The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land |
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Page xvii
MY DEAR WŁ , I this morning woke to find life's long dream a beautiful reality .
For twenty years and more , as you well know , a visit to Palestine has been the
unattained object of my fondest aspirations ; and now here am í safely landed on
...
MY DEAR WŁ , I this morning woke to find life's long dream a beautiful reality .
For twenty years and more , as you well know , a visit to Palestine has been the
unattained object of my fondest aspirations ; and now here am í safely landed on
...
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For example , i Jewish matron wust on no account allow her own hair to be seen .
llence , no matter how luxuriant avd beautiful , it is carefully concealed under their
curious head - uresses ; and what appears to be hair is either silk imitation , or ...
For example , i Jewish matron wust on no account allow her own hair to be seen .
llence , no matter how luxuriant avd beautiful , it is carefully concealed under their
curious head - uresses ; and what appears to be hair is either silk imitation , or ...
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The word translated “ power ” is perhaps a mere symbolic title of the veil - Power "
: nor is the figure altogether strange or unintelligible to an Oriental . The on the
head . veil is , in fact , the beautiful lady's strength and defence . Modestly veiled ...
The word translated “ power ” is perhaps a mere symbolic title of the veil - Power "
: nor is the figure altogether strange or unintelligible to an Oriental . The on the
head . veil is , in fact , the beautiful lady's strength and defence . Modestly veiled ...
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Present condition . Antiquities . Jawry 25th . How is it that you never told me in
any of your letters that Beriût is such a Beirat . beautiful place ? I did ; but you
could not understand , and no wonder . Neither pen nor pencil can do justice to
Beirût .
Present condition . Antiquities . Jawry 25th . How is it that you never told me in
any of your letters that Beriût is such a Beirat . beautiful place ? I did ; but you
could not understand , and no wonder . Neither pen nor pencil can do justice to
Beirût .
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... beautiful , and even sublime . Good old Lebanon , with a diadem of stars
around his snowy turban , looked for all the world like some august monarch of
the universe , with his head in heaven and his feet upon the sea , and I could and
did ...
... beautiful , and even sublime . Good old Lebanon , with a diadem of stars
around his snowy turban , looked for all the world like some august monarch of
the universe , with his head in heaven and his feet upon the sea , and I could and
did ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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