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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Side 113
... probably because his country was too plain and too narrow for defence against an enemy . In this principality is Muakeb , a city of a fingular conftruction ; its houfes are all cut out in the natural rock . From this detail , it appears ...
... probably because his country was too plain and too narrow for defence against an enemy . In this principality is Muakeb , a city of a fingular conftruction ; its houfes are all cut out in the natural rock . From this detail , it appears ...
Side 164
... probably still more ancient , which was fhown me by a Dutch renegado , and of which the characters bore a great refemblance to thofe of the infcriptions among the ruins of Perfepolis . A Maronite of Mount Libanus related to me , that ...
... probably still more ancient , which was fhown me by a Dutch renegado , and of which the characters bore a great refemblance to thofe of the infcriptions among the ruins of Perfepolis . A Maronite of Mount Libanus related to me , that ...
Side 185
... probably a wild afs , who , in confequence of living in a state of independence , acquires fome varieties of form , which the Arabs , in their unskilfulness in natural history , mistake for the characteristics of a different animal ...
... probably a wild afs , who , in confequence of living in a state of independence , acquires fome varieties of form , which the Arabs , in their unskilfulness in natural history , mistake for the characteristics of a different animal ...
Side 410
... probably is the rivulet , called by the writers of the holy war the river of Rama , and may be the fame as Gaafh * , mentioned in the holy fcripture , and probably is that river which Reland fuppofes to fall into the fea , about half a ...
... probably is the rivulet , called by the writers of the holy war the river of Rama , and may be the fame as Gaafh * , mentioned in the holy fcripture , and probably is that river which Reland fuppofes to fall into the fea , about half a ...
Side 413
... probably defigned for training up young perfons to the war , the upper market , and the stairs that went down from the city of David , as may be supposed to the valley of the pool of Siloe . The vale to the north of Mount Sion , I take ...
... probably defigned for training up young perfons to the war , the upper market , and the stairs that went down from the city of David , as may be supposed to the valley of the pool of Siloe . The vale to the north of Mount Sion , I take ...
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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...