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Page 478 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 469 - Pagan has been dead many a day ; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.
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| Title | The Papal Drama: A Historical Essay |
| Author | Thomas Hornblower Gill |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 9, 2007 |
| Length | 483 pages |
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