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 47
... hills southward , past the Khan es Shîâhh , and thence westward to the vicinity of Beirût , and the water was distributed by many pipes to va- rious parts of the city . As the plain west of Es Shîâhh is very low , the canal had to be ...
... hills southward , past the Khan es Shîâhh , and thence westward to the vicinity of Beirût , and the water was distributed by many pipes to va- rious parts of the city . As the plain west of Es Shîâhh is very low , the canal had to be ...
Pàgina 70
... hills , and climbing their ascend- ing terraces , is perfectly charming ; and it speaks of peace and plenty , food and gladness . The olive - tree and its fruit make the face of man to shine in more senses than one . To a stranger it is ...
... hills , and climbing their ascend- ing terraces , is perfectly charming ; and it speaks of peace and plenty , food and gladness . The olive - tree and its fruit make the face of man to shine in more senses than one . To a stranger it is ...
Pàgina 74
... hills of Jebel- el - ' Alâh , above Antioch , covered with these groves , although no one had paid attention to them for half a century . the olive bore every year , its value would be incalculable ; but , like most other trees , it ...
... hills of Jebel- el - ' Alâh , above Antioch , covered with these groves , although no one had paid attention to them for half a century . the olive bore every year , its value would be incalculable ; but , like most other trees , it ...
Pàgina 79
... hill itself , however , speaks of remote antiquity . But by far the most remark- able relics of past ages are those sarcophagi on the side of the mountain . Their number is surprising , since for ages the inhabitants have been breaking ...
... hill itself , however , speaks of remote antiquity . But by far the most remark- able relics of past ages are those sarcophagi on the side of the mountain . Their number is surprising , since for ages the inhabitants have been breaking ...
Pàgina 80
... hill marks the spot where these mighty revelers met and feasted . However that may be , we must now leave it . An hour's easy , or , rather , uneasy ride through the deep sand of the shore , will bring us to our tent on the green bank ...
... hill marks the spot where these mighty revelers met and feasted . However that may be , we must now leave it . An hour's easy , or , rather , uneasy ride through the deep sand of the shore , will bring us to our tent on the green bank ...
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...