Sinai and Palestine: In Connection with Their HistoryJ. Murray, 1856 - 548 Seiten |
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... rocky hills on the east of the town , commands the whole . The town is a vast expanse of brown , broken only by occasional interludes of palms and sycomores , and by the countless minarets . About half a dozen larger buildings , mosques ...
... rocky hills on the east of the town , commands the whole . The town is a vast expanse of brown , broken only by occasional interludes of palms and sycomores , and by the countless minarets . About half a dozen larger buildings , mosques ...
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... rocky wall still continues on the eastern side , still called by the names of successive Sheykhs or hermits who have lived or died on its desert heights - still perforated by the square holes which indicate ancient tombs . This eastern ...
... rocky wall still continues on the eastern side , still called by the names of successive Sheykhs or hermits who have lived or died on its desert heights - still perforated by the square holes which indicate ancient tombs . This eastern ...
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... rocky and bare as themselves ; no human habitation visible , the stir of the city wholly excluded ; such is - such always must have been the awful aspect of the resting - place of the Theban kings . Nothing that has ever been said about ...
... rocky and bare as themselves ; no human habitation visible , the stir of the city wholly excluded ; such is - such always must have been the awful aspect of the resting - place of the Theban kings . Nothing that has ever been said about ...
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... rocky islands , towering high above the shores ; strewn , far into the eastern Desert , far up the course of the Nile itself . These are the rocks which make , and are made by , the Cataract , -well so called , the rapid which " breaks ...
... rocky islands , towering high above the shores ; strewn , far into the eastern Desert , far up the course of the Nile itself . These are the rocks which make , and are made by , the Cataract , -well so called , the rapid which " breaks ...
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... rocky knolls , and the feathery tresses of the palm , through the vista , the massive walls and colonnades , irregular and perverse in all their proportions , but still grand from their size , are in the highest degree peculiar ...
... rocky knolls , and the feathery tresses of the palm , through the vista , the massive walls and colonnades , irregular and perverse in all their proportions , but still grand from their size , are in the highest degree peculiar ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Akaba amongst ancient Arabah Arabs ascent Bedouin Beth-horon Bethel Bethlehem called cave Chapter Christian cliffs colour Dead Sea deep descended described Desert Deut east eastern Egypt Egyptian En-gedi encampment Ephraim Esdraelon Galilee Gebel Mousa Gerizim Gibeah Gibeon granite Greek green Gulf of Akaba Hebrew Hebron height hills Holy inhabitants Israel Israelites Jericho Jerusalem Jewish Jordan Josephus Josh Joshua Judæa Judah Kings lake land Lebanon Lord Michmash Moab modern Moses mosque Mount Mount Hor mountains Mussulman natural Nile northern Olivet Palestine palms pass passage peculiar Peninsula Petra Philistines Phoenicia probably Prophet range ravine Red Sea river rock rocky round ruins sanctuary scene scenery seen sepulchres Serbâl Shechem Sheykh shores side sight Sinai southern spot spring stone stream summit Syria Temple terebinth Testament tion tomb tradition travellers trees tribes valley village Wâdy walls western whole wild wilderness
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 306 - And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
Seite 151 - Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near...
Seite 135 - Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Seite xiii - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Seite 352 - Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Seite 177 - And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Seite 177 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Seite 259 - So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor ; but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
Seite 155 - The Oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Seite 188 - Blessed of the LORD be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath, And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, And for the precious things put forth by the moon, And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the lasting hills...