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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... 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 . " This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a ...
... 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 . " This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a ...
Page 23
... gather sycamore fruit , or use it . of crops . The natives say that the sycamore bears seven crops a year . I think it is Number irregular in this matter . Some bear oftener than others , and the same tree yields more crops one year ...
... gather sycamore fruit , or use it . of crops . The natives say that the sycamore bears seven crops a year . I think it is Number irregular in this matter . Some bear oftener than others , and the same tree yields more crops one year ...
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... gather there to hear the news , and to engage in trade and traffic . I have seen in certain places - Joppa , for example - the kâdy and his court sitting at the Holding entrance of the gate , hearing and adjudicating all sorts of causes ...
... gather there to hear the news , and to engage in trade and traffic . I have seen in certain places - Joppa , for example - the kâdy and his court sitting at the Holding entrance of the gate , hearing and adjudicating all sorts of causes ...
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... 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 its name . Agrippa colony . adorned and ...
... 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 its name . Agrippa colony . adorned and ...
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... 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 all . There is a tradition that Fakhr ed Dîn filled up the harbour to prevent the landing of ...
... 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 all . There is a tradition that Fakhr ed Dîn filled up the harbour to prevent the landing of ...
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