San Marcos: A Brief History

Forsideomslag
Coda Publications, 1977
A comfortable book about San Marcos, from the time its minister/schoolteacher/store clerk/newspaper publisher was the most vocal man in town, to the city's growth to a population of over 50,000. There's little that's dull here.

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Indhold

William Webster Borden
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A Brief History Of San Marcos
37
Letter To The Editor
93
Family Album
95
Index
119
Copyright

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Side 10 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, And the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; The screech owl also shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, And hatch, and gather under her shadow : There shall the vultures also be gathered, Every one with her mate.
Side 10 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: And he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Side 10 - Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Is wisdom no more in Teman ? is counsel perished from the prudent ? I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him the time that I will visit him.
Side 10 - If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
Side 10 - They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof ; and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Side 11 - Sea,) within three days' journey, upwards of thirty ruined towns absolutely deserted. Several of them have large edifices, with columns that may have belonged to ancient temples, or at least to Greek churches. The Arabs sometimes make use of them to fold their cattle in ; but in general avoid them on account of the enormous scorpions with which they swarm.
Side 10 - O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest the height of the hill : though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord. Also Edom shall be a desolation ; every one that goeth by shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
Side 27 - ... hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Side 11 - The Idumeans, from whom the Jews only took their ports at intervals, must have found in them a great source of wealth and population. It even appears that the Idumeans rivalled the Tyrians, who also possessed a town, the name of which is unknown, on the coast of Hedjaz, in the desert of Tih, and the city of Faran, and, without doubt, El-Tor, which served it by way of port. From this place the caravans might reach Palestine and Judea...
Side 10 - I met in Egypt, would have persuaded me that it was impracticable, and that he having had the same intention himself, after having been detained in hope five weeks, was compelled to relinquish his design. While I was yet ruminating over this scrap of paper, the Superior paid me a morning visit; he also said it was impossible, but at length promised to search for guides. I had already endeavoured to persuade those who had r Burckhardt's Syria, p. 421. • Ibid. p. 4001 Letters from Palestine, vol....

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