Notes of a Clerical Furlough, Spent Chiefly in the Holy Land. With a Sketch of the Voyage Out1859 |
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... scene with the sacred history which it so vividly recalls , to make the reader participate in the delightful conviction which , at every step , was forced more irresistibly upon his own mind , that the Bible history is , and must be ...
... scene with the sacred history which it so vividly recalls , to make the reader participate in the delightful conviction which , at every step , was forced more irresistibly upon his own mind , that the Bible history is , and must be ...
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... scene which was here exhibited . Driven into this continually narrowing space the sea was all lashed into sheets of foam , over which the yacht , with only her stay and top sails set , rushed along at twelve or thirteen knots an hour ...
... scene which was here exhibited . Driven into this continually narrowing space the sea was all lashed into sheets of foam , over which the yacht , with only her stay and top sails set , rushed along at twelve or thirteen knots an hour ...
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... scene was most exciting . Fortunately the anchors thrown out brought up the runaway just as she was getting foul of the emigrant ship . The man - of - warsmen clus- tered like bees along the yards ; hatchets were busily plied : steam ...
... scene was most exciting . Fortunately the anchors thrown out brought up the runaway just as she was getting foul of the emigrant ship . The man - of - warsmen clus- tered like bees along the yards ; hatchets were busily plied : steam ...
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... scene of the crowning victory and glorious death of the heroic Nelson . And on the morning of Saturday the 28th , about nine o'clock , we dropped our anchor beneath the Rock of Gibraltar . We had been much retarded during the previous ...
... scene of the crowning victory and glorious death of the heroic Nelson . And on the morning of Saturday the 28th , about nine o'clock , we dropped our anchor beneath the Rock of Gibraltar . We had been much retarded during the previous ...
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... scene around us . The light feluccas , with their triangular sails dashing in and out as we approached the mole ; the endless varieties of costume when we reached it ; the Babel of strange tongues ; the pannier - laden donkeys ; the ...
... scene around us . The light feluccas , with their triangular sails dashing in and out as we approached the mole ; the endless varieties of costume when we reached it ; the Babel of strange tongues ; the pannier - laden donkeys ; the ...
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