The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of The Holy LandT. Nelson & Sons, 1877 - 718 pages |
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Page xvii
... beautiful reality . For twenty years and more , as you well know , a visit to Palestine has been the unattained object of my fondest aspirations ; and now here am I safely landed on her sacred shore , in perfect health , and ready to ...
... beautiful reality . For twenty years and more , as you well know , a visit to Palestine has been the unattained object of my fondest aspirations ; and now here am I safely landed on her sacred shore , in perfect health , and ready to ...
Page 30
... beautiful , it is carefully concealed under their curious head - dresses ; and what appears to be hair is either silk imitation , or it is borrowed . Then , by a strange perversity of manners , or silly antagonism to Christianity , the ...
... beautiful , it is carefully concealed under their curious head - dresses ; and what appears to be hair is either silk imitation , or it is borrowed . Then , by a strange perversity of manners , or silly antagonism to Christianity , the ...
Page 31
... beautiful lady's strength and defence . Modestly veiled , she appears anywhere and everywhere in perfect safety . She is held inviolate by a sensitive and most jealous public sentiment , and no man insults her but at the risk of being ...
... beautiful lady's strength and defence . Modestly veiled , she appears anywhere and everywhere in perfect safety . She is held inviolate by a sensitive and most jealous public sentiment , and no man insults her but at the risk of being ...
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... beautiful place ? I did ; but you could not understand , and no wonder . Neither pen nor pencil can do justice to Beirût . Things hereabouts are on a scale so vast , and there is such an infinite variety in the details , that it is ...
... beautiful place ? I did ; but you could not understand , and no wonder . Neither pen nor pencil can do justice to Beirût . Things hereabouts are on a scale so vast , and there is such an infinite variety in the details , that it is ...
Page 34
... beautiful pine forests , planted , or rather sowed , by successive governors at different times , from the famous Druse chief , Fakhr ed Dîn to Wamic Pasha , the present representative of the Sublime Porte at Beirût . There are a few ...
... beautiful pine forests , planted , or rather sowed , by successive governors at different times , from the famous Druse chief , Fakhr ed Dîn to Wamic Pasha , the present representative of the Sublime Porte at Beirût . There are a few ...
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Abraham Acre allusions ancient appear Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Beit Beth-horon Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave CHAPTER church cisterns columns custom David Dead Sea deep descended desert doubt east Egypt En-rogel entire Esdraelon fact flocks gate Gaza Gennesaret Gerar Hamath Hazor Hebrew Hebron hills Holy hour Hûleh inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jerusalem Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king lake land Lebanon Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains never night north-west Palestine pass Philistines plain pools prophet Ramleh remarkable ride river road rock round ruins sacred says scene seen sepulchres sheikh shore side Sidon Solomon south-east stone suppose Syria Tell Temple tent terebinth thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs towers travellers trees tribes Tyre unto valley vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion