The Land and the Book, Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy LandHarper, 1859 |
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Pàgina v
... Bible , but selects indiscriminately from all , such passages as contain the themes he desires to eluci- date . The field is ample , and it is abundantly rich in sub- jects for scenic and pictorial description . Whether he has succeeded ...
... Bible , but selects indiscriminately from all , such passages as contain the themes he desires to eluci- date . The field is ample , and it is abundantly rich in sub- jects for scenic and pictorial description . Whether he has succeeded ...
Pàgina vi
... Bible , and to the living manners and customs of the East which illustrate that blessed book . Here we need the actual ob- server , not the distant and secluded student . To describe these things , and such as these , one must have seen ...
... Bible , and to the living manners and customs of the East which illustrate that blessed book . Here we need the actual ob- server , not the distant and secluded student . To describe these things , and such as these , one must have seen ...
Pàgina vii
... Bible which meet the pilgrim at every turn in his pathway . Broken columns , and prostrate temples , and cities in ruin , must bear testimo- ny to the inspiration of prophecy ; and ravens and spar- rows , and cedars and brambles , and ...
... Bible which meet the pilgrim at every turn in his pathway . Broken columns , and prostrate temples , and cities in ruin , must bear testimo- ny to the inspiration of prophecy ; and ravens and spar- rows , and cedars and brambles , and ...
Pàgina viii
... Bible which refer to such matters in their appropriate place and time ; and thus he does not speak of harvest in winter , nor of the vintage in spring , nor of rains and storms in summer , but of all in the seasons when they actually ...
... Bible which refer to such matters in their appropriate place and time ; and thus he does not speak of harvest in winter , nor of the vintage in spring , nor of rains and storms in summer , but of all in the seasons when they actually ...
Pàgina xvi
... Bible must become familiar to me as child- hood's home . There are lessons in every thing around me , I feel quite sure , and teachers on every side , did I but know their language . You are to be my dragoman to interpret this unknown ...
... Bible must become familiar to me as child- hood's home . There are lessons in every thing around me , I feel quite sure , and teachers on every side , did I but know their language . You are to be my dragoman to interpret this unknown ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and ... W. M. Thomson Visualització completa - 1869 |
The Land and the Book: Or Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the ..., Volum 1 William McClure Thomson Visualització completa - 1881 |
The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the ..., Volum 1 William McClure Thomson Visualització completa - 1871 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Acre ancient antiquity Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Beirût Bible birds called Capernaum castle charms Christian cliffs coast columns custom doubt Druses east entire eyes fact farther flocks friends gate Gennesaret Hamath Hasbany Hazor head Hebrew Hermon hills hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Jabin Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kings Kudes Kurn ladies lake land Lebanon look Lord mentioned Metawelies miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali never night olive once Oriental Palestine pass Phoenicians plain plow poor probably prophet ravine region Rehob ride river road rock round ruins Safed sarcophagi says seen Sheikh shepherd shore side Sidon Solomon stone suppose Syria tarbush Tell temple tent terebinth thee thing thorns thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs trees tribes Tyre unto vast village wady wall whole wild wind Zaanaim
Passatges populars
Pàgina 436 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Pàgina 423 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly...
Pàgina 506 - And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men ; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha. he revived, and stood up on his feet.
Pàgina 420 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord, against the mighty.
Pàgina 377 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire and hail; snow and vapours: stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Pàgina 490 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Pàgina 439 - Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils ; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Pàgina 436 - She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
Pàgina 445 - Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
Pàgina 524 - Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish...