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 40
... hundred feet above the sea . Thence it falls rapidly down toward the roadstead on the north by abrupt , irregular , and winding terraces . It is this feature that imparts such variety and beauty to the environs of Beirût . The ...
... hundred feet above the sea . Thence it falls rapidly down toward the roadstead on the north by abrupt , irregular , and winding terraces . It is this feature that imparts such variety and beauty to the environs of Beirût . The ...
Pàgina 42
... hundred and fifty feet , according to position . After all that can be said , or even surmised , the student of our city's ancient story is surprised and disappointed to find her origin enveloped in such utter obscurity , and sighs ...
... hundred and fifty feet , according to position . After all that can be said , or even surmised , the student of our city's ancient story is surprised and disappointed to find her origin enveloped in such utter obscurity , and sighs ...
Pàgina 45
... hundred years of Frank rule on this coast , it was several times captured and recaptured by Saracen and Christian . Since the close of the thirteenth century , few signal events have happened to vary the monotony of her story . But we ...
... hundred years of Frank rule on this coast , it was several times captured and recaptured by Saracen and Christian . Since the close of the thirteenth century , few signal events have happened to vary the monotony of her story . But we ...
Pàgina 47
... hundred feet , in a direction 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 ...
... hundred feet , in a direction 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 ...
Pàgina 61
... hundred and fifty - seven ; the breadth from eighty to one hundred 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 ...
... hundred and fifty - seven ; the breadth from eighty to one hundred 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 ...
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 |
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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...