Meditations in Bible Lands (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Meditations in Bible LandsThe ancient world, especially the lands of the Bible. A few years ago the way Opened for me to go, and knowing that I should probably never get another chance to visit the historic scenes of the Old World, I determined to see all that I could which would be of value to me in my studies. 'we spent nearly six months on the trip, visiting Scotland, England, Bel gium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, Greece. Constantinople, Smyrna, Palestine and Egypt. The modern scenes in these places we paid little attention to. But spent our time on the points of historic interest. The student of historv who tries to see in his foreign travel as much as pos sible with limited means, finds that six months of such effort is hard work, both physically and men tally, and he is extremely glad when it 'is over and his face is turned toward his native shore. The ex cessive use of the singular number of the pronoun of the first person, must not be taken as egotism on the part of the writer. But rather as a desire to avoid that false modesty which confuses the mind by the indiscriminate and untruthful use of the edi torial we. The illustrations in the book are nearly all taken from post-cards which were pur.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.