The World and Its People, Book 5

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Larkin Dunton
Silver, Burdett, 1896

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Page 201 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 344 - Byron's lines: The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone I dreamed that Greece might still be...
Page 366 - ... time by some of the Preobrazhensky and strangely enough by the Pavlovsky which arrived with its band playing. He had hardly any shell or cartridges, and access to the northern factories was of course out of the question. Some of his officers were already urging him to make his peace with Rodzyanko. The fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, on the north side of the river, was besieged. There were barricades on the broad Liteiny Prospekt near the Duma. Most of the troops, including the Guards, had...
Page 37 - English coronation chair. Below the seat, set in the open framework, is the famous Scone stone. Upon this rock the Scottish kings were crowned, and it was a crushing blow to Scotland when Edward I. carried it away to England. From that time the English .kings have been crowned upon the Scone stone. Henry VII.'s chapel was an important addition to the Abbey, and a very beautiful one. It is separated from the older building by a flight of stairs and ornamental brass gates. Perhaps the two most interesting...
Page 108 - Standing in the central space and looking up the streets in the four directions, one sees the vistas closed on three sides by mountains, and on the fourth side by the green sea.
Page 5 - ... schools and parents, and then with its lack of systematic arrangement, and its consequent ill adaptation to the needs of young people. It is for the purpose of supplying this defect, that the publishers have decided to issue a series of volumes, under the general title of the YOUNG FOLKS
Page 357 - Then four minarets were built surrounding the dome. The sacred paintings upon the walls were partially hidden beneath a coat of whitewash ; the stand for the Koran was set up; and a mark was made, indicating the direction of the holy city of Mecca, toward which all good Mussulmans face when they pray. St. Sophia was once in the East what St. Peter's is still in the West. It was the head of the Eastern Church, its banner, its figure head. Its desecration to a mosque was a great blow to Christendom....
Page 100 - ... dark soap; other kinds are more attractive. Oftentimes at the hotels or on shipboard, they set out as many as a dozen different varieties of cheese, causing the table to appear like a table at an agricultural fair. The farmer's food is very simple. It consists of porridge and milk, fish, dried and salted meats, potatoes, cheese, and bread. The whole family, including the servants, gather about the rough board table. Here their manners are far from elegant. If they desire some distant article...
Page 175 - ... German soldier, which was to be sung when they marched in triumph into Strasburg, may show you the spirit of the times: — " In Alsace, over the Rhine, There lives a brother of mine; It grieves my soul to say He hath forgot the day We were one land and line. " Dear brother, torn apart, Is't true that changed thou art? The French have clasped on thee Their fetters, as we see ; Have they Frenchified thy heart ? " Hark! that's the Prussian drum, And it tells the time has come; We have made one...
Page 264 - There are five naves running the whole length of the church, while at the far end of the vista appear a brilliant altar and several officiating priests. They seem so far away that, from one point of view, they might almost be in another world. The organ plays, the sweet-voiced choir chants, and the thousands of worshipers prostrate themselves upon the pavement in prayer. Here the French sovereigns have been crowned and married for five hundred years.

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