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All around a palette (1878)

Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams), 1850-1922, Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903. ill, Lockwood, Brooks, and Company. pbl, Welch, Bigelow & Co. prt · Boston : Lockwood, Brooks, and Co. · leaf 185

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from paintings what beautiful surroundings thesechildren had. The next time you turn over photo-graphs or engravings from the paintings of Coomansor Alma Tadema, imagine that you are looking atDomitilla, or at some of her friends. Domitillas nurse, Judith, was a Jewess.She was a slave that… … orange-trees on one of the hills to the east of Vesu-vius. Judith was a Christian, and she interested thechildren not only in the Hebrew legends of the OldTestament, but also in Christ and his blessed mission. NEAPOLITAN ORANGES. 171 What she said must have seemed fresher and morerealto the…

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