The Land and the Book: Or Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land, Volume 1Harper, 1858 |
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... traveler is not a mythical abstrac- tion , whose office is merely to introduce new themes as they are needed , but a true and loving brother , who thus an- nounces his arrival and the object of his visit : " Ras Beirat , January 20th ...
... traveler is not a mythical abstrac- tion , whose office is merely to introduce new themes as they are needed , but a true and loving brother , who thus an- nounces his arrival and the object of his visit : " Ras Beirat , January 20th ...
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... traveler in a strange land will have refer- ence to the means of locomotion . As to your question , however , the natives will tell you that carriage - roads can not be made in Syria . But this is a mistake . They might be constructed ...
... traveler in a strange land will have refer- ence to the means of locomotion . As to your question , however , the natives will tell you that carriage - roads can not be made in Syria . But this is a mistake . They might be constructed ...
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... traveler . In this country they do not yield large crops , but in Cyprus , Asia Minor , and the Grecian Islands , you will see full- grown trees bending under half a ton of green pods . The kharûb is often called St. John's Bread , and ...
... traveler . In this country they do not yield large crops , but in Cyprus , Asia Minor , and the Grecian Islands , you will see full- grown trees bending under half a ton of green pods . The kharûb is often called St. John's Bread , and ...
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... traveler . " They are in retired corners , and must be sought for , and are opened only to those who knock ; and when the sun goes down , and the night comes on , they are shut and locked . It is then too late.2 I see we shall never get ...
... traveler . " They are in retired corners , and must be sought for , and are opened only to those who knock ; and when the sun goes down , and the night comes on , they are shut and locked . It is then too late.2 I see we shall never get ...
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... travelers , or even natives , are aware of . On the top of that dark , sandy ridge of Lebanon , to the northeast of Brummanah , is a fountain of delicious water . It was BEIRUT - AQUEDUCT . 47 conducted in stone tubes along 46 THE LAND ...
... travelers , or even natives , are aware of . On the top of that dark , sandy ridge of Lebanon , to the northeast of Brummanah , is a fountain of delicious water . It was BEIRUT - AQUEDUCT . 47 conducted in stone tubes along 46 THE LAND ...
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Acre Ain et Tîny ancient antiquity Arabs Asher Baal-gad Baalbek Banias beautiful Beirût Bible Bichri birds bitumen called Capernaum castle cliffs columns custom Deir doubt Druses east entire fact farther flocks Galilee Gennesaret Hamath Hasbany Hazor Hebrew Hermon hills hour Hûleh Hûm hundred feet Hunîn inhabitants Jabin Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kefr Kenite Kings Kudes Kurn lake land Lebanon Lord marsh mentioned Metawelies miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali never night olive once Oriental Palestine pass Phoenician plain plow poor prophet ravine region Rehob ride river road rock round ruins Safed says seen Sheikh shepherd shore side Sidon Solomon stone stream suppose Syria Tell temple tent terebinth thee thing thorns thou thousand Tiberias TIBNIN tion tombs trees tribe Tyre valley vast village wady wall whole wild wind wonder Zaanaim
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Page 438 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Page 17 - And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
Page 134 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 32 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 492 - My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.
Page 17 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it ; for I will give it unto thee.
Page 221 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 337 - Arise, that we may go up against them : for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good : and are ye still ! be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Page 146 - I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Page 438 - So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.