A Pastor's Memorial of Egypt, the Red Sea, the Wildernesses of Sin and Paran, Mount Sinai, Jerusalem: And Other Principal Localities of the Holy Land Visited in 1842Seeley, 1845 - 461 pages |
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... BEDAWEEN ARABS- SHEIKH HUSSEIN - SHEIKH SULEIMAN MENGID - PREPARATIONS FOR THE DESERT - CAIRO - SLAVE MARKET - GREEK CONVENT - PYRAMIDS OF GHISEH- OLD CAIRO - DERVISHES - EGYPTIAN HARVEST - PYRAMIDS OF GHISEH - THE SPHYNX - THE CAMEL ...
... BEDAWEEN ARABS- SHEIKH HUSSEIN - SHEIKH SULEIMAN MENGID - PREPARATIONS FOR THE DESERT - CAIRO - SLAVE MARKET - GREEK CONVENT - PYRAMIDS OF GHISEH- OLD CAIRO - DERVISHES - EGYPTIAN HARVEST - PYRAMIDS OF GHISEH - THE SPHYNX - THE CAMEL ...
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... first undressed , and a shesheh or a chibouk , with a cup of coffee , are immediately served , while the remainder of the operation is effected . The sedative effect of the mild tobacco 90 BATH - BEDAWEEN ARABS . and coffee is very.
... first undressed , and a shesheh or a chibouk , with a cup of coffee , are immediately served , while the remainder of the operation is effected . The sedative effect of the mild tobacco 90 BATH - BEDAWEEN ARABS . and coffee is very.
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... BEDAWEEN ARABS . and coffee is very agreeable after the bath . The remaining process consists in first kneading the muscles of the body and limbs , with the strong and practised hands of the bathers , for about ten minutes . Next the ...
... BEDAWEEN ARABS . and coffee is very agreeable after the bath . The remaining process consists in first kneading the muscles of the body and limbs , with the strong and practised hands of the bathers , for about ten minutes . Next the ...
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And Other Principal Localities of the Holy Land Visited in 1842 George Fisk. BEDAWEEN ARABS . 91 As I shall have frequent occasion to mention the Bedaween , under whose escort alone a safe journey through the Arabian Desert is to be ...
And Other Principal Localities of the Holy Land Visited in 1842 George Fisk. BEDAWEEN ARABS . 91 As I shall have frequent occasion to mention the Bedaween , under whose escort alone a safe journey through the Arabian Desert is to be ...
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... Bedaween , except the very poorest , is completed by an outside flowing mantle , of a very graceful shape - sometimes blue , now and then crimson - but more commonly of a fawn colour , marked with broad stripes of dark brown . The ...
... Bedaween , except the very poorest , is completed by an outside flowing mantle , of a very graceful shape - sometimes blue , now and then crimson - but more commonly of a fawn colour , marked with broad stripes of dark brown . The ...
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Akabah amidst ancient appearance Arabs arrival ascent Ayún Baalbec Bedaween behold Bethlehem bold Cairo called camels caravan charming Christian church Constantinople convent Dead Sea delightful Desert desolation distance Edom Egypt encampment escort feet felt gazed glory graceful habits hand Hassenein hath heart Hebron heights hills Holy Israel Jericho Jerusalem Jesus Jews Jordan journey Jumar land Lebanon looked Lord lovely Mar Saba Mezzeni mind monks morning Mount of Olives Mount Sinai mountain MOUNTS EBAL Nazareth night noble o'clock occupied once ourselves Palestine party passed piastres picturesque plain poor present prophet reached Red Sea refreshment repose rest rock Rome route ruins Samaria scene scripture seemed Sheikh Hussein Sheikh Suleiman shore side soon spirit spot stone stood Suleiman surrounded tents thee thing thou tomb travellers tribes Turkish Tyre unto valley of Jehoshaphat vast village Wadey walls whole wild wilderness Zion
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Page 101 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Page 42 - The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Page 292 - Give me to drink. 8 For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat. 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Page 144 - And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 193 - And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, " Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths : " for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 238 - And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold,...
Page 143 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
Page 66 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded ; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants ; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Page 218 - And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
Page 222 - And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot : and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.