A Journey to Damascus Through Egypt, Nubia, Arabia Petræa, Palestine, and Syria, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1847 |
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... 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 chapel , dedicated to St. Gregorio , and , near it , the chapel of Pentalemon . Con- tinuing our ...
... 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 chapel , dedicated to St. Gregorio , and , near it , the chapel of Pentalemon . Con- tinuing our ...
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... wild people , a single shot fired might have cost many lives , and it would have been most painful to have been con- cerned in any such affray ; so that we were doubly pleased ; first , to have seen a good field - day , with all the ...
... wild people , a single shot fired might have cost many lives , and it would have been most painful to have been con- cerned in any such affray ; so that we were doubly pleased ; first , to have seen a good field - day , with all the ...
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... the last sounds I heard were the noisy debates of the Arabs , and the last sight I saw as I closed my eyes was the fitful gleam of their watch - fires with the wild figures surround- ing them . CHAPTER XV . - Akaba- The Hadji Road to Mecca.
... the last sounds I heard were the noisy debates of the Arabs , and the last sight I saw as I closed my eyes was the fitful gleam of their watch - fires with the wild figures surround- ing them . CHAPTER XV . - Akaba- The Hadji Road to Mecca.
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... wild beauty which must be seen in the desert to be understood and appreciated . On entering the little man's garden , we found about a dozen palm - trees fenced in by a bank of sand , and some dry branches , with a sort of arbour in the ...
... wild beauty which must be seen in the desert to be understood and appreciated . On entering the little man's garden , we found about a dozen palm - trees fenced in by a bank of sand , and some dry branches , with a sort of arbour in the ...
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... wild group that preceded us . So we rode on , after this savage - looking escort , with high words and loud disputing . Afterwards came our bag gage , hastily and roughly huddled together on the new camels , followed by a host of ...
... wild group that preceded us . So we rode on , after this savage - looking escort , with high words and loud disputing . Afterwards came our bag gage , hastily and roughly huddled together on the new camels , followed by a host of ...
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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.