 | 1812 - 1020 pages
...chalk and sand, whose form bears some resemblance to piles of arms, waving standards, or the tents of a camp seated on the border of a plain. On the Arabian...perpendicular rocks, which throw their lengthened shadows over the waters of the Dead Óñà. The smallest bird of heaven would not find among these... | |
 | 1813 - 594 pages
...chalk and sand, whose form bears some resemblance to piles of arms, waving standards, or the tents of a camp seated on the border of a plain. On the Arabian...lengthened shadow over the waters of the Dead Sea. Tbc smallest bird of heaven would not find among these rocks a blade of grass for its sustenance ;... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 550 pages
...chalk and sand, whose form bears some resemblance to piles of arms, waving standards, or the tents of a camp seated on the border of a plain. On the Arabian...perpendicular rocks, which throw their lengthened shadow t*¥*r the -waters of the Dead Sea. The smallest bird of heaven toould not find among these rocks a... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 548 pages
...if the hand of the painter who drew this horizontal line along the sky, had trembled in some places. the waters of the Dead Sea. The smallest bird of heaven...rocks a blade of grass for its sustenance ; every tiling there announces the country of a reprobate people, and seems to breathe the horror and incest... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 546 pages
...piles of arms, waving standards, or the tents of a camp seated on the border of a plain. On the Arahian side, on the contrary, nothing is to be seen but black...perpendicular rocks, which throw their lengthened shadow OTer the waters of the Dead Sea. The smallest hird of heaven would not find among these rocks a blade... | |
 | L. Cohen - 1825 - 192 pages
...and sands, "whose form bears some resemblance to piles of " arms, waving standards, or the tents of a camp '•' seated on the border of a plain. " On...these rocks a blade of grass for "its sustenance; everything there announces the " country of a reprobate people, and seems to' " breathe the horror... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 480 pages
...chalk and sand, whose form bears some resemblance to piles of arms, waving standards, or the tents ot a camp seated on the border of a plain. On the Arabian side, on the i.-outrarv, nothing is to be seen but black perpendicular rocks, which throw their lengthened shadow... | |
 | John Mitford - 1827 - 358 pages
...precipices and caverns. Volney, 1. 203. * Black perpendicular rocks throw their lengthened shadows over the waters of the Dead Sea. The smallest bird of heaven would not find, on any of these rocks, a blade of grass for it's sustenance. Every thing announces the country of a... | |
 | Michael Russell (bp. of Glasgow and Galloway.) - 1831 - 466 pages
...on the border of a plain. The Arabian side, on the contrary, presents nothing but black precipitous rocks, which throw their lengthened shadow over the...smallest bird of heaven would not find among these crags a single blade of grass for its sustenance ; every thing announces the country of a reprobate... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1833 - 374 pages
...on the border of a plain. The Arabian side, on the contrary, presents nothing but black precipitous rocks, which throw their lengthened shadow over the...smallest bird of heaven would not find among these crags a single blade of grass for its sustenance ; every thing announces the country of a reprobate... | |
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Arabian side, on the contrary, nothing is to be seen but black perpendicular rocks, which throw their lengthened shadow over the/ waters of the Dead Sea. The smallest bird of heaven would not find among these rocks s blade of grass for its sustenance;... 
