A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... bound on by belts and thongs , and they loosened their powder horns from the shoulder , and carried their guns in their hands . Before us the hills rose perpendi- cularly about four hundred feet , apparently closing the valley as with a ...
... bound on by belts and thongs , and they loosened their powder horns from the shoulder , and carried their guns in their hands . Before us the hills rose perpendi- cularly about four hundred feet , apparently closing the valley as with a ...
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... by saying that Jesus was bound near the place . Here are the tombs of the patriarchs and bishops , and as our monk said , " Great men , not come me . " There VOL . II . K 130 A JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS . was a quiet humility TO DAMASCUS . 129.
... by saying that Jesus was bound near the place . Here are the tombs of the patriarchs and bishops , and as our monk said , " Great men , not come me . " There VOL . II . K 130 A JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS . was a quiet humility TO DAMASCUS . 129.
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... with their sabres cut the more than Gordian knots that bound them . If examined , there is some- thing extremely romantic and interesting in the histories of the mountain Princes , and were the 246 DIARY OF A JOURNEY .
... with their sabres cut the more than Gordian knots that bound them . If examined , there is some- thing extremely romantic and interesting in the histories of the mountain Princes , and were the 246 DIARY OF A JOURNEY .
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... bound for Corfu . - Sept. 13th . This morning we reached Malta . As we passed the great harbour , we saw the Queen , Rodney , Indus , Impreg- nable , Howe , and Monarch , with the Medea and Devastation steamers . On taking up our berth ...
... bound for Corfu . - Sept. 13th . This morning we reached Malta . As we passed the great harbour , we saw the Queen , Rodney , Indus , Impreg- nable , Howe , and Monarch , with the Medea and Devastation steamers . On taking up our berth ...
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... bound , with Illustrations . " Miss Strickland's work is a valuable contribution to historical knowledge- to young persons especially . It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest which industry and research could ...
... bound , with Illustrations . " Miss Strickland's work is a valuable contribution to historical knowledge- to young persons especially . It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest which industry and research could ...
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Akaba Alouins appeared Arabs Armenian arrived ascended Baalbec baggage beautiful Bedouins Beirout camels chapel CHAPTER chasm church cliffs colour convent covered crags cultivated Dead Sea defile desert dromedary Edom encamped entered excavations Fellaheen gardens glen goats Hebron hills Holy Horeb horses Howâts Hussein Ibrahim Jehoshaphat Jerusalem JOURNEY TO DAMASCUS July Khasné ladies land Lebanon looked Mehemet Ali Mezeiné monks morning mosque Mount Hor Mount Lebanon Mount of Olives mountain ornaments Oulad Pacha party passed peaks Petra pitched plain pool of Siloam precipices ravines reached rising road rocks rode round ruins sacred sand scene seems seen sepulchres Sheikh side Sinai spot stone summit Taif Allah Tancred temple tent Tiyayah told tombs took Toualeb town track travellers trees tribe valley valley of Jehoshaphat village visited Wady Araba Wady Mousa walls wild winding Zion
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Page 135 - Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of Slaughter ; for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
Page 309 - OVERLAND JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, DURING THE YEARS 1841 AND 1842, BY SIR GEORGE SIMPSON, GOVERNOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY'S TERRITORIES. In one very neat crown octavo volume, rich extra crimson cloth, or in two parts, paper, price 75 cents each.
Page 309 - It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest, which industry and research could collect. We have derived much entertainment and instruction from the work.
Page 136 - For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for My people and for My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted My land.
Page 135 - And they have built the high places of tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which J commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.