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... Walls and Towers - Palaces - Ruins - Earthquake . III . MOUNT OF OLIVES - Slight connection with the early history . Connection with the Gospel History - Presence of Christ- Bethany - Scene of the Triumphal entry - The Ascension ...
... Walls and Towers - Palaces - Ruins - Earthquake . III . MOUNT OF OLIVES - Slight connection with the early history . Connection with the Gospel History - Presence of Christ- Bethany - Scene of the Triumphal entry - The Ascension ...
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... Walls and Towers - Palaces - Ruins - Earthquake . III . MOUNT OF OLIVES - Slight connection with the early history . Connection with the Gospel History - Presence of Christ- Bethany - Scene of the Triumphal entry - The Ascension ...
... Walls and Towers - Palaces - Ruins - Earthquake . III . MOUNT OF OLIVES - Slight connection with the early history . Connection with the Gospel History - Presence of Christ- Bethany - Scene of the Triumphal entry - The Ascension ...
Page xxxii
... walls of Karnac . It may be worth while to mention that this sculp- ture , which is incorrectly given by Cham- pollion - Figeac and by Dr. Robinson , is accurately represented , from Rosellini , in Kenrick's Egypt , vol . ii . p . 349 ...
... walls of Karnac . It may be worth while to mention that this sculp- ture , which is incorrectly given by Cham- pollion - Figeac and by Dr. Robinson , is accurately represented , from Rosellini , in Kenrick's Egypt , vol . ii . p . 349 ...
Page xxxv
... walls . Putting out of sight the minarets of Cairo in the distance , it was the same that Joseph and Moses had as they looked out towards Memphis , -the sandy desert ; the green fields of Egypt ; and , already in their time ancient ...
... walls . Putting out of sight the minarets of Cairo in the distance , it was the same that Joseph and Moses had as they looked out towards Memphis , -the sandy desert ; the green fields of Egypt ; and , already in their time ancient ...
Page xxxvii
... wall of limestone rock . In the face of this cliff are thirty holes - the famous tombs of Beni- Hassan , that is , of the children of Hassan , the wild Arab - tribe once settled near the spot . These tombs of Beni - Hassan are amongst ...
... wall of limestone rock . In the face of this cliff are thirty holes - the famous tombs of Beni- Hassan , that is , of the children of Hassan , the wild Arab - tribe once settled near the spot . These tombs of Beni - Hassan are amongst ...
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Page 300 - And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Page 151 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Page 129 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page xiii - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Page 346 - Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 173 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 173 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 253 - So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor ; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Page 151 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 184 - Blessed of the LORD be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath, And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, And for the precious things put forth by the moon, And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the lasting hills...