The Lure of the Mediterranean: The Ship Dwellers: a Story of a Happy CruiseHarper & brothers, 1911 - 393 pages |
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... DONKEYS 340 THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR ONCE MORE REFLECTING ITS COLUMNS IN THE NILE 342 THINK OF WATERING A WHOLE WHEAT - FIELD WITH A WELL - SWEEP AND A PAIL . GOT IT MADE CHEAP SOMEWHERE , WITH HER PICTURE CARVED ON THE FRONT OF IT SET OUT ...
... DONKEYS 340 THE TEMPLE OF LUXOR ONCE MORE REFLECTING ITS COLUMNS IN THE NILE 342 THINK OF WATERING A WHOLE WHEAT - FIELD WITH A WELL - SWEEP AND A PAIL . GOT IT MADE CHEAP SOMEWHERE , WITH HER PICTURE CARVED ON THE FRONT OF IT SET OUT ...
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... donkeys - very small donkeys with great pack baskets of vegetables and other merchandise - but we could not well observe these things because of the beggars and bootblacks and would - be guides , besides all the sellers of postal cards ...
... donkeys - very small donkeys with great pack baskets of vegetables and other merchandise - but we could not well observe these things because of the beggars and bootblacks and would - be guides , besides all the sellers of postal cards ...
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... donkeys lost in their loads of fruit . I was in a carriage with Laura and the Diplomat , and the Diplomat translated Greek signs , rejoicing to find that he could make out some of the words ; also that he could get a rise out of the ...
... donkeys lost in their loads of fruit . I was in a carriage with Laura and the Diplomat , and the Diplomat translated Greek signs , rejoicing to find that he could make out some of the words ; also that he could get a rise out of the ...
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... donkeys- the poor , patient little beasts of burden that plod through those thoroughfares , weighed down with great loads of brick and dirt and wood and every sort of heavy thing , enough to make a camel sway- backed , I should think ...
... donkeys- the poor , patient little beasts of burden that plod through those thoroughfares , weighed down with great loads of brick and dirt and wood and every sort of heavy thing , enough to make a camel sway- backed , I should think ...
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... donkeys then ; also with the wheeled vehicles of that period - cars and chariots and cages of wild animals for the games- and there would be elephants , too , gaudily caparisoned , carrying some rich potentate of the East and his ...
... donkeys then ; also with the wheeled vehicles of that period - cars and chariots and cages of wild animals for the games- and there would be elephants , too , gaudily caparisoned , carrying some rich potentate of the East and his ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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