A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... trees suit the landscape , and there is something peculiarly graceful in their form which , in a trimmed parterre , is lost sight of , but recognised in the midst of crags and precipices . I walked into the chapel , which had nothing to ...
... trees suit the landscape , and there is something peculiarly graceful in their form which , in a trimmed parterre , is lost sight of , but recognised in the midst of crags and precipices . I walked into the chapel , which had nothing to ...
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... tree , winds among huge rocks and crags , through precipices and small ravines , clothed with wild plants and shrubs . The air is filled with the sweet perfume of wild thyme , rose- mary , and other scented herbs . We passed a small ...
... tree , winds among huge rocks and crags , through precipices and small ravines , clothed with wild plants and shrubs . The air is filled with the sweet perfume of wild thyme , rose- mary , and other scented herbs . We passed a small ...
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... trees , and adorned with noble cypresses . We breakfasted at what is called the Well of the Partridge , under a perpendicular cliff of granite . There is some limestone near , in which the spring rises from a ledge of rock in the heart ...
... trees , and adorned with noble cypresses . We breakfasted at what is called the Well of the Partridge , under a perpendicular cliff of granite . There is some limestone near , in which the spring rises from a ledge of rock in the heart ...
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... trees a good distance from our tents , the noise of their conversation is indescribable ; and it is impossible to guess how it will end , for our friends Fiske and Erskine have had no answer . Ten thousand piastres were asked , and they ...
... trees a good distance from our tents , the noise of their conversation is indescribable ; and it is impossible to guess how it will end , for our friends Fiske and Erskine have had no answer . Ten thousand piastres were asked , and they ...
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... trees , surrounded by a crowd of Alouins . They were in far better condi- tion than our Mount Sinai animals , and their saddles and trappings looked in better order , and altogether more solid and useful . The 44 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
... trees , surrounded by a crowd of Alouins . They were in far better condi- tion than our Mount Sinai animals , and their saddles and trappings looked in better order , and altogether more solid and useful . The 44 DIARY OF A JOURNEY.
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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.