Europe, Through a Woman's EyeLutheran Publication Society, 1883 - 225 páginas |
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... cross the track ; but in all cases of intersection , a bridge is built over the track , or the track bridges over the car- riage and footway - thus preventing the many accidents com- mon in America . The buildings in England are all of ...
... cross the track ; but in all cases of intersection , a bridge is built over the track , or the track bridges over the car- riage and footway - thus preventing the many accidents com- mon in America . The buildings in England are all of ...
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... cross . The interior is very beautiful , decorated with paintings and other works of art of a national and historic character . It is three hundred and sixty- nine feet long , and two hundred and seventy - six feet wide ; sur- mounted ...
... cross . The interior is very beautiful , decorated with paintings and other works of art of a national and historic character . It is three hundred and sixty- nine feet long , and two hundred and seventy - six feet wide ; sur- mounted ...
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... cross on which is the crucified Redeemer . Over the entrance to the crypt is the following extract from the Emperor's will : " I desire that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine , in the midst of the French people , whom I have ...
... cross on which is the crucified Redeemer . Over the entrance to the crypt is the following extract from the Emperor's will : " I desire that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine , in the midst of the French people , whom I have ...
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... Crosses of all descriptions are set up by the roadside , bearing the word Mission , and the date . One was a bronze cross on a stone pedestal , with the figure of the crucified Saviour , where Catholics come to pray . This seemed very ...
... Crosses of all descriptions are set up by the roadside , bearing the word Mission , and the date . One was a bronze cross on a stone pedestal , with the figure of the crucified Saviour , where Catholics come to pray . This seemed very ...
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... cross over great yawning chasms , hundreds of feet deep , where a misstep would have soon ushered us into eternity . We descended the mountain on the other side , by a narrow path , to the celebrated Mauvais Pas ( the bad path ) a steep ...
... cross over great yawning chasms , hundreds of feet deep , where a misstep would have soon ushered us into eternity . We descended the mountain on the other side , by a narrow path , to the celebrated Mauvais Pas ( the bad path ) a steep ...
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Página 68 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
Página 218 - Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting, Delaying and straying and playing and spraying, Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing...
Página 31 - A sunbeam which hath lost its way, And through the crevice and the cleft Of the thick wall is fallen and left; Creeping o'er the floor so damp, Like a marsh's meteor lamp...
Página 208 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand, "Twixt poplars straight, the osier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Página vii - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Página 32 - I ought to do — and did my best — And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him — with eyes as blue as heaven...
Página 149 - There is an acre sown with royal seed, the copy of the greatest change, from rich to naked, from ceiled roofs to arched coffins, from living like gods to die like men.
Página 74 - To see it crumbling there, an inch a year; its walls and arches overgrown with green; its corridors open to the day; the long grass growing in its porches ; young trees of yesterday, springing up on its ragged parapets, and bearing fruit: chance produce of the seeds dropped there by the birds who...
Página 149 - Here's an acre sown indeed With the richest, royal'st seed, That the earth did e'er suck in Since the first man died for sin; Here the bones of birth have cried, "Though gods they were, as men they died"; Here are sands, ignoble things Dropt from the ruin'd sides of kings.
Página 149 - Sleep within these heaps of stones: Here they lie, had realms and lands, Who now want strength to stir their hands: Where from their pulpits seal'd with dust They preach, 'In greatness is no trust.