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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... least not necesarily so , nor in all cases . I would be glad to believe there was ordinarily any corresponding moral and religious feeling connected with this exterior manifestation of devotion . The Moslems them- selves , however ...
... least not necesarily so , nor in all cases . I would be glad to believe there was ordinarily any corresponding moral and religious feeling connected with this exterior manifestation of devotion . The Moslems them- selves , however ...
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... least possible , and without resorting to su- pernatural interference . A little manoeuvring , or a little money , could set either real or spurious Jews at work in the exact way to bring on the catastrophe . But let that pass ; Beirût ...
... least possible , and without resorting to su- pernatural interference . A little manoeuvring , or a little money , could set either real or spurious Jews at work in the exact way to bring on the catastrophe . But let that pass ; Beirût ...
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... least two thousand feet above the sea . FOUNTAIN AT BEIRUT . January 26th . The roofs of these houses afford such a delightful prom- enade , and the prospect is so beautiful , that I can scarcely keep away from them , day or night . So ...
... least two thousand feet above the sea . FOUNTAIN AT BEIRUT . January 26th . The roofs of these houses afford such a delightful prom- enade , and the prospect is so beautiful , that I can scarcely keep away from them , day or night . So ...
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... pertinacious in asserting their right of possession , and have not the least reverence for any place or thing . David alludes to these characteristics of the sparrow in the 84th Psalm , when he complains that they had appropriated.
... pertinacious in asserting their right of possession , and have not the least reverence for any place or thing . David alludes to these characteristics of the sparrow in the 84th Psalm , when he complains that they had appropriated.
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... least , to Arab taste . The northern is the Fountain of Honey ( Niba el ' Asil ) ; the southern is the Fountain of Milk ( Niba el Lebn ) . Over the deep ravine of the latter stream , and not far from its birth , nature has thrown , or ...
... least , to Arab taste . The northern is the Fountain of Honey ( Niba el ' Asil ) ; the southern is the Fountain of Milk ( Niba el Lebn ) . Over the deep ravine of the latter stream , and not far from its birth , nature has thrown , or ...
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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 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 490 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 524 - Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish...