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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... town we must remain for four- and - twenty hours . Once I climbed the St. Gothard , now over thirty years ago , when a brother and I walked from Fluellen to the top of the pass with the purpose of bidding fare- well to another brother ...
... town we must remain for four- and - twenty hours . Once I climbed the St. Gothard , now over thirty years ago , when a brother and I walked from Fluellen to the top of the pass with the purpose of bidding fare- well to another brother ...
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... town with a toy wood - built church . Next an enor- mous gulf , and in its depths a torrent raging . always a sense of mountains , invisible indeed but over- hanging , impending , vast . And Now a little hut is seen and by it a blue ...
... town with a toy wood - built church . Next an enor- mous gulf , and in its depths a torrent raging . always a sense of mountains , invisible indeed but over- hanging , impending , vast . And Now a little hut is seen and by it a blue ...
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... town . In the garden of the old and rambling house where I stayed in Florence lived some of these sparrows , and two cherished pairs of black- birds , which I used to contemplate from my window . Also there were sundry stray cats , and ...
... town . In the garden of the old and rambling house where I stayed in Florence lived some of these sparrows , and two cherished pairs of black- birds , which I used to contemplate from my window . Also there were sundry stray cats , and ...
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... town , is 75 centimes ; yet we saw ten francs extracted from a wretched American who still was followed with complaints and voluble abuse . One morning I sat at breakfast be- hind a massive window of plate glass which did not open . Nor ...
... town , is 75 centimes ; yet we saw ten francs extracted from a wretched American who still was followed with complaints and voluble abuse . One morning I sat at breakfast be- hind a massive window of plate glass which did not open . Nor ...
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... town , its eyes may see the lost thousands in their strange attire crowding down the cramped ways , till at length something of the meaning and the pathos of it all will come home . Yet why should this place move us so much ? There are ...
... town , its eyes may see the lost thousands in their strange attire crowding down the cramped ways , till at length something of the meaning and the pathos of it all will come home . Yet why should this place move us so much ? There are ...
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