About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, TimgadJohn Lane, 1912 - 305 páginas |
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Abd-el-Kader admirable Algeria Algiers ancient appear Arab arches army Aurès Aurès mountains Barbary Batna beauty Berbers Biskra Bougie Bugeaud building built Byzantine café camel caravan century charm Cherchel Christian Cirta civilization colony colour columns conquerors conquest Constantine Crown 8vo cultivation Daily decoration delightful desert Donatists DOORWAY Empire English Europe European feet France French garden garrison gorge hills holy houses inhabitants inscriptions interest Jews Khabyle Khabylia King land literary Mansoura marble matter Mediterranean ment mihrab miles modern Mohammedan Moorish Morning Morocco mosque motor-car mountain Mozabites native nature North Africa novel oasis Oran Pall Mall Pall Mall Gazette pass perhaps pleasant Pompeii race railway religion river road Rome ruins Sahara Sétif Sidi Okba Spain Spanish stone story streets style suggest Sultan Tebessa Timgad tion Tipasa Tlemçen to-day town traveller trees UNIV Vandal VIMU walls women Yakoub
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Página 4 - Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Página 298 - FRANCE'S ONLY contribution to an English periodical appeared in THE YELLOW BOOK, vol. v., April 1895, together with the first important English appreciation of his work from the pen of the Hon. Maurice Baring, it is peculiarly appropriate that the English edition of his works should be issued from the Bodley Head. ORDER FORM.
Página 298 - At all times he is the unrelenting foe of superstition and hypocrisy. Of himself he once modestly said : " You will find in my writings perfect sincerity (lying demands a talent I do not possess), much indulgence, and some natural affection for the beautiful and good.
Página 80 - And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
Página 104 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
Página 217 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Página 298 - He is in turn — like his own Choulette in THE RED LILY— saintly and Rabelaisian, yet without incongruity.
Página 300 - In the description of Washington life Mrs. Atherton shows not only a very considerable knowledge of externals, but also an insight into the underlying political issues that is remarkable." Outlook : — " The novel has genuine historical value.
Página 306 - One can confidently promise the reader of this skilfully treated and unconventional novel that he will not find a page of it dull. It is one that will be not only read but remembered.