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 341
... present to the writer . It may have been the rain and the snow , which came , during our visit , with a severity which had not been known for years - but Jerusalem impressed you as a sad city . Or it may have been the remem- brance of ...
... present to the writer . It may have been the rain and the snow , which came , during our visit , with a severity which had not been known for years - but Jerusalem impressed you as a sad city . Or it may have been the remem- brance of ...
Page 343
... present grade , a fact confirming your belief in the Hill of Calvary . There was a visit to Bethlehem , which was disagreeable on account of the rain and snow , and severely tried all the members of the party . There was a dinner at the ...
... present grade , a fact confirming your belief in the Hill of Calvary . There was a visit to Bethlehem , which was disagreeable on account of the rain and snow , and severely tried all the members of the party . There was a dinner at the ...
Page 348
... present has always courted sieges . Here sooner or later will swords again be crossed and shots be fired , until the Bosphorus becomes the dividing line between two races of a different creed . But our party is so entire- ly unmilitary ...
... present has always courted sieges . Here sooner or later will swords again be crossed and shots be fired , until the Bosphorus becomes the dividing line between two races of a different creed . But our party is so entire- ly unmilitary ...
Page 349
... present . Turk does not care for high The Mente decorative art in his mosques , and much that was beautiful with the miracles of Byzantine art have been covered over -perhaps defaced . Partly church , partly mosque , it still awes one ...
... present . Turk does not care for high The Mente decorative art in his mosques , and much that was beautiful with the miracles of Byzantine art have been covered over -perhaps defaced . Partly church , partly mosque , it still awes one ...
Page 351
... present had with the leading events of our own civil war , and the conspi- cuous part played by General Grant . We found , what was not surprising , that the excellence of American arms was fully as- serted by an ordnance officer present ...
... present had with the leading events of our own civil war , and the conspi- cuous part played by General Grant . We found , what was not surprising , that the excellence of American arms was fully as- serted by an ordnance officer present ...
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