The Writings of Mark TwainHarper, 1899 |
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Mark Twain. ILLUSTRATIONS A CORNER IN THE CAPUCHIN CONVENT Frontispiece OUR PARTY OF EIGHT Peter Newell • · 213 THE TOMB OF ADAM . • Peter Newell • · 337 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The Capuchin Convent — A Festive Company.
Mark Twain. ILLUSTRATIONS A CORNER IN THE CAPUCHIN CONVENT Frontispiece OUR PARTY OF EIGHT Peter Newell • · 213 THE TOMB OF ADAM . • Peter Newell • · 337 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. The Capuchin Convent — A Festive Company.
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... eight hours . We were just about to go to bed early in the evening , and catch up on some of the sleep we had lost , when we heard of this Vesuvius expedition . There were to be eight of us in the party , and we were to leave Naples at ...
... eight hours . We were just about to go to bed early in the evening , and catch up on some of the sleep we had lost , when we heard of this Vesuvius expedition . There were to be eight of us in the party , and we were to leave Naples at ...
Pagina 26
... eight days this dismal farce is repeated , while the priests go among the crowd and collect money for the exhibition . The first day , the blood liquefies in forty - seven minutes - the church is crammed , then , and time must be ...
... eight days this dismal farce is repeated , while the priests go among the crowd and collect money for the exhibition . The first day , the blood liquefies in forty - seven minutes - the church is crammed , then , and time must be ...
Pagina 35
... eight dollars in Marseilles and four dollars here . Lyons velvets rank higher in America than those of Genoa . Yet the bulk of Lyons velvets you buy in the States are made in Genoa and imported into Lyons , where they receive the Lyons ...
... eight dollars in Marseilles and four dollars here . Lyons velvets rank higher in America than those of Genoa . Yet the bulk of Lyons velvets you buy in the States are made in Genoa and imported into Lyons , where they receive the Lyons ...
Pagina 38
... eight- een hundred feet above the sea , and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt . For the next two miles the road was a mixture some- times the ascent was abrupt and sometimes it was not ; but one characteristic it ...
... eight- een hundred feet above the sea , and thus far a portion of the ascent had been pretty abrupt . For the next two miles the road was a mixture some- times the ascent was abrupt and sometimes it was not ; but one characteristic it ...
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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 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 306 - 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 315 - 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 312 - 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 313 - 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.
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 - So we boiled my son, and did eat him : and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
Pagina 238 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.