 | 1812 - 540 pàgines
...contrast to that which groaned under the tyranny of Djezzar. " As the traveller descends towards Napolose, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants:" and in the neighbouring country the cultivation was... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 428 pàgines
...Land finer llian the view of Napolose, from the heights around it. As the traveller descends toward it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in making soap; but the... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pàgines
...Holy Land finer than the view of Napolose from the heights around it. As the traveller descends toward it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in making soap ; but the... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, John Agg - 1817 - 114 pàgines
...Acre. There i» nothing in the Holy Land finer than the view of Napolose, from the heights around it.. As the traveller descends towards it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the mnst delightful and fragrant bowers; half concealed by rich gardens, and by stately trees collected... | |
 | Edinburgh gazetteer - 1822 - 802 pàgines
...there is nothing in the Holy Land finer than the view of Naplous, from the heights around it. As tile traveller descends towards it from the hills, it appears...into groves, all around the bold and beautiful valley on which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1823 - 490 pàgines
...heights around suterf-the it. As the traveller descends towards it from Country. ^ ^-jj^ -fc appear3 luxuriantly, embosomed in the most delightful and...the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to flourish among its inhabitants. Their principal employment is in making soap ; but the... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 pàgines
...and Mount Gerizim. When viewed from the heights, it makes a very picturesque appearance, and seems luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful and fragrant bowers, half concealed by rich gardens and stately trees. It was anciently called Sichem, Schechem, Sychar, and afterwards Neapolis, and is frequently... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 398 pàgines
...nothing in the Holy Land finer," he affirms, " than the view of Napolose from the heights around it. As the traveller descends towards it from the hills,...trees collected into groves all around the bold and • Dent. xi. 29; xxvii. 12, 13. Jofh. viii. 33. beautiful valley in which it stands." " Within the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pàgines
...wet with the dews of Thabor and of Hermon.' (p. 4'J6.) 'As the traveller descends towards Xapolose, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful...rich gardens, and by stately trees collected into gro\es, all around the bold and beautiful valley in which it stands. Trade seems to nourish among its... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1830 - 176 pàgines
...Geddin, abounding with olives, almonds, peaches, apricots, and figs; Napolose,the ancient Sychem, ' luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful and fragrant...half concealed by rich gardens and by stately trees ;' the vale of Zabulon ; rich forests on the mountains of Gilead, though the plains beneath be covered... | |
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There is nothing in the Holy Land finer than the view of Napolose, from the heights around it. As the traveller descends towards it from the hills, it appears luxuriantly embosomed in the most delightful and fragrant bowers ; half concealed by rich gardens,... 
