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Emmaus

Town in Lehigh County, east Pennsylvania; population (1990) 11,200. It is located 8 km/5 mi south of Allentown. Founded by Moravians c. 1740, it was closed to members of other denominations from 1758–1836. The home of Rodale Press and site of the nonprofit Rodale Institute and its experimental organic farm, Emmaus is primarily residential but has some light industry.



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Bulstrode had particularly wished to have a certain picture--a "Supper at Emmaus," attributed in the catalogue to Guido; and at the last moment before the day of the sale Mr.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
He knew now quite positively that there had been no painting of landscape before Monet; and he felt a real thrill when he stood in front of Rembrandt's Disciples at Emmaus or Velasquez' Lady with the Flea-bitten Nose.
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