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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... seems to have power in Syria ; that famous name of the hydra - headed , the indispens- able , the world - wide Cook . " " Cook , Cook , Cook ! " we croaked . " Oh ! yes , " answered the exasperated Turk in a tone not unlike that of a ...
... seems to have power in Syria ; that famous name of the hydra - headed , the indispens- able , the world - wide Cook . " " Cook , Cook , Cook ! " we croaked . " Oh ! yes , " answered the exasperated Turk in a tone not unlike that of a ...
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... seems to me to have a very wide application , far wider , indeed , than is neces- sary to the instance of these humble pages . It is the fashion nowadays to say that everything is hackneyed ; that the East itself , for instance , is ...
... seems to me to have a very wide application , far wider , indeed , than is neces- sary to the instance of these humble pages . It is the fashion nowadays to say that everything is hackneyed ; that the East itself , for instance , is ...
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... seems to press upon the student with an actual sense of weight . The numberless churches , some of them still ... seem to bring the dead time and those who shaped it as it was , so near to us that in its shadow the present is made mean ...
... seems to press upon the student with an actual sense of weight . The numberless churches , some of them still ... seem to bring the dead time and those who shaped it as it was , so near to us that in its shadow the present is made mean ...
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... seems to occur to makers to copy those which were fashioned in times when even the manufacturer of useful brass - work was not ashamed to be an artist . 1 Unhappily it is not in the case of church - fittings only that such a state of ...
... seems to occur to makers to copy those which were fashioned in times when even the manufacturer of useful brass - work was not ashamed to be an artist . 1 Unhappily it is not in the case of church - fittings only that such a state of ...
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... seems to be the aspect preferred , the shale soil , mixed with what looked to me like light loam covered with a good ... seem very difficult to obtain of good and true stock , owing apparently to the existence of Government regulations ...
... seems to be the aspect preferred , the shale soil , mixed with what looked to me like light loam covered with a good ... seem very difficult to obtain of good and true stock , owing apparently to the existence of Government regulations ...
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