A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy

A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy, by Ida Pfeiffer
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VISIT TO THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, AND ITALY
By Madame Ida Pfeiffer. Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken.
PREFACE BY THE VIENNA PUBLISHER
For two centuries the princes and nations of the West were accustomed to wander towards the land of the morning. In vain was the noblest blood poured forth in streams in the effort to wrest the country of our heavenly Teacher from the grasp of the infidel; and though the Christian Europe of the present day forbears to renew a struggle which, considering the strength that has been gradually increasing for the last six hundred years, might prove an easy one, we cannot wonder that millions of the votaries of Christianity should cherish an earnest longing to wander in the paths the Redeemer has trod, and to view with ...