The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land, Volum 1Harper & Brothers, 1859 - 1174 pàgines |
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Pàgina 19
... nearly all parts of the country . Their total disappearance can easily be ex- plained . When the wild Arabs of the Mohammedan des- olation became masters , wheeled vehicles immediately sunk into neglect , and even contempt . Accustomed ...
... nearly all parts of the country . Their total disappearance can easily be ex- plained . When the wild Arabs of the Mohammedan des- olation became masters , wheeled vehicles immediately sunk into neglect , and even contempt . Accustomed ...
Pàgina 30
... nearly every public transaction took place at or near the city gates . Bei- rût has burst her shell by the force of sudden expansion , and will soon have neither wall nor gates ; but nearly every other city in Syria and Palestine is ...
... nearly every public transaction took place at or near the city gates . Bei- rût has burst her shell by the force of sudden expansion , and will soon have neither wall nor gates ; but nearly every other city in Syria and Palestine is ...
Pàgina 42
... nearly all the She- mitic dialects . Beirût would then be the city of wells , and such it pre - eminently is . Almost every house has one . They vary in depth from twenty to one hundred and fifty feet , according to position . After all ...
... nearly all the She- mitic dialects . Beirût would then be the city of wells , and such it pre - eminently is . Almost every house has one . They vary in depth from twenty to one hundred and fifty feet , according to position . After all ...
Pàgina 47
... nearly west , where it was carried over the river of Beirût on a series of lofty arches . The highest tier numbers twenty - five , and the canal upon them was one hundred and sixty feet above the bed of the river . The next tier below ...
... nearly west , where it was carried over the river of Beirût on a series of lofty arches . The highest tier numbers twenty - five , and the canal upon them was one hundred and sixty feet above the bed of the river . The next tier below ...
Pàgina 61
... and forty ; and the height on the lower side nearly two hund- red feet . These figures may be rather large ; but , without any exaggeration , it is a grand and impressive natural cu- riosity . Let me now inform you , for your satisfaction ,
... and forty ; and the height on the lower side nearly two hund- red feet . These figures may be rather large ; but , without any exaggeration , it is a grand and impressive natural cu- riosity . Let me now inform you , for your satisfaction ,
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Acre ancient antiquity Arabs Baal-gad 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 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 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 383 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
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 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 257 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Pàgina 32 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Pàgina 214 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Pàgina 387 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Pàgina 327 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand : for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
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.