Little StingsJ. W. Luce, 1907 - 161 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... Balkis , Queen of Sheba . One has only to speculate , as indeed one can scarcely abstain from doing in moments of fasci- nated leisure , upon this richly controversial sub- ject , to call to mind at once such authoritative works as ...
... Balkis , Queen of Sheba . One has only to speculate , as indeed one can scarcely abstain from doing in moments of fasci- nated leisure , upon this richly controversial sub- ject , to call to mind at once such authoritative works as ...
Pàgina vi
... Balkis , Queen of Sheba - she who was born before her time and remained to outlive her day , in whom the East and the West were met and the lioness couchant with the ewe , whose way was paved with well - intentioned errancy , for whom ...
... Balkis , Queen of Sheba - she who was born before her time and remained to outlive her day , in whom the East and the West were met and the lioness couchant with the ewe , whose way was paved with well - intentioned errancy , for whom ...
Pàgina vii
... of bearded men , and , with many innocent questions , brought them to their separate ends . La petite Balkis , as Gaston Poteau so quaintly puts it · • P. A. C. CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD . CHAPTER I. - EAST OF SUEZ vii BA OF SHEBA THE QUEEN.
... of bearded men , and , with many innocent questions , brought them to their separate ends . La petite Balkis , as Gaston Poteau so quaintly puts it · • P. A. C. CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD . CHAPTER I. - EAST OF SUEZ vii BA OF SHEBA THE QUEEN.
Pàgina ix
... BALKIS . -III - POMPS AND CIRCUMSTANCES 3 25 49 IV . - BALKIS IS WILLING · 76 V. - SOLOMON , HIRAM AND SHUSH 93 VI . - PILGRIM'S PROGRESS . 116 VII . THE YOUNG VISITOR 138 } VIII . OVER THE HOT SANDS BIBLIOGRAPHY • 171 191 ILLUSTRATIONS ...
... BALKIS . -III - POMPS AND CIRCUMSTANCES 3 25 49 IV . - BALKIS IS WILLING · 76 V. - SOLOMON , HIRAM AND SHUSH 93 VI . - PILGRIM'S PROGRESS . 116 VII . THE YOUNG VISITOR 138 } VIII . OVER THE HOT SANDS BIBLIOGRAPHY • 171 191 ILLUSTRATIONS ...
Pàgina 24
... to Salhin , to grow up beside her four little half - brothers . Such were the lineage , parentage and birth of the child who was to be known in years to come as Balkis , Queen of Sheba . F S hat ise , ant P of CHAPTER II 24 John Held.
... to Salhin , to grow up beside her four little half - brothers . Such were the lineage , parentage and birth of the child who was to be known in years to come as Balkis , Queen of Sheba . F S hat ise , ant P of CHAPTER II 24 John Held.
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 169 - Hope deferred maketh the heart sick : but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Pàgina 162 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Pàgina 163 - There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Pàgina 46 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I g-alloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; "Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; "Speed!
Pàgina 172 - Every little bit, added to what you've got, makes just a little bit more.
Pàgina 171 - How much better is it to get wisdom than gold ? and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver?
Pàgina 46 - LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive ; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, " If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, One...
Pàgina 81 - I'm not quick that way, but of course, it takes all kinds of people to make a world and we can't all be brilliant.
Pàgina 161 - There is a grand temple which rests upon a single column, which column is encircled by twelve cities; every city has against its walls thirty flying buttresses, and each buttress has two women, one white and one black, that go round about it in turns. Say what that temple is called.