Palestine: Or, The Holy LandJ. Duncan, 1824 - 372 páginas |
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... town of any consequence which does not contain at least one convent . The country districts are , to a great extent , filled with nomadic Arabs . The true Arab is always an inhabitant of the desert ; a name given to any solitude ...
... town of any consequence which does not contain at least one convent . The country districts are , to a great extent , filled with nomadic Arabs . The true Arab is always an inhabitant of the desert ; a name given to any solitude ...
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... towns and villages are almost uniformly built upon hills or heights . The scarcity of the rains in Arabia , and their abundance in Pales- tine , has been with some plausibility assigned as the reason for this difference . The floods in ...
... towns and villages are almost uniformly built upon hills or heights . The scarcity of the rains in Arabia , and their abundance in Pales- tine , has been with some plausibility assigned as the reason for this difference . The floods in ...
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... towns that had once been flourishing , were reduced by his oppression to a few cottages , and luxuriant plains were abandoned to the wandering Arabs . His suc- cessor is described by Dr. Richardson as a man of milder , if not more ...
... towns that had once been flourishing , were reduced by his oppression to a few cottages , and luxuriant plains were abandoned to the wandering Arabs . His suc- cessor is described by Dr. Richardson as a man of milder , if not more ...
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... town and harbour , made it one of the first towns on the coast . In modern times it has been rendered celebrated for the successful stand it made , with the aid of the British under Sir Sidney Smith , against the French troops commanded ...
... town and harbour , made it one of the first towns on the coast . In modern times it has been rendered celebrated for the successful stand it made , with the aid of the British under Sir Sidney Smith , against the French troops commanded ...
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... the channel , and actually saw the ruins of a small bridge over it , near the town , and of a larger further on . " - Travels in the East , book i . chap . 13 . * This account is taken from Pocoeke , book i 24 PALESTINE ; OR ,
... the channel , and actually saw the ruins of a small bridge over it , near the town , and of a larger further on . " - Travels in the East , book i . chap . 13 . * This account is taken from Pocoeke , book i 24 PALESTINE ; OR ,
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 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.