Instead of pomp and splendor, vast palaces and magnificent temples, of which he had before heard, he saw little better than the huts of Indians, and a parcel of people with their faces blacker than his own. Lydia: Or, Filial Piety. A Novel - Page 154by John Shebbeare - 1763Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Hezekiah Bissell - 1925 - 262 pages
...'Instead of pomp and splendor, vast palaces and magnificent temples, of which he had before heard, he saw little better than the huts of Indians, and a parcel...of people with their faces blacker than his own.' He is astonished when he learns that they are colliers just come from the mine, and asks if all the... | |
| Benjamin Hezekiah Bissell - 1925 - 256 pages
...'Instead of pomp and splendor, vast palaces and magnificent temples, of which he had before heard, he saw little better than the huts of Indians, and a parcel...of people with their faces blacker than his own.' He is astonished when he learns that they are colliers just come from the mine, and asks if all the... | |
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