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 ix
... reach the scene of his childhood , NAZARETH . From Nazareth we strike into the famous plain of ESDRAELON , survey the heights of Tabor , Hermon , and Gilboa , visit Endor and Shunem , and other places famed in Old Testament history ...
... reach the scene of his childhood , NAZARETH . From Nazareth we strike into the famous plain of ESDRAELON , survey the heights of Tabor , Hermon , and Gilboa , visit Endor and Shunem , and other places famed in Old Testament history ...
Page xvii
... reach you by messenger express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . " This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a few hours ' ride along the shore brought the author from Sidon to Beirût , where the long ...
... reach you by messenger express . The answer , I hope , will be yourself . " This summons was neither unexpected nor reluctantly obeyed ; and a few hours ' ride along the shore brought the author from Sidon to Beirût , where the long ...
Page 24
... reach the city to - day if we stop at every tree and shrub that is strange , Oriental , or Biblical . Moslem prayers . Very likely . Here , for example , are the almond , the olive , the fig , and the pomegranate , all together ; but we ...
... reach the city to - day if we stop at every tree and shrub that is strange , Oriental , or Biblical . Moslem prayers . Very likely . Here , for example , are the almond , the olive , the fig , and the pomegranate , all together ; but we ...
Page 52
... this flinty marl ; and from thence it draws its richest stores of oil . If the overlying mould is so deep that its 1 Hus . xiv . 6 . 2 Deut . xxxii . 13 . THE OLIVE . 53 roots cannot reach the rock beneath 52 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
... this flinty marl ; and from thence it draws its richest stores of oil . If the overlying mould is so deep that its 1 Hus . xiv . 6 . 2 Deut . xxxii . 13 . THE OLIVE . 53 roots cannot reach the rock beneath 52 THE LAND AND THE BOOK .
Page 53
... reach the rock beneath , I am told that the tree languishes , and CHAPTER its berries are small and sapless . There is , however , another explanation of V. this figure of Moses . In ancient times generally ( and in many places at the ...
... reach the rock beneath , I am told that the tree languishes , and CHAPTER its berries are small and sapless . There is , however , another explanation of V. this figure of Moses . In ancient times generally ( and in many places at the ...
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