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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... - MON'S QUARRIES • 306 XXII . THE CHURCH OF THE SEPULCHRE XXI . GORDON'S TOMB AND GOLGOTHA XXIII . THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THE WAILING OF 324 338 • THE JEWS vii 354 • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CATHEDRAL OF ST . SOPHIA , FAMAGUSTA.
... - MON'S QUARRIES • 306 XXII . THE CHURCH OF THE SEPULCHRE XXI . GORDON'S TOMB AND GOLGOTHA XXIII . THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THE WAILING OF 324 338 • THE JEWS vii 354 • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS CATHEDRAL OF ST . SOPHIA , FAMAGUSTA.
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... tombs behind them and in the tombs works of art , some of them excellent enough . Thus before me as I write stands a bronze bull made by Phoenician hands from Cyprian copper , a well - modelled animal full of spirit , with a tail that ...
... tombs behind them and in the tombs works of art , some of them excellent enough . Thus before me as I write stands a bronze bull made by Phoenician hands from Cyprian copper , a well - modelled animal full of spirit , with a tail that ...
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... tombs , rifled long ago . Then we came to the site of the town stretching down to the sea - beach , where stand the rem- nants of a castle which we saw from the steamer . Now it is nothing but a hillside literally sown with stones that ...
... tombs , rifled long ago . Then we came to the site of the town stretching down to the sea - beach , where stand the rem- nants of a castle which we saw from the steamer . Now it is nothing but a hillside literally sown with stones that ...
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... tombs which lie behind and beyond , taking with us a supply of candles and several peasants as guides . These sepulchres ... tomb was nothing but a pool of liquid mud through which , to win an entrance , the explorer must crawl upon his ...
... tombs which lie behind and beyond , taking with us a supply of candles and several peasants as guides . These sepulchres ... tomb was nothing but a pool of liquid mud through which , to win an entrance , the explorer must crawl upon his ...
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... tomb : this doorway beneath which we passed was also square and surmounted by four separate mouldings . Once through ... tombs , each of them large enough to contain several bodies . They are empty now , but their beautiful work- manship ...
... tomb : this doorway beneath which we passed was also square and surmounted by four separate mouldings . Once through ... tombs , each of them large enough to contain several bodies . They are empty now , but their beautiful work- manship ...
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