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Page xxxiv
... wild amidst garden shrubs , the solitary obelisk which stood in front of the temple , then in company with another , whose base alone now remains . This is the first obelisk I have seen standing in its proper place , and there it has ...
... wild amidst garden shrubs , the solitary obelisk which stood in front of the temple , then in company with another , whose base alone now remains . This is the first obelisk I have seen standing in its proper place , and there it has ...
Page xxxvii
... wild Arab - tribe once settled near the spot . These tombs of Beni - Hassan are amongst the oldest monuments of Egypt , during or before the time of Joseph , yet exhibiting , in the most lively manner , hunting , wrestling , and dancing ...
... wild Arab - tribe once settled near the spot . These tombs of Beni - Hassan are amongst the oldest monuments of Egypt , during or before the time of Joseph , yet exhibiting , in the most lively manner , hunting , wrestling , and dancing ...
Page xxxviii
... wild ruin down to the plain . Nothing which now exists in the world can give any notion of what the effect must have been when he was erect . Nero towering above the Colosseum may have been something like it ; but he was of bronze , and ...
... wild ruin down to the plain . Nothing which now exists in the world can give any notion of what the effect must have been when he was erect . Nero towering above the Colosseum may have been something like it ; but he was of bronze , and ...
Page xliii
... wild cliffs , and find yourself in a long and lofty gallery , opening or narrowing , as the case may be , into successive halls and chambers , all of which are covered with white stucco , and this white stucco brilliant with colours ...
... wild cliffs , and find yourself in a long and lofty gallery , opening or narrowing , as the case may be , into successive halls and chambers , all of which are covered with white stucco , and this white stucco brilliant with colours ...
Page xlix
... wild granite and sandstone hills , which enclose the river so completely , and render the banks so high and steep , that there is no general cultivation . The waters rise to a certain height up the terraced shore , and accordingly here ...
... wild granite and sandstone hills , which enclose the river so completely , and render the banks so high and steep , that there is no general cultivation . The waters rise to a certain height up the terraced shore , and accordingly here ...
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Akaba amongst ancient Arabah Arabs ascent Bedouin Beth-horon Bethel Bethlehem called cave Chapter Christian cliffs colour Dead Sea deep descended described Desert Deut east eastern Egypt Egyptian En-gedi encampment Ephraim Esdraelon Galilee Gebel Mousa Gerizim Gibeah Gibeon granite Greek green Gulf of Akaba Hebrew Hebron height hills Holy inhabitants Israel Israelites Jericho Jerusalem Jewish Jordan Josephus Josh Joshua Judæa Judah Kings lake land Lebanon Lord Michmash Moab modern Moses mosque Mount Mount Hor mountains Mussulman natural Nile northern Olivet Palestine palms pass passage peculiar Peninsula Petra Philistines Phoenicia probably Prophet range ravine Red Sea river rock rocky round ruins sanctuary scene scenery seen sepulchres Serbâl Shechem Sheykh shores side sight Sinai southern spot spring stone stream summit Syria Temple terebinth Testament tion tomb tradition travellers trees tribes valley village Wâdy walls western whole wild wilderness
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Page 306 - 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 135 - 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 352 - 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 177 - 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 177 - 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 259 - 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 155 - 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 188 - 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...