Sephora: A Hebrew Tale, Descriptive of the Country of Palestine, and of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Israelites, Volume 2J. Hatchard, 1826 - 560 pages |
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... hour that morning , that she almost feared he had been contriving some new way of burdening time , and that other pompous bridal ceremonies still awaited them . But as soon as she saw him these fears quite vanished from her mind , and ...
... hour that morning , that she almost feared he had been contriving some new way of burdening time , and that other pompous bridal ceremonies still awaited them . But as soon as she saw him these fears quite vanished from her mind , and ...
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... hour of evening prayer would arrive before she could return , and she always wished to pass that time in re- tirement . But she thought there would be something ostentatious in giving this as a motive for her refusal . She was not quite ...
... hour of evening prayer would arrive before she could return , and she always wished to pass that time in re- tirement . But she thought there would be something ostentatious in giving this as a motive for her refusal . She was not quite ...
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... hour of evening sacrifice . The widow also , whose heaving heart was overcharged with grief , hope , and gratitude , fell down to spread her sorrows before God , and seemed altogether unconscious or regard- less of the presence of her ...
... hour of evening sacrifice . The widow also , whose heaving heart was overcharged with grief , hope , and gratitude , fell down to spread her sorrows before God , and seemed altogether unconscious or regard- less of the presence of her ...
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... hour ; but the travel- lers got leave to retire from them , that they might be ready for an early departure on the morrow . Their first stage was to Ginea , the frontier town of Samaria . It was situ- ated towards the base of the ...
... hour ; but the travel- lers got leave to retire from them , that they might be ready for an early departure on the morrow . Their first stage was to Ginea , the frontier town of Samaria . It was situ- ated towards the base of the ...
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... hour that belongs neither to night nor day , they resumed their journey . They wound through the dale of Samaria without entering its gates , and passing between the hills that inclosed it , entered the road that leads to- wards ...
... hour that belongs neither to night nor day , they resumed their journey . They wound through the dale of Samaria without entering its gates , and passing between the hills that inclosed it , entered the road that leads to- wards ...
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ancient appearance Arabs Arbelio arms beautiful beheld blessing burnoose byssus called camels Caphtor and Sephora cave cavern countenance door dress eastern endeavoured entered escape eyes father favour fear feast feast of tabernacles feelings feet felt fruit garment gate hair hand happiness head heard heart heaven Hebrew high priest hill horses hour husband hyæna hyke Israelites Jaachonia Jerusalem Jews journey Judea Julius Kabyles Keroob Kishon knew Laadon looked Lord mercy mind Mount Hermon mountains multitude Nain nature ness never Niger night olive Oriental Customs passed passover path Patrobus plain reached robbers rock round scarcely scene seemed sepulchre sheep shepherd side sight Sisera solemn soon sorrows soul spirit stone stood Temple tent thee thing thought tion took Travels tribe tribe of Issachar Tryphosa turned URIM AND THUMMIM valley voice wild women Zibo Zina
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Page 203 - Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
Page 188 - And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Page 233 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; and said, Whose daughter art thou?
Page 13 - Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried : the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Page 79 - their hand was against every man, and every man's hand was against them.
Page 193 - And Deborah said unto Barak, Up ; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand : is not the LORD gone out before thee ? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
Page 242 - We had not been prepared for the grandeur of the spectacle which the city alone exhibited. Instead of a wretched and ruined town, by some described as the desolated remnant of Jerusalem, we beheld, as it were, a flourishing and stately metropolis...
Page 257 - And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Page 253 - But this temple appeared to strangers, when they were coming to it at a distance, like a mountain covered with snow ; for as to those parts of it that were not gilt, they were exceeding white.