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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... Lord Beaconsfield discovered , are very good in salad . To drop the poetical - and the ultra - practical , which is worse and take a safer middle way , I cannot for my part believe that this old world is so exhausted after all . I think ...
... Lord Beaconsfield discovered , are very good in salad . To drop the poetical - and the ultra - practical , which is worse and take a safer middle way , I cannot for my part believe that this old world is so exhausted after all . I think ...
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... Lord ? tion is difficult if not impossible to answer . names leap to my mind , all of them as it chances con- nected with religion : Martin Luther , William the Silent , Savonarola . If these stars do not shine most bright among that ...
... Lord ? tion is difficult if not impossible to answer . names leap to my mind , all of them as it chances con- nected with religion : Martin Luther , William the Silent , Savonarola . If these stars do not shine most bright among that ...
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... Lord ! " A tile of one of these loculi was loose . I moved it surreptitiously , and thrusting my taper to the hollow , looked in . There was the Christian as he had been entombed , or rather his bones , sunk in a soft grey dust , the ...
... Lord ! " A tile of one of these loculi was loose . I moved it surreptitiously , and thrusting my taper to the hollow , looked in . There was the Christian as he had been entombed , or rather his bones , sunk in a soft grey dust , the ...
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... Lord 79 . Yet what artists were these Pompeians . All the talent of the world in our generation could not produce such statues and bronzes as have been found beneath the lava of Herculaneum and the ashes of Pompeii . There- fore it ...
... Lord 79 . Yet what artists were these Pompeians . All the talent of the world in our generation could not produce such statues and bronzes as have been found beneath the lava of Herculaneum and the ashes of Pompeii . There- fore it ...
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... Lord Lytton . Who is there of our trade that would not like to write a novel about Pompeii ? But Lytton bars the way . Not that it would be difficult to find another and quite different plot . It is his title which presages failure to ...
... Lord Lytton . Who is there of our trade that would not like to write a novel about Pompeii ? But Lytton bars the way . Not that it would be difficult to find another and quite different plot . It is his title which presages failure to ...
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