Word: tombs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...original of which is at the Louvre. It is Fgyptian in style and was probably made in Egypt. The inscriptions give among other things the genealogy of the king, with the addition of territory during the reign, and calls down curses on any who may dare to open the tomb...
...Mycenae was founded by a son of Zeus, and at the time of Agamemnon its glory was at its height. The two Homeric poems contain the best descriptions of Mycenae. The renowned luxury of Menelaus and Helen in Sparta did not vie with the luxury of Mycenae. In some tombs opened at Mycenae by Dr. Schlieman in 1876, were found numerous coins and gold and silver vessels of great value. One tomb containing the body of a man which had become a fossil, contained gold plate and coins which weighed 100 pounds and whose value was $25,000. Dr. Schlieman...
...next view was the Cathedral at Gloucester on the Seavern, whose walls are of the old Norman style and which the monks rebuilt from the offerings made at Edward the Second's tomb...
Passing on we come to Warwick Castle, where the tomb is situated, of Thomas Beauchamp, so famous under the Black Prince, at Poitiers and Crecy, Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, and the Earl of Warwick are also buried here...
...Phillips Brooks preached last evening in Appleton Chapel on the passage in Saint John 38, 11, where Jesus stands before the tomb of Lazarus in sorrow at the grief of Mary and Martha and the friends of their dead brother. In all the history of Jesus' life we find that he was by nature of a joyous disposition which made his moments of deep sorrow, like the one in the text, all the more intense. The mingling of joy and pain in his life is what all men should expect to find in their own lives and those of their...