The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dwellers: a Story of a Happy CruiseHarper & brothers, 1911 - 393 pages |
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... Christian people had suffered the horrors of Algerian bondage , but with that July day , 1830 , came the end of this barbarism , since which time Algiers has acquired a new habit — the habit of jumping at the crack of the French whip ...
... Christian people had suffered the horrors of Algerian bondage , but with that July day , 1830 , came the end of this barbarism , since which time Algiers has acquired a new habit — the habit of jumping at the crack of the French whip ...
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... Christian Dog . " I do not think I was afraid , but I thought of these things , and wondered how many years would be likely to pass before anybody would get a trace of what had become of me , if anything did become of me , and what that ...
... Christian Dog . " I do not think I was afraid , but I thought of these things , and wondered how many years would be likely to pass before anybody would get a trace of what had become of me , if anything did become of me , and what that ...
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... Christian . Presently I felt that somebody was following me . I took a casual look and made up my mind that it was true . There were quantities of smoking , drinking people all about , but I didn't feel any safer for that . I stepped ...
... Christian . Presently I felt that somebody was following me . I took a casual look and made up my mind that it was true . There were quantities of smoking , drinking people all about , but I didn't feel any safer for that . I stepped ...
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... Christianity in Greece . I got into a row myself , presently , with one of the boys , just because I happened to make some little classical allusion - I have forgotten what it was now , and I didn't seem to know much about it then 119 A ...
... Christianity in Greece . I got into a row myself , presently , with one of the boys , just because I happened to make some little classical allusion - I have forgotten what it was now , and I didn't seem to know much about it then 119 A ...
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... Christ over three hundred years , and was rebuilt something less than five hundred years later by the Averof of that day , Herodes Atticus , whose body was buried there . Then came the tumble and crumble of European glory ; the place ...
... Christ over three hundred years , and was rebuilt something less than five hundred years later by the Averof of that day , Herodes Atticus , whose body was buried there . Then came the tumble and crumble of European glory ; the place ...
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Page 136 - Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. 32 IT And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Page 135 - Then Paul stood in the midst of 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.
Page 31 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 135 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Page 99 - And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
Page 300 - For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
Page 274 - And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain.
Page 135 - 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...
Page 300 - Reader. Because of the Temple which is destroyed, Because of the walls which are broken down, Because of our greatness which is departed, Because of the precious stones of the Temple ground to powder, Because of our priests who have erred and gone astray, Because of our kings who have contemned God — People. We sit alone and weep.
Page 226 - And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.