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...was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persia, or Cyprus had added lustre to the Persian monarchy, or Nebuchadnezzar...captivity, she had already risen to greatness, if not glory,' wrote Rev. MA Sherring, a Christian missionary to Benares in the nineteenth century. The city...

...for supremacy, when Tyre was planting her colonies, when Athens was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persia,...she had already risen to greatness, if not to glory . . . While many cities and nations have fallen into decay and perished, her sun has never gone down;...

...for supremacy, when Tyre was planting her colonies, when Athens was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persia,...captivity, she had already risen to greatness, if not to glory.1 On the antiquity of Banaras, which he visited in his journey around the world, Mark Twain quipped,...

...for supremacy, when Tyre was planting her colonies, when Athens was growing in strength, before Rome had become known, or Greece had contended with Persia,...Nebuchadnezzar had captured Jerusalem and the inhabitants of Judea had been carried into captivity, she had already risen to greatness, if not to glory. We will...