The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of two youths in a journey to Egypt and the Holy Land. Part fourthHarper & brothers, 1883 - 438 páginas |
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... believe we are not to stop anywhere on the way . " The time was passed pleasantly enough on the steamer . The weather was so warm that the passengers preferred the deck to the stifling cabins , and the majority of them slept there every ...
... believe we are not to stop anywhere on the way . " The time was passed pleasantly enough on the steamer . The weather was so warm that the passengers preferred the deck to the stifling cabins , and the majority of them slept there every ...
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... believe in their religion . They might quote a good many occurrences in various parts of Europe in the past five hundred years , and could even remind us that the Puritans , in New England , hanged three men and one woman , and put many ...
... believe in their religion . They might quote a good many occurrences in various parts of Europe in the past five hundred years , and could even remind us that the Puritans , in New England , hanged three men and one woman , and put many ...
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... believe , " the Doc- tor continued , " that the sea was far- ther inland three thousand years ago , and that the crossing was made about ten miles farther north than where we now stand . There is some diffi- culty in locating all the ...
... believe , " the Doc- tor continued , " that the sea was far- ther inland three thousand years ago , and that the crossing was made about ten miles farther north than where we now stand . There is some diffi- culty in locating all the ...
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... believe that URBETT EDMONDS.Sc . THE PYRAMIDS . they were the work of human hands , and were only a few hundred feet in height . In a little while the attention of the youths was drawn to the minarets of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali and ...
... believe that URBETT EDMONDS.Sc . THE PYRAMIDS . they were the work of human hands , and were only a few hundred feet in height . In a little while the attention of the youths was drawn to the minarets of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali and ...
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... believe he is not speaking the truth , and offer him thirty . He declares that the thing cost him fifty , but he will take forty - five , and absolutely nothing less . You offer him thirty - five - he falls to forty , and the bargain is ...
... believe he is not speaking the truth , and offer him thirty . He declares that the thing cost him fifty , but he will take forty - five , and absolutely nothing less . You offer him thirty - five - he falls to forty , and the bargain is ...
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Página 361 - Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Página 360 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Página 113 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Página 113 - And thou hast walked about (how strange a story !) In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous ! 2.
Página 408 - Are not Pharpar and Abana, rivers of Damascus, better than all the rivers of Israel?" Your objections to such an attempt, my dear Doctor, were, you may remember, two-fold. You insisted upon the advantages which the Scotsman possessed, from the very recent existence of that state of society in which his scene was to be laid. Many now alive, you remarked, well remembered...
Página 416 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.