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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... fact , as well as figuratively , a mine of wealth . Of Cyprus but few have written ; travellers rarely think it worth the while to visit there , so in this particular at the least I trust that I may not be blamed . There is , further ...
... fact , as well as figuratively , a mine of wealth . Of Cyprus but few have written ; travellers rarely think it worth the while to visit there , so in this particular at the least I trust that I may not be blamed . There is , further ...
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... fact we find it blowing a gale , for the spray drives right over the train on to the unhappy passengers as they splash towards the boat quivering and livid , some of them , with anticipatory qualms . But the history of a bad crossing ...
... fact we find it blowing a gale , for the spray drives right over the train on to the unhappy passengers as they splash towards the boat quivering and livid , some of them , with anticipatory qualms . But the history of a bad crossing ...
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... fact a great veil of which I do not know the use or symbolical significance , but from where we saw it first , suggesting the appearance of the white wings of some angel cherishing the altar of his God . Then upon that altar itself ...
... fact a great veil of which I do not know the use or symbolical significance , but from where we saw it first , suggesting the appearance of the white wings of some angel cherishing the altar of his God . Then upon that altar itself ...
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... fact it is the old story . These hills and plains have borne the yoke of man almost from the beginning , and yet how faint its scar ! The scratches which we make on Nature's face are very shallow and soon heal . That there is nothing ...
... fact it is the old story . These hills and plains have borne the yoke of man almost from the beginning , and yet how faint its scar ! The scratches which we make on Nature's face are very shallow and soon heal . That there is nothing ...
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... fact of visiting them obtains - or obtained by the decree of Pope Leo X. , who flourished at the beginning of the sixteenth century— “ an in- dulgence of ten years , " whatever that may mean . inner cell contains a copy of an ancient ...
... fact of visiting them obtains - or obtained by the decree of Pope Leo X. , who flourished at the beginning of the sixteenth century— “ an in- dulgence of ten years , " whatever that may mean . inner cell contains a copy of an ancient ...
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