The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy Land |
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They drive their loaded camels , mules , and donkeys along frightful paths , and
endanger their own necks by riding over the same , from generation to
generation , without dreaming of any improvement . You must educate your
nerves into ...
They drive their loaded camels , mules , and donkeys along frightful paths , and
endanger their own necks by riding over the same , from generation to
generation , without dreaming of any improvement . You must educate your
nerves into ...
Page 52
... these pleasing associations ; but to me it is at all times both charming and
refreshing to ride through such a grove when clothed with flowers , or when
bowed down with fat and oily berries . Moses , in that last ode which he taught the
children ...
... these pleasing associations ; but to me it is at all times both charming and
refreshing to ride through such a grove when clothed with flowers , or when
bowed down with fat and oily berries . Moses , in that last ode which he taught the
children ...
Page 56
Such , at least , is the case with the groves we are describing . his vast orchard of
Shwoifat , through which we have been riding for the last hour , has a thousand
owners , and in “ shaking time ” every one must look sharply after his own , or he
...
Such , at least , is the case with the groves we are describing . his vast orchard of
Shwoifat , through which we have been riding for the last hour , has a thousand
owners , and in “ shaking time ” every one must look sharply after his own , or he
...
Page 57
I never take this ride without watching , with weary sadness , this ever - changing
desert . Upon the great sandwaves , which swell up from twenty to fifty feet high ,
the west wind wakes up small but well - defined wavelets , —the counterpart in ...
I never take this ride without watching , with weary sadness , this ever - changing
desert . Upon the great sandwaves , which swell up from twenty to fifty feet high ,
the west wind wakes up small but well - defined wavelets , —the counterpart in ...
Page 58
Let us ride up to the crest of that bold sand - wave , and take a farewell look at
this prospect , so eminently Syrian . Ibrahim Pacha told the Emeer of Shwoifat
that he had three different seas beneath his feet - the blue Hediterranean , this
yellow ...
Let us ride up to the crest of that bold sand - wave , and take a farewell look at
this prospect , so eminently Syrian . Ibrahim Pacha told the Emeer of Shwoifat
that he had three different seas beneath his feet - the blue Hediterranean , this
yellow ...
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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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