A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World, Bind 10Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (etc.), 1811 |
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... miles over , is on the north and fouth fides ' immured with ridges of eafy and pleafant hills , ftill by degrees ftreightning the plain , till after fix or seven miles riding it grows not above a mile broad ; there we found the city ...
... miles over , is on the north and fouth fides ' immured with ridges of eafy and pleafant hills , ftill by degrees ftreightning the plain , till after fix or seven miles riding it grows not above a mile broad ; there we found the city ...
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... miles long , was from that city built by Philip , called Campi Philipici , famous for the Roman civil wars , there decided in two battles , the first between Cæfar and Pompey , the other between Augustus and Mark Anthony , against ...
... miles long , was from that city built by Philip , called Campi Philipici , famous for the Roman civil wars , there decided in two battles , the first between Cæfar and Pompey , the other between Augustus and Mark Anthony , against ...
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... miles from its entry into the fea ; once it was famous for all manner of luxury , now it wants nothing thereto but art and a foft government . Here we hired a boat for Grand Cairo , three hundred and fixty miles off . In five days we ...
... miles from its entry into the fea ; once it was famous for all manner of luxury , now it wants nothing thereto but art and a foft government . Here we hired a boat for Grand Cairo , three hundred and fixty miles off . In five days we ...
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... miles in circumference , 250 long , and 60 miles over where it is broadeft ; it is much celebrated by the ancients , who believed , as did their poets , that it was the country of the Gods , and that Jupiter was nurfed up there on Mount ...
... miles in circumference , 250 long , and 60 miles over where it is broadeft ; it is much celebrated by the ancients , who believed , as did their poets , that it was the country of the Gods , and that Jupiter was nurfed up there on Mount ...
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... miles about , eighty miles broad , and two hundred in length , and hath two capes ; that on the weft comprehends the cape of St. Epiphany , which the ancients called Acamante , and the cape of Srapano , or la Pointemeconta , or the cape ...
... miles about , eighty miles broad , and two hundred in length , and hath two capes ; that on the weft comprehends the cape of St. Epiphany , which the ancients called Acamante , and the cape of Srapano , or la Pointemeconta , or the cape ...
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Side 395 - Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD : or who shall rise up in His holy place ? Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart : and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.
Side 344 - It consisted of a plank of stone of about six inches in thickness, and in its other dimensions equalling the size of an ordinary door, or somewhat less. It was carved in such a manner, as to resemble a piece of wainscot. The stone of which it was made was visibly of...
Side 363 - Master, it is good for us to be here : let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias : not knowing what he said.
Side 334 - We were sufficiently instructed by experience, what the holy Psalmist means by the dew of Hermon, our tents being as wet with it, as if it had rained all night.
Side 675 - Sagar is a fine sheet of clear water, about half a mile long and a quarter of a mile broad.
Side 462 - It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the beard : even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing.
Side 390 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter : therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Side 322 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.
Side 311 - Jews ; being such proteuses in religion, that nobody was ever able to discover what shape or standard their consciences are really of. All that is certain concerning them is, that they make very much and good wine, and are great drinkers.
Side 336 - ... husband's embraces ? He said they were plants of a large leaf, bearing a certain sort of fruit, in shape resembling an apple, growing ripe in harvest, but of an ill savour, and not wholesome. But the virtue of them was to help conception, being laid under the genial bed. That the women were often wont to apply it, at this day, out of an opinion of its prolifick virtue. Of these plants I saw several afterwards in the way to Jerusalem...