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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... Greek period , the very early Egyp- tian period , the period under discussion and that of the Renaissance , be accounted for as in the instance of the uprising of great writers such as Homer , Shakespeare , and others , in the ...
... Greek period , the very early Egyp- tian period , the period under discussion and that of the Renaissance , be accounted for as in the instance of the uprising of great writers such as Homer , Shakespeare , and others , in the ...
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... Greek Archipelago , to some of which we passed quite close . Here it was that we found most reason to mourn the lack of sunlight , which in this dripping weather caused even those green Ionian slopes to look cold and grey . Amongst ...
... Greek Archipelago , to some of which we passed quite close . Here it was that we found most reason to mourn the lack of sunlight , which in this dripping weather caused even those green Ionian slopes to look cold and grey . Amongst ...
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... Greek poetess Sappho leapt into the sea . Studying the spot I came to the conclusion that her nerve must have been almost as remarkable as her genius . Women very rarely commit suicide by jumping off a great height , especially into ...
... Greek poetess Sappho leapt into the sea . Studying the spot I came to the conclusion that her nerve must have been almost as remarkable as her genius . Women very rarely commit suicide by jumping off a great height , especially into ...
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... Greeks , and by the Latins Monte Croce , at any rate in the time of Pocock . Felix Fabri , the German monk who made two pil- grimages to Palestine in or about the year 1480 , tells how he visited this monastery and saw its relics . It ...
... Greeks , and by the Latins Monte Croce , at any rate in the time of Pocock . Felix Fabri , the German monk who made two pil- grimages to Palestine in or about the year 1480 , tells how he visited this monastery and saw its relics . It ...
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... Greeks of the Mycenian period . Their tombs also celebrate a glory that is departed , as the British Museum can bear witness . Next to the Greek the Persian ; then the satraps of Alexander the Great ; then the Ptolemies ; then galleys ...
... Greeks of the Mycenian period . Their tombs also celebrate a glory that is departed , as the British Museum can bear witness . Next to the Greek the Persian ; then the satraps of Alexander the Great ; then the Ptolemies ; then galleys ...
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