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Page xi
The first impressions , corrected and improved by subsequent study and
examination , are now reproduced for the eye of the public and the heart of the
pious . The author entertains the opinion that much has been published upon
Biblical ...
The first impressions , corrected and improved by subsequent study and
examination , are now reproduced for the eye of the public and the heart of the
pious . The author entertains the opinion that much has been published upon
Biblical ...
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Abraham himself never set foot on one - tenth of this territory , and Moses only got
a bird's - eye view of it - not a bad one , though , if the day was as intensely clear
as ours is . One seems to look quite to the bottom of heaven's profoundest ...
Abraham himself never set foot on one - tenth of this territory , and Moses only got
a bird's - eye view of it - not a bad one , though , if the day was as intensely clear
as ours is . One seems to look quite to the bottom of heaven's profoundest ...
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45 IV . has eyes , or deserves to have them , will pass up the river from its mouth
CHAPTER without stopping again and again to admire the grey cliffs towering up
to the sky on either side . The aqueduct will also attract attention , clinging to the ...
45 IV . has eyes , or deserves to have them , will pass up the river from its mouth
CHAPTER without stopping again and again to admire the grey cliffs towering up
to the sky on either side . The aqueduct will also attract attention , clinging to the ...
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No sentiment can be more appropriate . We shall need the admonition at every
step , and the promise thereto annexed as well . But the royal preacher has given
another piece of advice to travellers : “ Let thine eyes look right on , and let thine ...
No sentiment can be more appropriate . We shall need the admonition at every
step , and the promise thereto annexed as well . But the royal preacher has given
another piece of advice to travellers : “ Let thine eyes look right on , and let thine ...
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It does not strike me as very beautiful ; but perhaps one's eye needs to be
educated before it can distinguish properly , and decide correctly , on such
questions in new and strange circumstances . No doubt . To me this noble grove ,
spreading ...
It does not strike me as very beautiful ; but perhaps one's eye needs to be
educated before it can distinguish properly , and decide correctly , on such
questions in new and strange circumstances . No doubt . To me this noble grove ,
spreading ...
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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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