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 xvi
... kind reader , I trust that , like ourselves , you are eager to commence this tour of the Holy Land . But we must begin our preparations for it with " the garment of patience . " Horses , and mules , and tents , and canteens , and beds ...
... kind reader , I trust that , like ourselves , you are eager to commence this tour of the Holy Land . But we must begin our preparations for it with " the garment of patience . " Horses , and mules , and tents , and canteens , and beds ...
Pàgina 19
... kind or other , but am always disappointed . And will be . There is nothing of the sort in Syria ; neither is there street or road for them in any part of the land . How do you account for this ? It was not always so . We read of ...
... kind or other , but am always disappointed . And will be . There is nothing of the sort in Syria ; neither is there street or road for them in any part of the land . How do you account for this ? It was not always so . We read of ...
Pàgina 32
... kind of names now as in ancient times , generally derived from some accidental circumstance con- nected with them . One is Bab el Bahar , because it leads to the sea . That near which the tanners carry on their busi- ness is Bab el ...
... kind of names now as in ancient times , generally derived from some accidental circumstance con- nected with them . One is Bab el Bahar , because it leads to the sea . That near which the tanners carry on their busi- ness is Bab el ...
Pàgina 39
... kind ? They are sad and sombre at best , and must be particularly so at night . Already the shades of evening fall heavily along these gloomy avenues , and I see no pro- vision for lighting them . There is none ; and you observe that ...
... kind ? They are sad and sombre at best , and must be particularly so at night . Already the shades of evening fall heavily along these gloomy avenues , and I see no pro- vision for lighting them . There is none ; and you observe that ...
Pàgina 73
... kind , and , if long neglected , will revive again when the ground is dug or plowed , and begin afresh to yield as before . Vineyards forsaken die out almost im- mediately , and mulberry orchards neglected run rapidly to VOL . I .-- D ...
... kind , and , if long neglected , will revive again when the ground is dug or plowed , and begin afresh to yield as before . Vineyards forsaken die out almost im- mediately , and mulberry orchards neglected run rapidly to VOL . I .-- D ...
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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 438 - 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 425 - 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 508 - 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 422 - 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 379 - 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 492 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Pàgina 441 - 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 438 - 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 447 - 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 526 - Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish...