Letters on Palestine and Egypt: Written During Two Years' ResidenceA.T. Skillman, 1839 - 320 Seiten |
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Alexandria American Anti-Lebanon appearance Arabic ascended Baalbec banks Beyroot boat Bru-ma-nah building Cairo called canal church coast considerable consul covered cross cultivated Damascus Damietta Dead Sea distance district doubt east eastern world Egypt Engravings feet foot fruit gardens gate Greek ground Hebron hills holy houses Jaffa Jaffa gate Jerusalem Jordan Kedron kind lake land leaving Lebanon lies limestone looked Maronites miles missionaries Mohammedans Mount Lebanon Mount Moriah mountains nearly night Nile olive Palestine PARLEY'S Pasha passed pillars plain plain of Sharon pool pretty rain reached ridge rise river road rock ruins Rumla sand seen sepulchre shore side southeast spots spread spring stands stone Sun-neen things tion tomb tomb of Zechariah took town travellers trees usually valley vegetation vessel village walls whole wind Zebdane
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Seite 210 - At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Seite 170 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
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Seite 43 - Beyroot, have a peculiar method of baking bread. They dig a hole in the ground, about the size of a large bottle, put a thick coat of plaster around the side and on the bottom, and then let it dry. It is very much in the shape of a large pot, a little bulging in the middle. A fire is made in the bottom of it, of small branches, and kept up until the sides are well heated ; the flames are then suffered to go down, leaving the mass of coals in the bottom. They have the dough ready, and take a piece...
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Seite 173 - ... small mixed with the soil, it might be made very productive. There is very striking proof of this in some districts, as that about Hebron, which abounds with rock, and yet is covered with the most productive vineyards. As to such a rocky country being so spoken of in the days of the Patriarchs, I suppose that it was in truth, at that time, the finest of lands ; that the rock, which now lies bare in so many places, was then all covered with earth of the richest kind...
Seite 48 - ... it is turned up, a little like a sleigh. The board is about three inches in thickness. On the under side many holes are cut in it, from an inch and a half to two inches, and in these are fastened pieces of stone, flint, or iron ; these project nearly an inch from the face of the board and serve as teeth, to tear the heads of the grain in pieces. Oxen are fastened to the front of these boards, and driven round the floor, drawing this instrument after them. The driver of the oxen usually sits or...
Seite 207 - ... sons fell in battle against the Philistines. Bethshan, the village to which the Philistines fastened their bodies, lies a few miles north-east of the end of this hill. The battle seems to have begun on the plain, and when overcome, Israel fled to the hill, and then Saul and his sons fell. I could not but notice, while looking on the mount from the plain, how it accorded with the statement, that the chariots and horsemen followed hard after Saul on Mount Gilboa. The ascent from the plain is such...