The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy LandT. Nelson, 1869 - 718 pages |
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Page 25
... believe there was ordinarily any corresponding moral and religious feel- prayers suspected ing connected with this exterior manifestation of devotion . The Moslems themselves , however , have no such idea . They are rather afraid of any ...
... believe there was ordinarily any corresponding moral and religious feel- prayers suspected ing connected with this exterior manifestation of devotion . The Moslems themselves , however , have no such idea . They are rather afraid of any ...
Page 33
... believe ; and yet I am unwilling to pass away from Beirût without imprinting on memory's tablet a fairer , truer copy of her charming scenery than I have yet obtained . Follow me , then , to the terrace of our house . It commands the ...
... believe ; and yet I am unwilling to pass away from Beirût without imprinting on memory's tablet a fairer , truer copy of her charming scenery than I have yet obtained . Follow me , then , to the terrace of our house . It commands the ...
Page 64
... believe to be very near the truth . Manners and cus- toms , men and things , roads and loads , continue very much what they were three thousand years ago . The truth of that becomes more and more evident the farther we advance . Voices ...
... believe to be very near the truth . Manners and cus- toms , men and things , roads and loads , continue very much what they were three thousand years ago . The truth of that becomes more and more evident the farther we advance . Voices ...
Page 70
... believe it was a gourd , I am quite willing that any one should adopt that opinion which he thinks best supported . tions . TARSHISH . 71 The brief history of Jonah has always. ARBOUR COVERED WITH GOURD AND VINE . 70 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
... believe it was a gourd , I am quite willing that any one should adopt that opinion which he thinks best supported . tions . TARSHISH . 71 The brief history of Jonah has always. ARBOUR COVERED WITH GOURD AND VINE . 70 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
Page 71
... believe it was Tarsus , the birth- place of Paul , and their Bible naturally suggests this idea . In English the name is variously written - Tarshish , Tarsis , and Tarsus . The Seventy do not translate it always alike , and the Vulgate ...
... believe it was Tarsus , the birth- place of Paul , and their Bible naturally suggests this idea . In English the name is variously written - Tarshish , Tarsis , and Tarsus . The Seventy do not translate it always alike , and the Vulgate ...
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Acre allusions ancient Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Beisan Beit Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave CHAPTER cisterns columns custom David desert doubt east Egypt entire Esdraelon fact flocks gate Gaza Gennesaret Hamath Hazor Hebrew Hebron Hermon hills Holy hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jerusalem Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king lake land Lebanon Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali neighbourhood never night north-west olive Oriental Palestine pass Philistines plain probably prophet Ramleh region ride river road rock round ruins sacred says scene seen sepulchres sheikh shore side Sidon Sisera Solomon south-east stone suppose Syria Tell temple tent terebinth thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs travellers trees tribes Tyre unto valley vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion