Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, Bind 1Harper, 1837 - 264 sider |
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... seemed to be giving " premonitory symptoms " of an intention to chop about , and towards noon it came in dead ahead . After my self - complacent observations of yes- terday , I would hardly credit it ; but when it became so strong that ...
... seemed to be giving " premonitory symptoms " of an intention to chop about , and towards noon it came in dead ahead . After my self - complacent observations of yes- terday , I would hardly credit it ; but when it became so strong that ...
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... seemed bent upon having something to do with me , even if they carried me over piecemeal ; but I selected two of the strongest , with little more than one eye between them , and keeping the rest off as well as I could , was borne over ...
... seemed bent upon having something to do with me , even if they carried me over piecemeal ; but I selected two of the strongest , with little more than one eye between them , and keeping the rest off as well as I could , was borne over ...
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... seemed to have grown to the size of mountains . The base of the great pyramid is about eight hundred feet square , covering a surface of about eleven acres , ac- cording to the best measurement , and four hundred and sixty - one feet ...
... seemed to have grown to the size of mountains . The base of the great pyramid is about eight hundred feet square , covering a surface of about eleven acres , ac- cording to the best measurement , and four hundred and sixty - one feet ...
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... seemed to carry with me an influence that chilled the atmosphere . In the morn- ing , before I rose , Paul brought in to me a piece of ice as thick as a pane of glass , made during the night ; a most extraordinary , and to me unexpected ...
... seemed to carry with me an influence that chilled the atmosphere . In the morn- ing , before I rose , Paul brought in to me a piece of ice as thick as a pane of glass , made during the night ; a most extraordinary , and to me unexpected ...
Side 56
... seemed to be completely carried away by their grief , and with loud cries , tearing their hair and beating their breasts , threw out their arms towards the corpse , and prayed , and wept , and then turned away with shrieks piteous ...
... seemed to be completely carried away by their grief , and with loud cries , tearing their hair and beating their breasts , threw out their arms towards the corpse , and prayed , and wept , and then turned away with shrieks piteous ...
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Side 160 - Noph ; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt. It shall be the basest of the nations, neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations : for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
Side 132 - So I went in and saw ; and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Side 131 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
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Side 132 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.