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Title: Bright days in sunny lands
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Plainfield, N.J., Honeyman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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as a silhouetteagainst the horizon. The trained eye will take in onthe nearer side of the Tiber the buildings which formthe Ghetto, or Jews quarter. The ancestors of theseJews were brought to that precise spot as slaves byPompey the Great, when he captured Jerusalem anddared to penetrate into the Holy of Holies. It is, to-day, the only thoroughly disagreeable place in Rome.On the right of this is the Farnese Palace, built of trav-ertine quarried from the Colosseum and long the res-idence of the exiled Bourbon kings. That church, alittle nearer, S. Andrea della Valle, was on the siteof Pompeys Theatre, where great Caesar lost his lifeby those cowardly assassins. Nearer still rises thePantheon, the site of the temple of all the gods in thedays of Augustus Caesar, later a Temple of Justice inHadrians time, the oldest unruined building in thecity, the burial place of Raphael, Victor Emmanueland King Humbert, the grandest type of an antiquetemple—simple, solemn, audacious, splendid. The.
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Augustus Ccesar, in Boyhood. IN THE ETERNAL CITY 185 column of Marcus Aurelius stands there in the PiazzaColonna, tall and majestic, where it has stood and de-fied the revolutions and struggles of full seventeenhundred years. Down at our feet is the Porta del Pop-olo, the north gate of Rome, through which monks,saints, bishops, priests, statesmen, kings and victo-rious armies have gone out toward Gaul and the greatnorth country, when Rome was pushing her con-quests and, later, her religion toward France andEngland and the countries of the Huns and Visigoths.Until the iron horse came to the city all travelers fromthe north entered through that gate. And can you notnow almost see Luther there, just within the arch, be-fofe the obelisk which nearly marks the site of Nerostomb, crying out as he bowed to the ground: I sa-lute thee, O holy Rome; Rome, venerable through theblood and the tombs of the martyrs! and then, on alater day, leaving through that same portal, a changedman because of t

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