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Page xvi
... but the scenes described were visited many times during the preceding quarter
of a century . These almost innumerable excursions are not imaginary , but real ;
and the results , so far as they bear on Biblical Illustration , appear in the current ...
... but the scenes described were visited many times during the preceding quarter
of a century . These almost innumerable excursions are not imaginary , but real ;
and the results , so far as they bear on Biblical Illustration , appear in the current ...
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Nor will they ever re - appear till some other race than the Arab predominates ,
and a better than the Turk governs . Even the Christian inhabitants of Lebanon ,
where good roads are most needert , have no adequate appreciation of them ,
and ...
Nor will they ever re - appear till some other race than the Arab predominates ,
and a better than the Turk governs . Even the Christian inhabitants of Lebanon ,
where good roads are most needert , have no adequate appreciation of them ,
and ...
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... no matter how luxuriant avd beautiful , it is carefully concealed under their
curious head - uresses ; and what appears ... the laws of modesty and propriety
required the women to appear in their assemblies irith their heads covered and
their ...
... no matter how luxuriant avd beautiful , it is carefully concealed under their
curious head - uresses ; and what appears ... the laws of modesty and propriety
required the women to appear in their assemblies irith their heads covered and
their ...
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Modestly veiled , she appears anywhere and everywhere in perfect safety . ... The
veil is , therefore , the virtuous woman's “ power , ” and whenshe appears in
public she ought to have this “ power on her head ; ” - in church , “ because of the
...
Modestly veiled , she appears anywhere and everywhere in perfect safety . ... The
veil is , therefore , the virtuous woman's “ power , ” and whenshe appears in
public she ought to have this “ power on her head ; ” - in church , “ because of the
...
Page 33
The whole plain is a projection seaward from the general direction of the coast ,
and along the base of the hills it is so low as to appear like an island to one
sailing up from Sidon . The surface rises gradually from the south to the
immediate ...
The whole plain is a projection seaward from the general direction of the coast ,
and along the base of the hills it is so low as to appear like an island to one
sailing up from Sidon . The surface rises gradually from the south to the
immediate ...
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| Title | The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land |
| Author | William McClure Thomson |
| Publisher | T. Nelson, 1869 |
| Original from | National Library of Israel |
| Digitized | 21 Jan 2020 |
| Length | 718 pages |
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