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Identifier: zigzagjourneysin03butt (find matches)
Title: Zigzag journeys in northwest lands. The Rhine to the Arctic
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he may be, the giganticchurch is always in view. He beholds it towering-over all. Its history is that ofGermany. It grew with the German empire,and has shared all its triumphs and reverses. It was founded by Clovis.It has been imperilled by lightning some fifty times, and has as oftenrepelled the shocks of war. In the tenth century it was burned;in the eleventh, plundered; and five years after it was nearly demol-ished by lightning. It was after the last calamity that the present structure was begun.At one time a hundred thousand men were employed upon it: can wewonder that it is colossal ? The giant grew. In 1140, 1150, and 1176 it was partly burned,but it rose from the flames always more great, lofty, and splendid. Indulgences were offered to donors and workmen ; to contributorsof all kinds. Men earned, or thought they earned, their salvation byadding their mites to the spreading magnificence. In 1303 it is saidthat all the peasants of Alsace might be seen drawing stone into Stras-
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STRASBURG CATHEDRAL. EVENING THE THIRD. IO7 burs for the cathedral. Master builder succeeded master builder,—died, — but the great work went on. In the French Revolution theJacobins tore from the cathedral the statues of two hundred and thirtysaints; but it was still a city of saints in stone and marble. In 1870,in the Franco-Prussian war, its roof was perforated with shells, and on

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