A Tour Around the World in 1884: Or Sketches of Travel in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres : Embracing an Account of Europe, Egypt, Palestine, India, Ceylon, Straits Settlement, China, Japan, and America |
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A Tour Around the World in 1884: Or Sketches of Travel in the Eastern and ... John B Gorman No preview available - 2015 |
A Tour Around the World in 1884: Or Sketches of Travel in the Eastern and ... John B. Gorman No preview available - 2014 |
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acres ancient Arabs backshish bamboo Barrock baths beautiful Benares Bible Bombay building built Cairo Calcutta canal cents Ceylon charming Cheers China Chinese Christian Church coolie cotton crop cultivated dead Delhi dollars dome donkeys Egypt English feet high fifty five flowers four front fruit Ganges gardens gate Georgia gharry girls Government grand hills Hindoo Holy horses Hotel houses immense India Jaffa Jaffa gate Jehoshaphat Jerusalem Jews king ladies land live lofty looked magnificent marble miles million Mohammedans mosque Mount of Olives mountains Naples native nearly never once oranges palace Palestine pass Plain of Sharon present pretty priest railroad rise river road rock ruins sampans Saviour seen Shah Jehan Shanghai ship side Sinclair Sir John Sir John Sinclair splendid spot stone streets summit temples thirty thousand feet tomb trees twenty valley village walk walls women worship
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Page 209 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 467 - Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
Page 184 - Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
Page 430 - What though the spicy breezes Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, Though every prospect pleases, And only man is vile...
Page 30 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Page 303 - grave : this grass is the best covering for the tomb of the " poor in spirit. The humble, the transitory Jehanara, the " disciple of the holy men of Cheest, the daughter of the
Page 30 - Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved ! If any man ask, ' Who lies in this tomb ?' ' Oh, oh !' quoth the devil, ' 'tis my John a Combe !' But the sharpness of the satire is said to have stung the man so severely, that he never forgave it.
Page 214 - And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem, Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
Page 414 - It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.
Page 187 - Nay, my lord, hear me : the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee ; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.