinnius , duumvir , a Pom- pean who was thundered at Pompeii . " One wonders whether by this the author means that the duumvir was applauded at a theatre , or that he came in ...
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