The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of two youths in a journey to Egypt and the Holy Land. Part fourthHarper & brothers, 1883 - 438 páginas |
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... Doctor joined them as the story of the occupation of Perim was concluded . There was a laugh over the shrewdness of the English officer and the discomfiture of the French one , and then the conversa- tion turned to the Red Sea . " It ...
... Doctor joined them as the story of the occupation of Perim was concluded . There was a laugh over the shrewdness of the English officer and the discomfiture of the French one , and then the conversa- tion turned to the Red Sea . " It ...
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... Doctor told them the jour- ney was out of the question , as no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred city of the Moslems , and the few who had ever accomplished the feat had done so at great personal risk . " The first European who ...
... Doctor told them the jour- ney was out of the question , as no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred city of the Moslems , and the few who had ever accomplished the feat had done so at great personal risk . " The first European who ...
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... Doctor ; " but if you speak to any of them about it , they will possibly reply that Christian people have put to death those who did not believe in their religion . They might quote a good many occurrences in various parts of Europe in ...
... Doctor ; " but if you speak to any of them about it , they will possibly reply that Christian people have put to death those who did not believe in their religion . They might quote a good many occurrences in various parts of Europe in ...
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... is about two hundred and fifty miles north of Mecca , " said the Doctor , " and is only a third the. CAPTAIN BURTON IN NATIVE DRESS . ENCAMPMENT OF PILGRIMS AT MOUNT ARAFAT , NEAR MECCA . Captain Burton in Native Dress The Tamboora 63.
... is about two hundred and fifty miles north of Mecca , " said the Doctor , " and is only a third the. CAPTAIN BURTON IN NATIVE DRESS . ENCAMPMENT OF PILGRIMS AT MOUNT ARAFAT , NEAR MECCA . Captain Burton in Native Dress The Tamboora 63.
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... doctor came on board , and was soon convinced that no reason existed VIEW OF MEDINA ( FROM A DRAWING BY A NATIVE ARTIST ) . why the passengers , who chose to do so , might not go on shore . Doctor Bronson and his young friends bargained ...
... doctor came on board , and was soon convinced that no reason existed VIEW OF MEDINA ( FROM A DRAWING BY A NATIVE ARTIST ) . why the passengers , who chose to do so , might not go on shore . Doctor Bronson and his young friends bargained ...
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Página 361 - Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Página 360 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Página 113 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Página 113 - And thou hast walked about (how strange a story !) In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous ! 2.
Página 408 - Are not Pharpar and Abana, rivers of Damascus, better than all the rivers of Israel?" Your objections to such an attempt, my dear Doctor, were, you may remember, two-fold. You insisted upon the advantages which the Scotsman possessed, from the very recent existence of that state of society in which his scene was to be laid. Many now alive, you remarked, well remembered...
Página 416 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.