This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... hungry, and lame, to the temple of your idol--the idol you have worshiped in secret all your life--only to find that temple a miserable ruin, and your idol taken away! You are doing this continually in the Holy Land, and in the course of time you get used to doing it, and expect to do it again and again; but, for all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ... hungry, and lame, to the temple of your idol--the idol you have worshiped in secret all your life--only to find that temple a miserable ruin, and your idol taken away! You are doing this continually in the Holy Land, and in the course of time you get used to doing it, and expect to do it again and again; but, for all that, it is none the less bitterly disappointing. Therefore, when I came to the Sea of Galilee, where the golden house of Herod once stood, steeped to the eaves thereof in voluptuous vice, I learned that the fleas were so many and so manly, a proverb has gone abroad to the effect that the king of fleas lives at Tiberias. This is the very first impression one receives as he sits down by the shore of the sea to collect his thoughts a little, and to muse over the past. But the mood passes; the hills sleep in the afternoon sunshine; a lazy sail drifts in the middle distance--one of the clumsy crafts in which the fishermen venture when the air is dead, and the water perfectly level. They draw no miraculous draughts nowadays, those Galileans; and when the gale plunges headlong into this deep valley--we are six hundred feet below the level of the Mediterranean--and ploughs up the holy sea ruthlessly, there is no voice to still it. Alas! even if there were, ninety-nine hundredths of those who chanced to hear it, and behold the sea crouching at the sound of it, would consider it a very happy coincidence. Blue Galilee is but sixteen and one-half miles in length, and from four to seven and one-half in breadth; but it has floated fleets in its day, and can do it again if necessary. The primal flush of its glory has faded; its proud city is no more; the gardens, groves, terraces, and gilded domes live only in a memory almost as old as the hills. Coming to ...
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