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Page xvii
Come on , therefore , without delay , and let us gather together whatever will
contribute to our comfort , safety , and success . This will reach you by messenger
express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . ” And now , This summons was ...
Come on , therefore , without delay , and let us gather together whatever will
contribute to our comfort , safety , and success . This will reach you by messenger
express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . ” And now , This summons was ...
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None but the very poor consent to be herdmen , and only such , at this day ,
gather sycamore fruit , or use it . The natives say that the sycamore bears seven
crops a year . I think it is Sumber irregular in this matter . Some bear oftener than
...
None but the very poor consent to be herdmen , and only such , at this day ,
gather sycamore fruit , or use it . The natives say that the sycamore bears seven
crops a year . I think it is Sumber irregular in this matter . Some bear oftener than
...
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Some go to meet their associates ; others , to watch for returning friends , or to
accompany those about to depart ; while many gather there to hear the news ,
and to engage in trade and traffic . I have seen in certain places - Joppa , for
example ...
Some go to meet their associates ; others , to watch for returning friends , or to
accompany those about to depart ; while many gather there to hear the news ,
and to engage in trade and traffic . I have seen in certain places - Joppa , for
example ...
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And this position it maintains ever after , as may be gathered from Strabo ,
Ptolemy , Pliny , Josephus , and other authors , both heathen and Christian . It
became a Roman colony in A Roman the reign of Augustus , and had Julia Felix
added to ...
And this position it maintains ever after , as may be gathered from Strabo ,
Ptolemy , Pliny , Josephus , and other authors , both heathen and Christian . It
became a Roman colony in A Roman the reign of Augustus , and had Julia Felix
added to ...
Page 36
Probably this was only the repetition 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
...
Probably this was only the repetition 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
...
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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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