The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1899 |
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Pagina 9
... believe they told us one of the ancient old masters painted it- and then we descended into the vast vault underneath . Here was a spectacle for sensitive nerves ! Evi- dently the old masters had been at work in this place . There were ...
... believe they told us one of the ancient old masters painted it- and then we descended into the vast vault underneath . Here was a spectacle for sensitive nerves ! Evi- dently the old masters had been at work in this place . There were ...
Pagina 26
... believe in and support one of the wretchedest of all the religious impostures one can find in Italy - the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius . Twice a year the priests assemble all the people at the Cathedral , and ...
... believe in and support one of the wretchedest of all the religious impostures one can find in Italy - the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius . Twice a year the priests assemble all the people at the Cathedral , and ...
Pagina 32
... believe a good majority of them are a hundred feet high ! And the solid brick walls are seven feet through . You go up nine flights of stairs before you get to the " first " floor . No , not nine , but there or thereabouts . There is a ...
... believe a good majority of them are a hundred feet high ! And the solid brick walls are seven feet through . You go up nine flights of stairs before you get to the " first " floor . No , not nine , but there or thereabouts . There is a ...
Pagina 72
... believe it does . Just as the earliest tinges of the dawn flushed the eastern sky and turned the pillared Parthenon to a broken harp hung in the pearly horizon , we closed our thirteenth mile of weary , round - about marching , and ...
... believe it does . Just as the earliest tinges of the dawn flushed the eastern sky and turned the pillared Parthenon to a broken harp hung in the pearly horizon , we closed our thirteenth mile of weary , round - about marching , and ...
Pagina 84
... believe all the interest that attaches to it comes from the fact that it was built for a Christian church and then turned into a mosque , without much alteration , by the Mohammedan conquerors of the land . They made 84 The Innocents ...
... believe all the interest that attaches to it comes from the fact that it was built for a Christian church and then turned into a mosque , without much alteration , by the Mohammedan conquerors of the land . They made 84 The Innocents ...
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ancient Arab Baalbec beautiful Bedouins Bible Bosporus boys bucksheesh built called camel camel trains camp Capernaum centuries CHAPTER Christ Christian church Constantinople cross Damascus desert desolate dogs donkeys dragoman earth Egypt Ephesus eyes feet fell Galilee Gennesaret girls grand grotto half hand head hill Holy Land horses hundred Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan journey King knew lived look marble midst miles Mosque Mount mountain Naples Nazareth never night once palace Palestine party passed picture pilgrims plain pleasant Pompeii ragged rock rode Rome ruin sail Samaria Saviour Sea of Galilee seemed seen Sepulchre Shechem ship Shunem Smyrna spot stand stone stood strange streets Syrian tell Temple things thou thought thousand Tiberias tion to-day tomb took true cross valley Vesuvius village walk walls woman wonder
Populaire passages
Pagina 179 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 206 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Pagina 143 - Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 308 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Pagina 317 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Pagina 314 - And they went to bury her : but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Pagina 160 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
Pagina 221 - And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Pagina 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 315 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.