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 xii
... shore or sacred lake , on hill side or mountain top , under the olive , or the oak , or the shadow of a great rock : there the author lived , thought , felt , and wrote ; and , no doubt , place and circumstance have given colour and ...
... shore or sacred lake , on hill side or mountain top , under the olive , or the oak , or the shadow of a great rock : there the author lived , thought , felt , and wrote ; and , no doubt , place and circumstance have given colour and ...
Page xvii
... shore , in perfect health , and ready to prosecute our pilgrimage with cheer- ful courage and high hope . The compact of our boyhood is to be realized , and I summon you to fulfil your part of it . This land of the Bible must become ...
... shore , in perfect health , and ready to prosecute our pilgrimage with cheer- ful courage and high hope . The compact of our boyhood is to be realized , and I summon you to fulfil your part of it . This land of the Bible must become ...
Page 33
... shore , from Ras Beirût to Nahr Yâbis , some six miles toward Sidon . The perpendicular runs in east- ward from the Ras about five miles to the foot of Lebanon , at the bottom of St. George's Bay . The hypothenuse is the irregular line ...
... shore , from Ras Beirût to Nahr Yâbis , some six miles toward Sidon . The perpendicular runs in east- ward from the Ras about five miles to the foot of Lebanon , at the bottom of St. George's Bay . The hypothenuse is the irregular line ...
Page 37
... shore . I can show you the well into which the victorious saint cast the horrid monster , and the spot where he washed his bloody hands after this dirty work was done . Not every legend of those days of facile faith is so strongly ...
... shore . I can show you the well into which the victorious saint cast the horrid monster , and the spot where he washed his bloody hands after this dirty work was done . Not every legend of those days of facile faith is so strongly ...
Page 57
... shore is a soft sand- stone , which is continually disintegrating by the action of wind and wave . The loose sand is cast up upon the beach , and the strong south - west winds which blow across the plain are constantly spreading it ...
... shore is a soft sand- stone , which is continually disintegrating by the action of wind and wave . The loose sand is cast up upon the beach , and the strong south - west winds which blow across the plain are constantly spreading it ...
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