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Pagina 6
... Walls of Jerusalem CHAPTER XXVI . • Description of Jerusalem - Church of the Holy Sepulchre - The - Grave of Jesus Monkish Impostures - Grave of Adam- Tomb of Melchizedek - The Place of the Crucifixion The " Sorrowful Way 99 CHAPTER ...
... Walls of Jerusalem CHAPTER XXVI . • Description of Jerusalem - Church of the Holy Sepulchre - The - Grave of Jesus Monkish Impostures - Grave of Adam- Tomb of Melchizedek - The Place of the Crucifixion The " Sorrowful Way 99 CHAPTER ...
Pagina 9
... there were quaint architectural structures of various kinds , built of shin bones and the bones of the arm ; on the wall were elaborate frescoes , whose curving vines were made of knotted human vertebræ ; whose ( 9 ) CHAPTER I.
... there were quaint architectural structures of various kinds , built of shin bones and the bones of the arm ; on the wall were elaborate frescoes , whose curving vines were made of knotted human vertebræ ; whose ( 9 ) CHAPTER I.
Pagina 15
... walls and ceilings fairly papered with them , might I not have a more civilized opinion of the old masters than I have now ? I think so . When I was a schoolboy and was to have a new knife , I could not make up my mind as to which was ...
... walls and ceilings fairly papered with them , might I not have a more civilized opinion of the old masters than I have now ? I think so . When I was a schoolboy and was to have a new knife , I could not make up my mind as to which was ...
Pagina 31
... walls and look at it in detail . That takes away some of the romance of the thing . The people are filthy in their habits , and this makes filthy streets and breeds disagreeable sights and smells . There never was a community so ...
... walls and look at it in detail . That takes away some of the romance of the thing . The people are filthy in their habits , and this makes filthy streets and breeds disagreeable sights and smells . There never was a community so ...
Pagina 32
... 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 little bird - cage of an iron railing in front of every window clear away up ...
... 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 little bird - cage of an iron railing in front of every window clear away up ...
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ancient Arab Baalbec beautiful Bedouins Beirout Bible bucksheesh built called camel camel trains camp Capernaum centuries Christ Christian church Constantinople costumes crown Damascus dead desert desolate dogs donkeys dragoman earth Emperor Ephesus Esdraelon eyes feet fell Figia Galilee Gennesaret girl Grand grotto half hand head hill Holy Land horses hundred Jaffa Jerusalem journey King knew lived look Magdala marble midst miles Mount mountain Nazareth never night once palace Palestine party passed picture pilgrims plain pleasant Pompeii Prion ragged rock rode ruin sail Saladin Saviour Sea of Galilee Sebastopol seemed seen Shechem ship Smyrna spot stand stone stood strange streets Syrian Temple tent things thou thought thousand Tiberias tion to-day tomb took town true cross umbrellas valley village walked walls 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 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.