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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Page 323
... looks like one of our Western railway towns . Here was the Kansas order of architecture , which was homelike in its homeliness . These houses are all that remain of a movement that took its rise in New England some years ago , a ...
... looks like one of our Western railway towns . Here was the Kansas order of architecture , which was homelike in its homeliness . These houses are all that remain of a movement that took its rise in New England some years ago , a ...
Page 324
... look , and some groves of orange trees , which were in full leaf and fruit , and brightened up with an imperial coloring the landscape under our chamber windows . We made a pilgrimage through the mud and the narrow , JAFFA . 325 dingy ...
... look , and some groves of orange trees , which were in full leaf and fruit , and brightened up with an imperial coloring the landscape under our chamber windows . We made a pilgrimage through the mud and the narrow , JAFFA . 325 dingy ...
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... look out upon the sea , that rolled beneath them even as we behold it now , and talk no doubt of the many wonders that had been seen in Jerusalem . It was on this housetop where Peter came to pray , and where being hungry he fell into a ...
... look out upon the sea , that rolled beneath them even as we behold it now , and talk no doubt of the many wonders that had been seen in Jerusalem . It was on this housetop where Peter came to pray , and where being hungry he fell into a ...
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... looks like snow . In some of the valleys we note clusters of olive trees . The fertility of Palestine lies in the plain below . Around and ahead is the beauty of Palestine - the beauty of nature in her desolation - no houses , no farms ...
... looks like snow . In some of the valleys we note clusters of olive trees . The fertility of Palestine lies in the plain below . Around and ahead is the beauty of Palestine - the beauty of nature in her desolation - no houses , no farms ...
Page 333
... look out upon an open street or market place where Arabs are selling fruits and grain and heavy - laden peasants are bearing skins filled with water and wine . The market place swarms with Jews , Arabs , Moslems , Christians . Horsemen ...
... look out upon an open street or market place where Arabs are selling fruits and grain and heavy - laden peasants are bearing skins filled with water and wine . The market place swarms with Jews , Arabs , Moslems , Christians . Horsemen ...
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