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 37
... standing also . I have read all my life about crooked , nar- row streets , with the gutters in the middle , and no side- walks , but I never understood till now . How are we to get past this line of loaded camels ? Well , by bowing the ...
... standing also . I have read all my life about crooked , nar- row streets , with the gutters in the middle , and no side- walks , but I never understood till now . How are we to get past this line of loaded camels ? Well , by bowing the ...
Pàgina 65
... stand here and there on the plain , like military sentinels , with feathery plumes nodding gracefully on their proud heads . The stem , tall , slender , and erect as Rectitude herself , suggests to the Arab poets many a symbol for their ...
... stand here and there on the plain , like military sentinels , with feathery plumes nodding gracefully on their proud heads . The stem , tall , slender , and erect as Rectitude herself , suggests to the Arab poets many a symbol for their ...
Pàgina 66
... stands , looking calmly down upon the world below , and patiently yielding its large clus- ters of golden fruit from generation to generation . They bring forth fruit in old age . The allusion to being planted in the house of the Lord ...
... stands , looking calmly down upon the world below , and patiently yielding its large clus- ters of golden fruit from generation to generation . They bring forth fruit in old age . The allusion to being planted in the house of the Lord ...
Pàgina 71
... standing , almost as perfect as they were twenty centuries ago , although every vestige of the groves which supplied the oil has long since disappeared . I notice that the branches of some trees have been cut off , and then grafted ...
... standing , almost as perfect as they were twenty centuries ago , although every vestige of the groves which supplied the oil has long since disappeared . I notice that the branches of some trees have been cut off , and then grafted ...
Pàgina 78
... at his feet , cling to his side , hide in his bosom , or stand out in bold relief upon his ample shoulders , giving life and animation the scene . KHULDEH - SARCOPHAGI . 79 We will now rest and 78 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
... at his feet , cling to his side , hide in his bosom , or stand out in bold relief upon his ample shoulders , giving life and animation the scene . KHULDEH - SARCOPHAGI . 79 We will now rest and 78 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
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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...