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... Carthage , still I should deserve the gratitude of travellers . In a work of this nature I have often been obliged to pass from the most seri- ous reflections to the most familiar circumstances : now indulging my reveries among the ...
... Carthage , still I should deserve the gratitude of travellers . In a work of this nature I have often been obliged to pass from the most seri- ous reflections to the most familiar circumstances : now indulging my reveries among the ...
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... Carthage.j Cosroes took Jerusalem in 613. Heraclius restor- ed to the tomb of Christ , the real cross which the Persian monarch had taken away . Twenty - three years afterwards , Omar made himself master of the Holy city , which ...
... Carthage.j Cosroes took Jerusalem in 613. Heraclius restor- ed to the tomb of Christ , the real cross which the Persian monarch had taken away . Twenty - three years afterwards , Omar made himself master of the Holy city , which ...
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... Carthage . I was therefore solicitous to perform a pil- grimage to Jerusalem : Qui devoto Il grand sepolcro adora , e sciogle il voto . At the present day it may appear somewhat strange to talk of Vows and pilgrimages ; but in regard to ...
... Carthage . I was therefore solicitous to perform a pil- grimage to Jerusalem : Qui devoto Il grand sepolcro adora , e sciogle il voto . At the present day it may appear somewhat strange to talk of Vows and pilgrimages ; but in regard to ...
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... Carthage , I was shown the camp of the French , the tower of the French , the castle of the French . The Arab has pointed out to me the tombs of our soldiers beneath the sycamores of Cairo , and the Siminole under the oaks of Florida ...
... Carthage , I was shown the camp of the French , the tower of the French , the castle of the French . The Arab has pointed out to me the tombs of our soldiers beneath the sycamores of Cairo , and the Siminole under the oaks of Florida ...
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... Carthage , and a plaster moulding from the Al- hambra . I have spent fifty thousand francs on my tour , and left behind me my linen and my arms as presents . Had it lasted a little longer I should have returned on foot with a white ...
... Carthage , and a plaster moulding from the Al- hambra . I have spent fifty thousand francs on my tour , and left behind me my linen and my arms as presents . Had it lasted a little longer I should have returned on foot with a white ...
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Page 120 - Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of •waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren...
Page 138 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (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.) 22.
Page 290 - And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Page 291 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Page 17 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
Page 386 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 120 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the "sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 303 - AND it came to pass, that as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 387 - Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Page 387 - All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, " Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth...