The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 2Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 |
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Pagina 9
... human bones ! There were shapely arches , built wholly of thigh bones ; there were startling pyramids , built wholly of grinning skulls ; there were quaint architectural structures of various kinds , built of shin bones and the bones of ...
... human bones ! There were shapely arches , built wholly of thigh bones ; there were startling pyramids , built wholly of grinning skulls ; there were quaint architectural structures of various kinds , built of shin bones and the bones of ...
Pagina 10
Mark Twain. curving vines were made of knotted human vertebræ ; whose delicate tendrils were made of sinews and ten- dons ; whose flowers were formed of knee - caps and toe - nails . Every lasting portion of the human frame was ...
Mark Twain. curving vines were made of knotted human vertebræ ; whose delicate tendrils were made of sinews and ten- dons ; whose flowers were formed of knee - caps and toe - nails . Every lasting portion of the human frame was ...
Pagina 18
... human nature . This is in letters of gold around the apsis of a mosaic group at the side of the scala santa , church of St. John Lateran , the Mother and Mistress of all the Catholic churches of the world . The group represents the ...
... human nature . This is in letters of gold around the apsis of a mosaic group at the side of the scala santa , church of St. John Lateran , the Mother and Mistress of all the Catholic churches of the world . The group represents the ...
Pagina 31
... humanity ! We never saw the like of it , hardly even in New York , I think . There are seldom any side- walks , and when there are , they are not often wide enough to pass a man on without caroming on him . So everybody walks in the ...
... humanity ! We never saw the like of it , hardly even in New York , I think . There are seldom any side- walks , and when there are , they are not often wide enough to pass a man on without caroming on him . So everybody walks in the ...
Pagina 37
... human villainy , with the landlord of the Grande Sentinelle for a model . So we went to Procida , and from thence to Pozzuoli , where St. Paul landed after he sailed from Samos . I landed at precisely the same spot where St. Paul landed ...
... human villainy , with the landlord of the Grande Sentinelle for a model . So we went to Procida , and from thence to Pozzuoli , where St. Paul landed after he sailed from Samos . I landed at precisely the same spot where St. Paul landed ...
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ancient Arab Baalbec beautiful Bedouins Bible Bosporus bucksheesh built called camel camel trains camp Capernaum centuries Christ Christian church Constantinople costumes crown Damascus dead desert desolate dogs donkeys dragoman earth Egypt Emperor Ephesus eyes feet fell Galilee Gennesaret girl Grand grotto half hand head hill Holy Land horses hundred Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan journey King knew lived look marble miles Mosque Mount mountain Naples never night once oyster palace Palestine party passed picture pilgrims plain pleasant Pompeii princes Prion ragged rock rode ruin Russia sail Saviour Sea of Galilee Sebastopol seemed seen Shechem ship Smyrna spot stand stone stood strange stranger streets Syrian Temple things thousand Tiberias tion to-day tomb took town true cross unto valley Vesuvius village visited walk walls wonderful
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 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...
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.
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 236 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 69 - Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
Pagina 69 - For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars...
Pagina 69 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Pagina 308 - And he came and touched the bier, (and they that bare him stood still,) and he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak : and he delivered him to his mother.