Cities of the world, Volume 2Cassell & Company Limited, 1881 |
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... covering nearly three acres , cost about £ 600,000 , and has accom- modation for 1,200 guests . Externally , it is ... covered with a glass roof at the top of the building . At evening , when this inner square is brilliantly lighted up ...
... covering nearly three acres , cost about £ 600,000 , and has accom- modation for 1,200 guests . Externally , it is ... covered with a glass roof at the top of the building . At evening , when this inner square is brilliantly lighted up ...
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... covering nearly three acres , cost about £ 600,000 , and has accom- modation for 1,200 guests . Externally , it is ... covered with a glass roof at the top of the building . At evening , when this inner square is brilliantly lighted up ...
... covering nearly three acres , cost about £ 600,000 , and has accom- modation for 1,200 guests . Externally , it is ... covered with a glass roof at the top of the building . At evening , when this inner square is brilliantly lighted up ...
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... covered with drifting banks of dust . As Hepworth Dixon said : " From month to month the seasons come and go in one soft round of spring . In winter it is May ; in summer it is only June . " That is the English way of stating it ; the ...
... covered with drifting banks of dust . As Hepworth Dixon said : " From month to month the seasons come and go in one soft round of spring . In winter it is May ; in summer it is only June . " That is the English way of stating it ; the ...
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... covered with wild mustard , hedges of cactus , vanishing brooks , artificial irrigation , groves of mulberries , bare and burnt mountains , dead seas , siroccos , precious wells , disastrous droughts , the wine - presses , the almond ...
... covered with wild mustard , hedges of cactus , vanishing brooks , artificial irrigation , groves of mulberries , bare and burnt mountains , dead seas , siroccos , precious wells , disastrous droughts , the wine - presses , the almond ...
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... covered with firm green turf . On the right of these works , at the southern portal of the Golden Gate ( here about a mile wide ) , stands a huge fortress of stone and brick , mounting 100 guns , in four tiers , and on three sides ...
... covered with firm green turf . On the right of these works , at the southern portal of the Golden Gate ( here about a mile wide ) , stands a huge fortress of stone and brick , mounting 100 guns , in four tiers , and on three sides ...
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Page 111 - The horror of the night, the precipice scaled by Wolfe, the empire he with a handful of men added to England, and the glorious catastrophe of contentedly terminating life where his fame began Ancient story may be ransacked, and ostentatious philosophy thrown into the account, before an episode can be found to rank with Wolfe's.
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Page 67 - Upon ancient dynasties of Ethiopian and Egyptian kings, upon Greek and Roman, upon Arab and Ottoman conquerors, upon Napoleon dreaming of an Eastern empire, upon battle and pestilence, upon the ceaseless misery of the Egyptian race, upon keen-eyed travellers — Herodotus yesterday and Warburton to-day — upon all and more, this unworldly Sphinx has watched and watched like a Providence, with the same earnest eyes, and the same sad, tranquil mien.
Page 72 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 139 - It has, in fact, nothing which can properly be termed ornament. It is a sanctuary so pure and stainless, revealing so exalted a spirit of worship, that I felt humbled, as a Christian, to think that our nobler religion has so rarely inspired its architects to surpass this temple to God and Mohammed.
Page 63 - Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. 13. The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.
Page 172 - Fairer seems the ancient city, and the sunshine seems more fair, That he once has trod its pavement, that he once has breathed its air!
Page 67 - Laugh and mock if you will at the worship of stone idols, but mark ye this, ye breakers of images— that in one regard the stone idol bears awful semblance of Deity — unchangefulness in the midst of change, the same seeming will and intent for ever and ever inexorable. Upon ancient dynasties of Ethiopian and Egyptian kings, upon Greek and Roman, upon Arab and Ottoman conquerors, upon Napoleon dreaming of an Eastern empire, upon battle and...
Page 215 - Conon said, it was sufficient to read his work on the true religion to be satisfied that he was ignorant of the first principles of theology. Being more of a politician than a theologian, he found the secret of remaining peacefully in China. The kings found in him a man full of complaisance; the pagans a minister who accommodated himself to their superstitions; the Mandarins a polite courtier, skilled in all the trickery of courts; and the devil a faithful servant, who, far from destroying, established...
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