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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... half of Lebanon look- ed like a huge snow - bank drifted up against the sky . Be- neath my feet rolled the sparkling seas of Cilicia and Pam- phylia , over which Paul sailed on his way to Rome , while far beyond , the glaciers of Taurus ...
... half of Lebanon look- ed like a huge snow - bank drifted up against the sky . Be- neath my feet rolled the sparkling seas of Cilicia and Pam- phylia , over which Paul sailed on his way to Rome , while far beyond , the glaciers of Taurus ...
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... half a ton of green pods . The kharûb is often called St. John's Bread , and also Locust - tree , from a mistaken idea about the food of the Baptist in the wilderness . It is the Ceratonia siliqua of Linnæus . That noble tree before us ...
... half a ton of green pods . The kharûb is often called St. John's Bread , and also Locust - tree , from a mistaken idea about the food of the Baptist in the wilderness . It is the Ceratonia siliqua of Linnæus . That noble tree before us ...
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... half the city . No matter ; I suppose , like other confessors , he keeps dark , and may be trusted . Still , this letter - writing would not be a very thriving business in our country . 1 How every circumstance and incident carries one ...
... half the city . No matter ; I suppose , like other confessors , he keeps dark , and may be trusted . Still , this letter - writing would not be a very thriving business in our country . 1 How every circumstance and incident carries one ...
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... half revealed , now quite concealed by crowding mulberry and parasol China trees , and waving festoons of vines and cunning creepers of many colors - this , this is Beirût , with the glorious Mediterranean all around , and ships and ...
... half revealed , now quite concealed by crowding mulberry and parasol China trees , and waving festoons of vines and cunning creepers of many colors - this , this is Beirût , with the glorious Mediterranean all around , and ships and ...
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... half a day if they found it hanging in a place to suit them . They are ex- tremely pertinacious in asserting their right of possession , and have not the least reverence for any place or thing . David alludes to these characteristics of ...
... half a day if they found it hanging in a place to suit them . They are ex- tremely pertinacious in asserting their right of possession , and have not the least reverence for any place or thing . David alludes to these characteristics of ...
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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
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Page 438 - 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.
Page 425 - 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...
Page 508 - 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.
Page 422 - 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.
Page 379 - 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...
Page 492 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Page 441 - 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.
Page 438 - 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.
Page 447 - 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.
Page 526 - Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish...