 | William McClure Thomson - 1872 - 774 pages
...Jowphn«' fui as well as its beauty. Its soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow "cconnt <* upon it, and the inhabitants, accordingly, plant all sorts of trees there ; for wet. the temperature of the air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with Ui'ise several sorts... | |
 | James Morison - 1873 - 1020 pages
...furlongs in length, and twenty in breadth. ( War, iii, 10. 8). " Its nature is "wonderful," he says, "as well as its beauty. Its soil is so fruitful, that...grow upon it; and the inhabitants accordingly plant on it all "kinds. The temperature of the air is so well mixed, that it agrees with the " different... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1874 - 836 pages
...description of tho district when under cultivation is couched in glowing t >rms ; ho tells us that " its nature is wonderful as well as its beauty ; its...air is so well mixed that it agrees very well with these several sorts, particularly waluuts, wliich require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty.... | |
 | Henry Baker Tristram - 1875 - 544 pages
...Josephus thus describes Gennesaret : — " The soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow on it, and the inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts...air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with their several sorts. Walnuts, which require the coldest air, particularly flouriih there in vast plentv... | |
 | Samuel Ives Curtiss - 1879 - 140 pages
...supply of food as constant and permanent." over-against this lake hath the same name of Gennesareth; its nature is 'wonderful, as well as its beauty; its...fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it, ... for the temper of the air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with those several sorts,... | |
 | Mary Wardle - 1879 - 336 pages
...of trees can grow upon it. The inhabitants accordingly plant in great variety, for the temperature of the air is so well mixed that it agrees very well...particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, and flourish there in vast plenty. There are palm trees also, which grow best in hot air; fig trees... | |
 | William Stevens Balch - 1881 - 466 pages
...fully the laudation of Josephus, as he described it eighteen centuries ago, in his quaint language. " Its nature is wonderful, as well as its beauty ; its...agrees very well with those several sorts, particularly with walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourisheth there in vast plenty ; there are palm trees,... | |
 | John Welsh Dulles - 1881 - 538 pages
...contributes so much to our knowledge of that period), pronounces a warm eulogium on this pretty plain : " Its nature is wonderful, as well as its beauty. Its...fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it. Walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty. There are palm trees also, which... | |
 | William Stevens Balch - 1881 - 464 pages
...fully the laudation of Josephus, as he described it eighteen centuries ago, in his quaint language. "Its nature is wonderful, as well as its beauty ; its soil is so fruitful that ah' sorts of trees can grow upon it, and the inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts of trees there,... | |
 | J L Nye - 1882 - 104 pages
...Gennesaret. . . . B. v. — ' To the land unto. Josephus thus boasts of the fertility of Gennesaret. Its nature is wonderful as well as its beauty. " Its...accordingly, plant all sorts of trees there ; for the temperature of the air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with those several sorts ; particularly... | |
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Genncsareth ; its nature is wonderful as well as its beauty ; its soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it, and the inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts of trees there ; for the temper of the air is so well mixed that it agrees... 
