The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy LandT. Nelson, 1869 - 718 pages |
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Page 60
... wall running up the stream to confine it to its proper bed ; but in winter it sets all bounds at defiance . During a great flood last year it spread through these gardens of Mûallakah , tore up the mulberry - trees , and swept them off ...
... wall running up the stream to confine it to its proper bed ; but in winter it sets all bounds at defiance . During a great flood last year it spread through these gardens of Mûallakah , tore up the mulberry - trees , and swept them off ...
Page 64
... wall , and the beam out of the timber will answer . We only need to know how to put them to the ques- tion . Without being resposible for your accommodation of Habakkuk , the idea is correct enough , and should be remembered and acted ...
... wall , and the beam out of the timber will answer . We only need to know how to put them to the ques- tion . Without being resposible for your accommodation of Habakkuk , the idea is correct enough , and should be remembered and acted ...
Page 85
... wall . My measuring cord , held one foot in advance of the edge , did not touch the rock for more than two hundred feet . When the stream is swollen by the winter rains , it is a splendid cataract ; and there are several others almost ...
... wall . My measuring cord , held one foot in advance of the edge , did not touch the rock for more than two hundred feet . When the stream is swollen by the winter rains , it is a splendid cataract ; and there are several others almost ...
Page 89
... walls towered high , and were drawn with an ample compass , embracing an area many times larger than the present city ... wall from whence you can survey at your leisure what remains of Sidon's ruins , and that about her which never can ...
... walls towered high , and were drawn with an ample compass , embracing an area many times larger than the present city ... wall from whence you can survey at your leisure what remains of Sidon's ruins , and that about her which never can ...
Page 97
... wall , to get oranges from this garden outside the down from city.3 So Paul tells the Corinthians , at the close of that long list of perils and persecutions which he ... wall . PART I. Writing upon walls . Certainly the illustration is 7.
... wall , to get oranges from this garden outside the down from city.3 So Paul tells the Corinthians , at the close of that long list of perils and persecutions which he ... wall . PART I. Writing upon walls . Certainly the illustration is 7.
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