The Golden Horn: And Sketches in Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the Hauraan, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1851 - 652 pages |
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... turned it into a quarry but it seems to have withstood all their efforts , since the injury done on the northern side has not in the least affected the other sides or the stability of the pyramid itself . On returning to Soweh we sailed ...
... turned it into a quarry but it seems to have withstood all their efforts , since the injury done on the northern side has not in the least affected the other sides or the stability of the pyramid itself . On returning to Soweh we sailed ...
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... turned up to no purpose above the knee , my gun in the right hand above my shoulder , a pair of shoes in the left , ( for the mud alone reached half way up my legs , so that I should inevitably have lost one or both of my shoes , had I ...
... turned up to no purpose above the knee , my gun in the right hand above my shoulder , a pair of shoes in the left , ( for the mud alone reached half way up my legs , so that I should inevitably have lost one or both of my shoes , had I ...
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... turned over dead , and proved to be a fine jackal , who had seized the occasion of Mahmoud's back being turned to possess himself of so dainty a mor- sel , which proved too tempting to allow of its being carried away , or shared with ...
... turned over dead , and proved to be a fine jackal , who had seized the occasion of Mahmoud's back being turned to possess himself of so dainty a mor- sel , which proved too tempting to allow of its being carried away , or shared with ...
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... turned over dead , and proved to be a fine jackal , who had seized the occasion of Mahmoud's back being turned to possess himself of so dainty a mor- sel , which proved too tempting to allow of its being carried away , or shared with ...
... turned over dead , and proved to be a fine jackal , who had seized the occasion of Mahmoud's back being turned to possess himself of so dainty a mor- sel , which proved too tempting to allow of its being carried away , or shared with ...
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... be fatal to the theory of their having crossed there , for when the morning appeared the waters re- turned and overwhelmed the Egyptians . To the supposition that the passage took place PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA . 63 above Suez it.
... be fatal to the theory of their having crossed there , for when the morning appeared the waters re- turned and overwhelmed the Egyptians . To the supposition that the passage took place PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA . 63 above Suez it.
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Page 167 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 73 - And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days : and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Page 60 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared ; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 231 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 231 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Page 170 - Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Page 61 - So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Page 61 - And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Page 220 - Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle...
Page 149 - Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.