Familiar Allusions: a Hand-Book of Miscellaneous Information
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See Cax- ONGATE. But neither the ignominious procession up the High Street, nor the near view of death, had power to disturb the gentle and majestic patience of Argyle. Macaulay. Highland Music. A picture by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873). In the National Gallery, London. Highland Shepherd's Home. A picture by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), the most celebrated modern painter of animals. Hilda's Tower. See Torke deli.-\ SCIMIA. Hills of Eome. See Seven Hills [of Rome]. Hinnom. A valley near Jer...usa- lem, Palestine, beginning on the. west side of the city. It is re- ferred to in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Its present name is Wady Jehennam. Hippicus. See Tower of David. Hippolitus. See Martyrdom of St. Hippolitus. Hiram's Tomb. A remarkable and quite perfect sepulchral monument in Northern Pales- tine, not far from ancient Tyre, and believed, not without good reason, to be the mausoleum of Hiram, the friend and ally of HIS 229 HOIi Solomon. It is a colossal sarco- phagus with a cover, and rests upou a luassive pedestal.
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