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 28
... night comes on , they are shut and locked . It is then too late.9 I see we shall never get into the city , if we sit here conversing about gates until the subject is exhausted . Move on , then ; but allow me to remark , as we enter ...
... night comes on , they are shut and locked . It is then too late.9 I see we shall never get into the city , if we sit here conversing about gates until the subject is exhausted . Move on , then ; but allow me to remark , as we enter ...
Page 32
... night . pure from Moslem and heathen mixtures , and trained to free and becoming social intercourse , and then neither men nor women will think of veils and screens , nor need these apostolic directions in their exact letter . Their ...
... night . pure from Moslem and heathen mixtures , and trained to free and becoming social intercourse , and then neither men nor women will think of veils and screens , nor need these apostolic directions in their exact letter . Their ...
Page 56
... nights of winter , and to cook their mess of pottage and bitter herbs . I have often seen these miserable outcasts ... night ; and then the weary labourer must carry on his aching back a heavy load of dripping berries two or three ...
... nights of winter , and to cook their mess of pottage and bitter herbs . I have often seen these miserable outcasts ... night ; and then the weary labourer must carry on his aching back a heavy load of dripping berries two or three ...
Page 61
... night ? You shake your head reprovingly , and feelings . the allusion is extravagant , but all my present surroundings seem equally so . Boyhood's possible and impossible fancies are gathering thick about me in living realities . I was ...
... night ? You shake your head reprovingly , and feelings . the allusion is extravagant , but all my present surroundings seem equally so . Boyhood's possible and impossible fancies are gathering thick about me in living realities . I was ...
Page 64
... night and this morning make up the fourth day . They count from sunset to sunset , as Adam did , and the coming evening belongs to to - morrow . But here is some- thing else to claim attention , whether we will or not - Arabs watering ...
... night and this morning make up the fourth day . They count from sunset to sunset , as Adam did , and the coming evening belongs to to - morrow . But here is some- thing else to claim attention , whether we will or not - Arabs watering ...
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