 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 358 sider
...under their umbrageous shade." The few cedars still remaining on Mount Libanus are preserved with a religious strictness. On the day of the Transfiguration,...patriarch repairs in procession to these trees, and celebrates a festival, called the feast of cedars. Considering whatever relates to a spot so celebrated... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 sider
...reckoned sixteen, besides a few small ones. The few trees yet left on Mount Lebanon are preserved with a religious strictness. On the day of the Transfiguration,...patriarch repairs in procession to these trees, and celebrates the festival called the Feast of Cedars. There is little doubt but these trees are now far... | |
 | 1838 - 516 sider
...more than twenty-four could 1 tell, and two others, whose branches were quite decayed. I could find no young ones.' Mandrell, in 1696, could reckon only...and performs a feast called the feast of cedars.' " The Cedar of Lebanon has been known in Britain as a cultivated tree for at least 160 years: wherever... | |
 | Ontario. Bureau of Forestry - 1882 - 1002 sider
...that " the few cedars still remaining on Mount Libanus are preserved with a religious strictness ; and on the day of the transfiguration the Patriarch repairs in procession to them, and celebrates a festival called the feast of cedars." Trees for Inspiration, The intimate relations... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1883 - 1068 sider
...that " the few cedars still remaining on Mount Libanus are preserved with a religious strictness ; and on the day of the transfiguration the Patriarch repairs in procession to them, and celebrates a festival called the feast of cedars." Trees for Inspiration. The intimate relations... | |
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Lebanon are preserved with a religious strictness. On the day of the Transfiguration, the patriarch repairs in procession to these trees, and celebrates the festival called the Feast of Cedars. 