Around the World with General Grant: A Narrative of the Visit of General U.S. Grant, Ex-president of the United States, to Various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1979 : to which are Added Certain Conversations with General Grant on Questions Connected with American Politics and History, Volume 1, Part 2American News Company, 1879 |
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... honor of General Grant's coming . There was an archway , and an inscription over it , " Welcome General Grant . " There was a large tent , called the headquarters of tourist expeditions through the Holy Land . The proprietor was at the ...
... honor of General Grant's coming . There was an archway , and an inscription over it , " Welcome General Grant . " There was a large tent , called the headquarters of tourist expeditions through the Holy Land . The proprietor was at the ...
Page 331
... honored and oppressed us in Egypt . But the General had scarcely drawn this picture of what his fancy hoped would await him in the Holy City , when the horseman came galloping out of the rain and mist , and told us we were expected ...
... honored and oppressed us in Egypt . But the General had scarcely drawn this picture of what his fancy hoped would await him in the Holy City , when the horseman came galloping out of the rain and mist , and told us we were expected ...
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... honor him as though he were another Alexander coming into a conquered town . We trailed up the winding ways of the hill -the hill which sheltered Jeru- salem from the Canaanite and Philistine . Jerusalem is two thousand five hundred ...
... honor him as though he were another Alexander coming into a conquered town . We trailed up the winding ways of the hill -the hill which sheltered Jeru- salem from the Canaanite and Philistine . Jerusalem is two thousand five hundred ...
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... honor . We see through the mist a mass of domes and towers , and the heart beats quickly , for we know they are the domes and towers of Jerusalem . There are ranks of soldiers drawn in line , the sol- diers presenting arms , the band ...
... honor . We see through the mist a mass of domes and towers , and the heart beats quickly , for we know they are the domes and towers of Jerusalem . There are ranks of soldiers drawn in line , the sol- diers presenting arms , the band ...
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... honor conferred upon him by welcoming General Grant to Palestine . The General returned this call with all the ceremony that we could command , which was made easy by the complaisance and good nature and the uniforms of our naval ...
... honor conferred upon him by welcoming General Grant to Palestine . The General returned this call with all the ceremony that we could command , which was made easy by the complaisance and good nature and the uniforms of our naval ...
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