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Common terms and phrases12mo Cloth American Arabic Arabic language baby Bible BOSTON BOY IN PALESTINE cave celebration CHAPTER Christ Christian church coffee Copts Dead Sea dhurf donkey door Egypt El-Masharif enter estine father flowers gate GEORGE DEMETRIOS girls grapes Greek grinding ground hill hole Holy Land Holy Sepulchre Illustrated Jerusalem Jews Joan of Arc Kaleel language LEE & SHEPARD lesson live LOTHROP miles Mohammedan Moslems mosque Mosque of Omar mother Mount of Olives mountain Mousa nation never olive oil olive trees peasants play postpaid priests proverb Ram Allah ready road rock says School in Palestine Shiahs side sing stick stone story Syriacs teacher thing thou tiger to-day tomb tongue tribe Turkey Turkish usually valley village vineyards wheat wolf women Young Turks Popular passagesPage 132 - Who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge? Last came, and last did go. The pilot of the Galilean lake, Two massy keys he bore of metals twain, (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain) He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake: How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their belly's sake Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Page 133 - That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Page 18 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth ; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace... Page 132 - Last came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean lake ; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain... Page 133 - Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks Page 155 - Patch" was the badge of a Tory organization, and a J. loyal patriot boy, Donald Bastien, is dismayed at learning that his uncle, with whom he is a "bound boy," is secretly connected with this treacherous band. Thrilling scenes follow in which a faithful Indian figures prominently, and there is a vivid presentation of the school and home life as well as the public affairs of those times. " A book that will be most valuable to the library of the young boy."— Provi deuce News. Page 133 - Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have... Page 155 - Cloth $1.25 •T»HIS book, which will tend directly toward ( J. the making of patriotism in young Americans, | contains some twenty brief, clever and attractive sketches of famous men and women in American history, among them Father Marquette, Anne Hutchinson, Israel Putnam, Molly Pitcher, Paul Jones, Dolly Madison, Daniel Boone, etc. Mrs. Page 95 - ... remain ; an effect, at once, of their local position, and, as many believe, the fulfilment of prophecy; and although a few of the frontier cities of Arabia have been at times temporarily subjected by the surrounding nations, Arabia, as a country, is tbe only land in all antiquity that never bowed to the yoke of a foreign conqueror. Page 155 - Cloth $1.25 ris a book for every library, a book for adults, and a book for • the young. Perhaps no other book yet written sets the great cost of freedom so clearly before the young, consequently is such a spur to patriotism. " It can unqualifiedly be commended as a book for youthful readers ; its great wealth of illustrations adding to its value. Bibliographic information
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