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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... believe that this old world is so exhausted after all . I think that there is still plenty to be seen and more to be learned even at that Ramsgate of which I spoke just now . Therefore I will try to describe a few of the things I saw ...
... believe that this old world is so exhausted after all . I think that there is still plenty to be seen and more to be learned even at that Ramsgate of which I spoke just now . Therefore I will try to describe a few of the things I saw ...
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... believe , one of the master's earlier works , but looking at it I wondered whether he ever fashioned any- thing more beautiful . The Virgin is of a somewhat modern type of face , with rippling hair parted in the middle ; indeed I can ...
... believe , one of the master's earlier works , but looking at it I wondered whether he ever fashioned any- thing more beautiful . The Virgin is of a somewhat modern type of face , with rippling hair parted in the middle ; indeed I can ...
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... believe , not allowed to recruit their numbers ; a vast pile of rambling buildings fortified for defence , it stands supreme upon a cypress - covered hill . Its interior with the halls , chapels , crypts , and columned galleries need ...
... believe , not allowed to recruit their numbers ; a vast pile of rambling buildings fortified for defence , it stands supreme upon a cypress - covered hill . Its interior with the halls , chapels , crypts , and columned galleries need ...
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... believe to be erroneous , that it improves the timber . At any rate it does not improve its beauty . The farmstead itself is very ancient , some parts of it dating back to the fourteenth century . Indeed everything here is ancient . It ...
... believe to be erroneous , that it improves the timber . At any rate it does not improve its beauty . The farmstead itself is very ancient , some parts of it dating back to the fourteenth century . Indeed everything here is ancient . It ...
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... believe that the Powers of Heaven would alter the law of nature and keep the fire from peeling the skin off the flesh and burning the hair and the garments of Fra Domenico ? He wavered , he hung between two opinions . Then faith ...
... believe that the Powers of Heaven would alter the law of nature and keep the fire from peeling the skin off the flesh and burning the hair and the garments of Fra Domenico ? He wavered , he hung between two opinions . Then faith ...
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