The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land, Volume 1Harper & brothers, 1871 |
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... ravine , and tree and house on lofty Lebanon . That virgin snow on its summit is thirty miles off , and yet you could almost read your own name there , if written with a bold hand on its calm , cold brow . Through such utter ...
... ravine , and tree and house on lofty Lebanon . That virgin snow on its summit is thirty miles off , and yet you could almost read your own name there , if written with a bold hand on its calm , cold brow . Through such utter ...
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... ravine of Nahr Beirût ; the hills of El Ghurb , bold and bright against the southern sky , from Aleih to Abeîh , with hamlets , and factories , and or- chards peeping over the smiling suburbs ; and the city it- self , with white houses ...
... ravine of Nahr Beirût ; the hills of El Ghurb , bold and bright against the southern sky , from Aleih to Abeîh , with hamlets , and factories , and or- chards peeping over the smiling suburbs ; and the city it- self , with white houses ...
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... ravine becomes too narrow , wild , and rocky for any but a goat - path , and the road leads thence over the steep shoulder of the mountain for an hour and a half . It then descends by a very slippery track to the river , in the ...
... ravine becomes too narrow , wild , and rocky for any but a goat - path , and the road leads thence over the steep shoulder of the mountain for an hour and a half . It then descends by a very slippery track to the river , in the ...
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... ravine of the latter stream , and not far from its birth , nature has thrown , or has left , a gigantic arch , which to this day is the bridge for the public highway , the highest in the land , creeping cautiously along the very ...
... ravine of the latter stream , and not far from its birth , nature has thrown , or has left , a gigantic arch , which to this day is the bridge for the public highway , the highest in the land , creeping cautiously along the very ...
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... ravine , through June , and down those sloping hills of white marl to the River Owely . Let me call your attention to that large con- vent , called Deir Mukhullis , on the mountain side across the wady . It is the wealthiest ...
... ravine , through June , and down those sloping hills of white marl to the River Owely . Let me call your attention to that large con- vent , called Deir Mukhullis , on the mountain side across the wady . It is the wealthiest ...
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Acre ancient antiquity Arabs Baal-gad Baalbek Banias beautiful Beirût Bible birds called Capernaum castle charms Christian cliffs coast columns custom Deir doubt Druses east entire eyes fact farther flocks friends gate Gennesaret Greek Hamath Hasbany Hazor head Hebrew Hermon hills hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Jabin Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kings Kudes Kurn ladies lake land Lebanon look Lord mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali never night olive Oriental Palestine pass Phoenicians plain plow poor probably prophet ravine region Rehob ride river road rock round ruins Safed sarcophagi says seen Sheikh shepherd shore side Sidon Solomon stone suppose Syria tarbush Tell temple tent terebinth thee thing thorns thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs trees tribes Tyre unto vast village Wady wall whole wild wind