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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... seem to suggest and even require them ; but something must be left out , and , whether right or wrong , the author thought it most in accordance with the specific de- sign of his work to omit such " meditations . " And yet it is obvious ...
... seem to suggest and even require them ; but something must be left out , and , whether right or wrong , the author thought it most in accordance with the specific de- sign of his work to omit such " meditations . " And yet it is obvious ...
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... seems to look quite to the bottom of heaven's profoundest azure , " where the everlasting stars abide ; " and how sharp- ly defined is every rock and ravine , and tree and house on lofty Lebanon . That virgin snow on its summit is ...
... seems to look quite to the bottom of heaven's profoundest azure , " where the everlasting stars abide ; " and how sharp- ly defined is every rock and ravine , and tree and house on lofty Lebanon . That virgin snow on its summit is ...
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... seems to be derived from the Hebrew name for sycamore , and I know no reason why their identity should be questioned . As to the mul- berry , it is yet to be shown that it was then known in Pal- estine , although our translators have ...
... seems to be derived from the Hebrew name for sycamore , and I know no reason why their identity should be questioned . As to the mul- berry , it is yet to be shown that it was then known in Pal- estine , although our translators have ...
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... seem to be wholly absorbed in their devotions , and manifest a power of isolation and abstraction quite sur- prising . That is the result of habit and education ; small chil- dren imitate it to perfection . There is certainly an air of ...
... seem to be wholly absorbed in their devotions , and manifest a power of isolation and abstraction quite sur- prising . That is the result of habit and education ; small chil- dren imitate it to perfection . There is certainly an air of ...
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... seems Biblical enough . But here comes a woman , veiled from head to foot , and takes 1 Psalm xxiv . 7 . Luke xiii . 24 , 25 , and Matt . vii . 13 . LETTER - WRITER . 33 LETTER - WRITER . her 32 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
... seems Biblical enough . But here comes a woman , veiled from head to foot , and takes 1 Psalm xxiv . 7 . Luke xiii . 24 , 25 , and Matt . vii . 13 . LETTER - WRITER . 33 LETTER - WRITER . her 32 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
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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...