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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... tion , of all trace of human existence , is the fact that meets and oppresses you . The hills have been washed bare by centuries of neglect , and terraced slopes that were once rich with all the THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM . 329 fruits of ...
... tion , of all trace of human existence , is the fact that meets and oppresses you . The hills have been washed bare by centuries of neglect , and terraced slopes that were once rich with all the THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM . 329 fruits of ...
Page 340
... tion . We The good monk gathered some flowers for Mrs. Grant , and for the others twigs and leaves from the Tree of Agony . climbed the Mount of Olives to the summit . We entered the chapel said to be the site of the Ascension - now a ...
... tion . We The good monk gathered some flowers for Mrs. Grant , and for the others twigs and leaves from the Tree of Agony . climbed the Mount of Olives to the summit . We entered the chapel said to be the site of the Ascension - now a ...
Page 368
... tion without finding GIOTTO'S TOWER . speare is with us . know through a some one from the United States busy with brush and pal- ette , diligently work- ing away , and study- ing the grand old masters . Florence is in- deed sacred ...
... tion without finding GIOTTO'S TOWER . speare is with us . know through a some one from the United States busy with brush and pal- ette , diligently work- ing away , and study- ing the grand old masters . Florence is in- deed sacred ...
Page 378
... tion , and Paris was now talking of nothing else than this Ex- hibition . The American Centennial has been such a recent event , that I need not trouble my readers with any description of the French Exhibition . In fact , the accounts ...
... tion , and Paris was now talking of nothing else than this Ex- hibition . The American Centennial has been such a recent event , that I need not trouble my readers with any description of the French Exhibition . In fact , the accounts ...
Page 387
... tion is paid not only to ichthyology , but to all the economical methods of preparing fish . If it is to Frenchmen that is due the method of preparing champagne , it is a Dutchman who first pickled and smoked a herring . Dutchmen are ...
... tion is paid not only to ichthyology , but to all the economical methods of preparing fish . If it is to Frenchmen that is due the method of preparing champagne , it is a Dutchman who first pickled and smoked a herring . Dutchmen are ...
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