Palaces and Courts of the ExpositionCalifornia Book Company, 1915 - 116 pages |
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A. A. Weinmann acacias Aisle Aitken Albert Jaegers architecture Arts Palace Avenue of Palms beautiful blue burnt orange California colonnades color Column of Progress Court of Flowers Court of Palms cypresses daffodils decorative Dorado earth eucalyptus Exposition feet figure Four Seasons Frank Brangwyn front Gateway Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney golden half dome harvest Italian Towers James Earle Fraser Jules Guerin Kelham of San Leo Lentelli look Machinery Palace Meade and White Monterey cypresses murals niches notice Oriental Palace of Education Palace of Food Palace of Liberal Palace of Mines Palace of Varied PALACES AND COURTS Panama Canal Panel pastel pink Pool portal Praise ye primitive Renaissance represent Rising Sun San Francisco Sculpture seen Setting Sun shores Solon Borglum South Gardens Spanish Spirit stand Stirling Calder suggested symbol thru tion Tower of Jewels travertine trees Triumphal Arch Universe Varied Industries W. B. Faville waters wings woman York
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Page 13 - PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD -*- from the heavens : praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels : praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : praise him, all ye stars of light. Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. Let them praise the name of the LORD : for he commanded, and they were created.
Page 13 - Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 13 - Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word : Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars : Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Page 62 - Facing west from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my Western sea, the circle almost circled; For starting westward from Hindustan, from the vales of Kashmere, From Asia, from the north, from the God, the sage, and the hero, From the south, from the flowery peninsulas and the spice islands, Long having...
Page 71 - They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who find pleasure in it.
Page 107 - Lastly, came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill...
Page 107 - So forth issew'd the Seasons of the yeare. First, lusty Spring, all dight in leaves of flowres That freshly budded and new bloosmes did beare, (In which a thousand birds had built their bowres...
Page 13 - Both young men, and maidens; old men and children: let them praise the name of the Lord: For his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven. He also exalteth the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him. Praise ye the Lord.
Page 63 - I therefore repeat, that it is absolutely indispensable for the United States to effect a passage from the Mexican Gulf to the Pacific Ocean ; and I am certain that they will do it.
Page 13 - Let them praise the name of the Lord : for he commanded, and they were created. He hath also established them for ever and ever...
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All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International ... Robert W. Rydell Limited preview - 1987 |