A Winter Pilgrimage: Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1902 - 355 pages |
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... author six weeks in gaol and the opportunity of posing as a martyr to the zeal of Puritans . As it is they are classics ; therefore , like the masterpieces of Queen Margaret of Navarre and of Rabelais , they may circulate unafraid ...
... author six weeks in gaol and the opportunity of posing as a martyr to the zeal of Puritans . As it is they are classics ; therefore , like the masterpieces of Queen Margaret of Navarre and of Rabelais , they may circulate unafraid ...
Page 48
... author is 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 ...
... author is 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 ...
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... author has compiled the work known as Excerpta Cypria , which consists of transla- tions from their pages , a book invaluable to students , but now unhappily out of print . I considered myself for- tunate in being able to purchase a set ...
... author has compiled the work known as Excerpta Cypria , which consists of transla- tions from their pages , a book invaluable to students , but now unhappily out of print . I considered myself for- tunate in being able to purchase a set ...
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... author tells us that the martyr's skin was in the end purchased at a great price by his brother and sons , and , five - and - twenty years after the murder , buried in a marble urn in the church of SS . Giovanni e Paolo at Venice . Here ...
... author tells us that the martyr's skin was in the end purchased at a great price by his brother and sons , and , five - and - twenty years after the murder , buried in a marble urn in the church of SS . Giovanni e Paolo at Venice . Here ...
Page 176
... authors - the old Lusignan abbey which stands in the village of Lapais , to my mind the most beautiful spot in all Cyprus . I am not , how- ever , certain that it was an abbey . Drummond ( 1745 ) questions this , saying that he supposes ...
... authors - the old Lusignan abbey which stands in the village of Lapais , to my mind the most beautiful spot in all Cyprus . I am not , how- ever , certain that it was an abbey . Drummond ( 1745 ) questions this , saying that he supposes ...
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