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 19
... tell you that carriage - roads can not be made in Syria . But this is a mistake . They might be constructed , at a moderate expense , in nearly all parts of the country . Their total disappearance can easily be ex- plained . When the ...
... tell you that carriage - roads can not be made in Syria . But this is a mistake . They might be constructed , at a moderate expense , in nearly all parts of the country . Their total disappearance can easily be ex- plained . When the ...
Pàgina 46
... tell their own story . An ancient aqueduct has lately been discover- ed , cut through the rock , and passing beneath the city at Bab Yacob . It must either have had a more permanent supply than the present , which fails in dry weather ...
... tell their own story . An ancient aqueduct has lately been discover- ed , cut through the rock , and passing beneath the city at Bab Yacob . It must either have had a more permanent supply than the present , which fails in dry weather ...
Pàgina 59
William McClure Thomson. ANCIENT SCULPTURES . 59 sand years , have much to tell the student of man's past his- tory , could we but break the seal , and read the long roll of revelations . Those faintly - cut emblems of Sesostris , those ...
William McClure Thomson. ANCIENT SCULPTURES . 59 sand years , have much to tell the student of man's past his- tory , could we but break the seal , and read the long roll of revelations . Those faintly - cut emblems of Sesostris , those ...
Pàgina 76
... tell us that this sand has traveled long and far before it reached its present resting - place . That , in fact , its original home was in the great African desert , and , during the countless ages of the past , it has been drifted ...
... tell us that this sand has traveled long and far before it reached its present resting - place . That , in fact , its original home was in the great African desert , and , during the countless ages of the past , it has been drifted ...
Pàgina 79
... tell you , is one of those telegraphic beacons which St. Helen built along the road from Jerusalem to Constanti- nople , to convey to her royal son the very first tidings of the discovery of the true cross , for which she was then ...
... tell you , is one of those telegraphic beacons which St. Helen built along the road from Jerusalem to Constanti- nople , to convey to her royal son the very first tidings of the discovery of the true cross , for which she was then ...
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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 Amorites 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 Greek Hamath Hasbany Hazor head Hebrew Hermon hills hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Jabin Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kings Kurn ladies lake land Lebanon look Lord mentioned 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 440 - 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 510 - 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 424 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the I .n ii ii.
Pàgina 136 - And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Pàgina 17 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Pàgina 381 - 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 17 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee.
Pàgina 136 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Pàgina 427 - The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Pàgina 223 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.