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 xvii
... ride along the shore brought the author from Sidon to Beirût , where the long - separated met in the hospitable mansion of a mutual friend . And now , kind reader , I trust that , like ourselves , you are eager to commence this tour of ...
... ride along the shore brought the author from Sidon to Beirût , where the long - separated met in the hospitable mansion of a mutual friend . And now , kind reader , I trust that , like ourselves , you are eager to commence this tour of ...
Page 44
... ride . The scenery also around the Sources of sources of the river , high up under Sunnîn , is very romantic . As this is the the river . Lycus of the ancients , with a history and a myth of its own , we may spend a few more moments ...
... ride . The scenery also around the Sources of sources of the river , high up under Sunnîn , is very romantic . As this is the the river . Lycus of the ancients , with a history and a myth of its own , we may spend a few more moments ...
Page 52
... 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 of Israel , speaks of " oil out of the flinty rock ; ; " 2 and until now I had ...
... 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 of Israel , speaks of " oil out of the flinty rock ; ; " 2 and until now I had ...
Page 57
... ride without watch- ing , with weary sadness , this ever - changing desert . Upon the great sand- waves , which swell up from twenty to fifty feet high , the west wind wakes up small but well - defined wavelets , the counterpart in ...
... ride without watch- ing , with weary sadness , this ever - changing desert . Upon the great sand- waves , which swell up from twenty to fifty feet high , the west wind wakes up small but well - defined wavelets , the counterpart in ...
Page 58
... 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 Mediterranean , this ...
... 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 Mediterranean , this ...
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Acre allusions ancient Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Beisan Beit Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave CHAPTER cisterns columns custom David desert doubt east Egypt entire Esdraelon fact flocks gate Gaza Gennesaret Hamath Hazor Hebrew Hebron Hermon hills Holy hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jerusalem Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king lake land Lebanon Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali neighbourhood never night north-west olive Oriental Palestine pass Philistines plain probably prophet Ramleh region ride river road rock round ruins sacred says scene seen sepulchres sheikh shore side Sidon Sisera Solomon south-east stone suppose Syria Tell temple tent terebinth thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs travellers trees tribes Tyre unto valley vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion