Palestine: Or, The Holy LandJ. Duncan, 1824 - 372 páginas |
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Página 76
... chre , that " those natural forms are utterly deformed , which would have better satisfied the beholder , and too much regard hath made them less regardable . - Quanto præstantius esset Numen aquæ , viridi si margine clauderet undas ...
... chre , that " those natural forms are utterly deformed , which would have better satisfied the beholder , and too much regard hath made them less regardable . - Quanto præstantius esset Numen aquæ , viridi si margine clauderet undas ...
Página 126
... chre , has no pretensions to the distinction claimed for it , stands in no need of proof . The Evangelists inform us that the sepulchre in which the body of Jesus was laid , was hewn out of the rock , which is not marble , but compact ...
... chre , has no pretensions to the distinction claimed for it , stands in no need of proof . The Evangelists inform us that the sepulchre in which the body of Jesus was laid , was hewn out of the rock , which is not marble , but compact ...
Página 133
... on a board , and carried round the sepul- chre , with a mighty uproar ; boys and men going alongside of it , striking fire from flint . The cere- PART I. I mony began about eleven o'clock ; the church was full THE HOLY LAND . 133.
... on a board , and carried round the sepul- chre , with a mighty uproar ; boys and men going alongside of it , striking fire from flint . The cere- PART I. I mony began about eleven o'clock ; the church was full THE HOLY LAND . 133.
Página 134
... chre , and were chiefly females . The galleries above were also crowded ; many Turkish officers were pre- sent . The governor was expected , but did not arrive . The mob occupied the body of the house , and their behaviour was ...
... chre , and were chiefly females . The galleries above were also crowded ; many Turkish officers were pre- sent . The governor was expected , but did not arrive . The mob occupied the body of the house , and their behaviour was ...
Página 150
... chre , is built in an altar at the upper end of it , and exposed in several places to be kissed and caressed , like other precious relics . It is an unpolished block of compact lime - stone , the same with the rock on which the city ...
... chre , is built in an altar at the upper end of it , and exposed in several places to be kissed and caressed , like other precious relics . It is an unpolished block of compact lime - stone , the same with the rock on which the city ...
Términos y frases comunes
Acre Aksa altar ancient appearance Arabs arches Armenians Ashdod beautiful Beth-horon Bethlehem Buckingham building built Burckhardt called Capernaum castle cave Cesarea chapel Chateaubriand chre Christians church Clarke columns convent covered cross Damascus Dead Sea descended described distance door east edifice Egypt erected feet gate Gaza Greek grotto ground half Haram Schereeff Hebron Herod hill Holy Land inhabitants Jaffa Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jordan Josephus Judea king lake Lord Mangles marble Maundrell miles monks mosque Mount Gerizim Mount of Olives Mount Zion mountain Nazareth olive Palestine Pasha passed pilgrims plain Pococke pool pool of Siloam probably ravine remains Richardson river road rock Roman ruins sacred Sakhara Saphet says Dr shew shewn shiekh side Siloam situated Solomon spot square stone summit supposed Syria temple Tiberias tomb tower town traveller trees Turkish Turks valley village walls
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Página 93 - And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Página 170 - And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
Página 290 - Gennesareth; 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 very well with those several sorts, particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty; there are...
Página 1 - Calvary, — -in those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which, eighteen hundred years ago, were nailed For our advantage to the bitter cross, studying the path in which those footsteps lie, if perhaps we may catch some vision of the present Jesus.
Página 228 - A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him, half dead.
Página 78 - ... dressed and fed them were withdrawn : the Mount of Olives still retains a languishing verdure, and nourishes a few of those trees from which it derives its name; but all round about Jerusalem the general aspect is blighted and barren : the grass is withered : the bare rock looks through the scanty sward, and the grain itself, like the starving progeny of famine, seems in doubt whether to come to maturity or die in the ear.
Página 290 - ... but preserves them a great while ; it supplies men with the principal fruits, with grapes and figs continually, during ten months of the year,* and the rest of the fruits as they become ripe together through the whole year ; for besides the good temperature of the air, it is also watered from a most fertile fountain.
Página 251 - And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God...
Página 71 - The houses of Jerusalem are heavy square masses, • Lamentations i. 1—6; ii. 1—9, 14. very low, without chimneys or windows ; they have flat terraces or domes on the top, and look like prisons or sepulchres. The whole would appear to the eye one uninterrupted level, did not the steeples of the churches, the minarets of the mosques, the summits of a few cypresses, and the clumps of nopals, break the uniformity of the plan.
Página 81 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.