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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... wild Arabs of the Mohammedan des- olation became masters , wheeled vehicles immediately sunk into neglect , and even contempt . Accustomed only to the horse , the camel , and the ass , they despised all other means of travel and ...
... wild Arabs of the Mohammedan des- olation became masters , wheeled vehicles immediately sunk into neglect , and even contempt . Accustomed only to the horse , the camel , and the ass , they despised all other means of travel and ...
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... wild tornado may tear it to fragments , but nothing short of miraculous power can fair- ly pluck it up by the roots . I have but faint ideas of a faith that could pluck up and plant in the sea such a tree as that ; and these facts cer ...
... wild tornado may tear it to fragments , but nothing short of miraculous power can fair- ly pluck it up by the roots . I have but faint ideas of a faith that could pluck up and plant in the sea such a tree as that ; and these facts cer ...
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... service , it is quite im- pressive . I have seen it admirably enacted by moonlight , on the wild banks of the Orontes , in the plain of Hamath , and the scene was something more than romantic . But , alas ! it was by as villainous a set of.
... service , it is quite im- pressive . I have seen it admirably enacted by moonlight , on the wild banks of the Orontes , in the plain of Hamath , and the scene was something more than romantic . But , alas ! it was by as villainous a set of.
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... wild gorge of the Dog River , with snowy Sun- nîn beyond and above ; the sandy ridge of Brumanah , and Deir el Kŭlâh , with the deep ravine of Nahr Beirût ; the hills of El Ghurb , bold and bright against the southern sky , from Aleih ...
... wild gorge of the Dog River , with snowy Sun- nîn beyond and above ; the sandy ridge of Brumanah , and Deir el Kŭlâh , with the deep ravine of Nahr Beirût ; the hills of El Ghurb , bold and bright against the southern sky , from Aleih ...
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... wild beasts and with one another , as Josephus informs us in the seventh book of his " Wars . " Though the apostles seem never to have visited Beirût- a fact somewhat remarkable - yet Christianity was early planted here , and so ...
... wild beasts and with one another , as Josephus informs us in the seventh book of his " Wars . " Though the apostles seem never to have visited Beirût- a fact somewhat remarkable - yet Christianity was early planted here , and so ...
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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.