The Ship-dwellers: A Story of a Happy CruiseHarper and brothers, 1910 - 393 pages |
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... built into steep hillsides , with streets a few feet wide , shops six feet square or less , the dreaming shopkeeper in easy reach of every article of his paltry trade . I do not think it is a very clean place . Of course the matter of ...
... built into steep hillsides , with streets a few feet wide , shops six feet square or less , the dreaming shopkeeper in easy reach of every article of his paltry trade . I do not think it is a very clean place . Of course the matter of ...
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... built into a fort . This was in 1569 , and about forty years later a Spanish writer described the event and told exactly how that particular block could be located . The fort stood for nearly three hundred years . Then in 1853 it was ...
... built into a fort . This was in 1569 , and about forty years later a Spanish writer described the event and told exactly how that particular block could be located . The fort stood for nearly three hundred years . Then in 1853 it was ...
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... built in the ninth century , and is the first church we have seen that has interested us . In it Laura noticed again the absence of seats ; for they kneel , on this side of the water , and know not the comfort of pews . We passed ...
... built in the ninth century , and is the first church we have seen that has interested us . In it Laura noticed again the absence of seats ; for they kneel , on this side of the water , and know not the comfort of pews . We passed ...
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... built , I should think- all built of the pure white pentelican , the marble scats ranging tier upon tier and stretching away until it looks as if the audiences of the world might be seated there . It was the Stadium , the scene of the ...
... built , I should think- all built of the pure white pentelican , the marble scats ranging tier upon tier and stretching away until it looks as if the audiences of the world might be seated there . It was the Stadium , the scene of the ...
Page 126
... built it himself or it wouldn't have been like that . It looks as if it had been built by an economical successor . However , it is complimentary enough . On the side toward what was then the new part of Athens , called Hadrianople , is ...
... built it himself or it wouldn't have been like that . It looks as if it had been built by an economical successor . However , it is complimentary enough . On the side toward what was then the new part of Athens , called Hadrianople , is ...
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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 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 289 - Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest ; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about : for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.
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.