A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... built on the spot where once some monks , going up to pray , in a time of great scarcity , are said to have met the Virgin , who promised them bread . On their return to the convent , they found food had been sent to them B 2.
... built on the spot where once some monks , going up to pray , in a time of great scarcity , are said to have met the Virgin , who promised them bread . On their return to the convent , they found food had been sent to them B 2.
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... once a garden smiled , " near these chapels and her- mitages , but no one dwells now amidst these hills but the Bedouin , who passes along their base , to - day fixes his tent and feeds his camels , and to - morrow is seen no more . The ...
... once a garden smiled , " near these chapels and her- mitages , but no one dwells now amidst these hills but the Bedouin , who passes along their base , to - day fixes his tent and feeds his camels , and to - morrow is seen no more . The ...
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... forgotten ; pos- sessing singular brightness about the eye , and a sinister smile . I heard him laugh once , but it was a joyless sound ; the echo of another's hilarity rather than a de- monstration of his 42 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
... forgotten ; pos- sessing singular brightness about the eye , and a sinister smile . I heard him laugh once , but it was a joyless sound ; the echo of another's hilarity rather than a de- monstration of his 42 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
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... for awhile amid a torrent of expletives on all sides ; the din was terrific , every one speaking at once , and excited to a pitch of frenzy that seemed ungovernable . All the Oulad Said's camels were unloaded , TO DAMASCUS . 63.
... for awhile amid a torrent of expletives on all sides ; the din was terrific , every one speaking at once , and excited to a pitch of frenzy that seemed ungovernable . All the Oulad Said's camels were unloaded , TO DAMASCUS . 63.
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... once dismounted . must do the aggressors the justice to say that they used no violence , and it appeared as though they were excited to act as they had done from eagerness to have their camels loaded . I In this last rush , while I was ...
... once dismounted . must do the aggressors the justice to say that they used no violence , and it appeared as though they were excited to act as they had done from eagerness to have their camels loaded . I In this last rush , while I was ...
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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.
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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.