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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... tion , whose office is merely to introduce what needs to be introduced , but a true and loving brother , who thus an- nounces his arrival and the object of his visit to the Holy Land : " Ras Beirat , January 20th , 1857 . " MY DEAR W ...
... tion , whose office is merely to introduce what needs to be introduced , but a true and loving brother , who thus an- nounces his arrival and the object of his visit to the Holy Land : " Ras Beirat , January 20th , 1857 . " MY DEAR W ...
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... tion , whose office is merely to introduce what needs to be introduced , but a true and loving brother , who thus an- nounces his arrival and the object of his visit to the Holy Land : " Ras Beirat , January 20th , 1857 . " MY DEAR W ...
... tion , whose office is merely to introduce what needs to be introduced , but a true and loving brother , who thus an- nounces his arrival and the object of his visit to the Holy Land : " Ras Beirat , January 20th , 1857 . " MY DEAR W ...
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... tion . But it is time we turn our steps homeward . The muezzin calls to sunset prayers from this tall minaret , and dinner will be waiting . As in ancient times , men now eat when the day's work is done . Seeing is believing , " says ...
... tion . But it is time we turn our steps homeward . The muezzin calls to sunset prayers from this tall minaret , and dinner will be waiting . As in ancient times , men now eat when the day's work is done . Seeing is believing , " says ...
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... tion of a former attempt to protect the quay of Beirût , when these columns were gathered from the ruins of the city and cast into the sea for that purpose . It is otherwise difficult to account for their being there at all . There is a ...
... tion of a former attempt to protect the quay of Beirût , when these columns were gathered from the ruins of the city and cast into the sea for that purpose . It is otherwise difficult to account for their being there at all . There is a ...
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... tion , and nestle just where you don't want them . They stop up your stove and water pipes with their rubbish , build in the windows and under the beams of the roof , and would stuff your hat full of stubble in half a day if they found ...
... tion , and nestle just where you don't want them . They stop up your stove and water pipes with their rubbish , build in the windows and under the beams of the roof , and would stuff your hat full of stubble in half a day if they found ...
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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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