Travels in Palestine, Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan: Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the DecapolisLongman, 1821 - 553 pages |
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... Roman , and the Saracenian wars ; as a field moistened with the best blood of our ancestors in the wild and romantic age of the crusades ; and even now , at the present hour , as a fair and lovely portion of the earth , still favoured ...
... Roman , and the Saracenian wars ; as a field moistened with the best blood of our ancestors in the wild and romantic age of the crusades ; and even now , at the present hour , as a fair and lovely portion of the earth , still favoured ...
Page xx
... Roman cities , giving the name of Decapolis to the region in which they were seated , must rouse the curiosity of the scholar to know some- thing of its present state . The positions established here , of some among the threescore ...
... Roman cities , giving the name of Decapolis to the region in which they were seated , must rouse the curiosity of the scholar to know some- thing of its present state . The positions established here , of some among the threescore ...
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... Roman work , as the arch , which is here the prominent feature of the masonry , is thought to have been unknown either to the Hebrews or to the early Greeks . This was fought in the month of Mamacterion , in the 4th year of the 111th ...
... Roman work , as the arch , which is here the prominent feature of the masonry , is thought to have been unknown either to the Hebrews or to the early Greeks . This was fought in the month of Mamacterion , in the 4th year of the 111th ...
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... Roman geographers and historians record so much ¶ ; but it is of * Vincent's Periplus of the Eryth . Sea , vol . ii . p . 527 . + Isaiah , c . xxiii . v . 8 . Quintus Curtius , l . iv . c . 4 . Arrian , Ex . Alex . l . ii . c . 24 ...
... Roman geographers and historians record so much ¶ ; but it is of * Vincent's Periplus of the Eryth . Sea , vol . ii . p . 527 . + Isaiah , c . xxiii . v . 8 . Quintus Curtius , l . iv . c . 4 . Arrian , Ex . Alex . l . ii . c . 24 ...
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... Roman Empire , in his account of the crusades † ; and its subsequent history is to be found in the pages of the same writer , collected from sources which few would have the industry or the patience to examine . William of Tyre , whose ...
... Roman Empire , in his account of the crusades † ; and its subsequent history is to be found in the pages of the same writer , collected from sources which few would have the industry or the patience to examine . William of Tyre , whose ...
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