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Pagina 42
... visited it . It was well worth it . It is said that during one of the grand eruptions of Vesuvius it discharged massy rocks weighing many tons a thousand feet into the air , its vast jets of smoke and steam ascended thirty miles toward ...
... visited it . It was well worth it . It is said that during one of the grand eruptions of Vesuvius it discharged massy rocks weighing many tons a thousand feet into the air , its vast jets of smoke and steam ascended thirty miles toward ...
Pagina 59
... visiting Athens ! Dis- appointment was hardly a strong enough word to de- scribe the circumstances . 1 All hands were on deck , all the afternoon , with books and maps and glasses , trying to determine which " narrow rocky ridge " was ...
... visiting Athens ! Dis- appointment was hardly a strong enough word to de- scribe the circumstances . 1 All hands were on deck , all the afternoon , with books and maps and glasses , trying to determine which " narrow rocky ridge " was ...
Pagina 86
... visited the Dancing Dervishes . There were twenty - one of them . They wore a long , light- colored loose robe that hung to their heels . Each in his turn went up to the priest ( they were all within a large circular railing ) and bowed ...
... visited the Dancing Dervishes . There were twenty - one of them . They wore a long , light- colored loose robe that hung to their heels . Each in his turn went up to the priest ( they were all within a large circular railing ) and bowed ...
Pagina 88
... visited the Thousand and One Columns . 1 do not know what it was originally intended for , but they said it was built for a reservoir . It is situated in the center of Constantinople . You go down a flight of stone steps in the middle ...
... visited the Thousand and One Columns . 1 do not know what it was originally intended for , but they said it was built for a reservoir . It is situated in the center of Constantinople . You go down a flight of stone steps in the middle ...
Pagina 128
... visited royalty and felt occasionally that possibly you might be wearing out your welcome - though as a general thing , I believe , royalty is not scrupulous about discharging you when it is done with you . The Grand Duke is the third ...
... visited royalty and felt occasionally that possibly you might be wearing out your welcome - though as a general thing , I believe , royalty is not scrupulous about discharging you when it is done with you . The Grand Duke is the third ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 177 - 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 141 - 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 158 - 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 - 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 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 234 - 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 306 - 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.