Cities of the World: Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect, Volume 3Edwin Hodder Cassell & Company, 1886 |
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... numerous , but they have a monastery which is the residence of a bishop . The Syrians of the ancient church ( Jacobites ) are under the protection of the Armenians , but have a bishop and a few priests ; and the poor Abyssinians , who ...
... numerous , but they have a monastery which is the residence of a bishop . The Syrians of the ancient church ( Jacobites ) are under the protection of the Armenians , but have a bishop and a few priests ; and the poor Abyssinians , who ...
Page 268
... numerous other edifices , including more than three hundred houses of the citizens , were destroyed , and hundreds of others more or less damaged . A little girl sitting at work at her bedroom window , and a mother nursing her baby at a ...
... numerous other edifices , including more than three hundred houses of the citizens , were destroyed , and hundreds of others more or less damaged . A little girl sitting at work at her bedroom window , and a mother nursing her baby at a ...
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... numerous tombs in this church — of writers , philosophers , artists , architects , and nobles — we must only select one other , that of the poet Alfieri , who died in 1803. He was the founder of Italian Tragedy , and a fervent patriot ...
... numerous tombs in this church — of writers , philosophers , artists , architects , and nobles — we must only select one other , that of the poet Alfieri , who died in 1803. He was the founder of Italian Tragedy , and a fervent patriot ...
Contents
JERUSALEM | 1 |
BRUSSELS AND THE CITIES OF BELGIUM | 33 |
The Ancient Navigators The Swedish ColonyWilliam Penn the Founder of the CityThe Dreary Morning | 92 |
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