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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... JORDAN , JERICHO , AND JERUSALEM . - THE VALLEY OF THE JORDAN 342 CHAPTER XXVII . FROM JERUSALEM TO NABULUS . - HISTORIC PLACES ON THE ROUTE . CHAPTER XXVIII . 355 FROM NABULUS TO NAZARETH , SAMARIA , JENIN , AND THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON ...
... JORDAN , JERICHO , AND JERUSALEM . - THE VALLEY OF THE JORDAN 342 CHAPTER XXVII . FROM JERUSALEM TO NABULUS . - HISTORIC PLACES ON THE ROUTE . CHAPTER XXVIII . 355 FROM NABULUS TO NAZARETH , SAMARIA , JENIN , AND THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON ...
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... Jordan ... Passage of the Israelites . Map of the Jordan 347 Head - spring of the Jordan near Hasbeiyah . 405 347 Map of the Sources of the Jordan . . . 348 Terebinth - tree at Banias .. 406 406 Recent Aspect of the Plain of Jericho ...
... Jordan ... Passage of the Israelites . Map of the Jordan 347 Head - spring of the Jordan near Hasbeiyah . 405 347 Map of the Sources of the Jordan . . . 348 Terebinth - tree at Banias .. 406 406 Recent Aspect of the Plain of Jericho ...
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... Jordan , the Mountain of Offence , ' the Hill of Evil Counsel , ' the heights of Bethlehem , and other places named in Scripture were pointed out by the guide . In fact , the view from the Mount of Olives includes so much of which we ...
... Jordan , the Mountain of Offence , ' the Hill of Evil Counsel , ' the heights of Bethlehem , and other places named in Scripture were pointed out by the guide . In fact , the view from the Mount of Olives includes so much of which we ...
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... Jordan , and before one of them can leave the city another must come there to take his place . In case a traveller under escort is robbed , the sheik must make good his loss . " The price of a safe - conduct to the Jordan and Dead Sea ...
... Jordan , and before one of them can leave the city another must come there to take his place . In case a traveller under escort is robbed , the sheik must make good his loss . " The price of a safe - conduct to the Jordan and Dead Sea ...
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... Jordan on their way to Jerusalem . A tall palm - tree bends over the summit of the roof of one of the towers . It is said to have been planted by St. Saba in person , but , whether this be so or not , the tree is certainly of very great ...
... Jordan on their way to Jerusalem . A tall palm - tree bends over the summit of the roof of one of the towers . It is said to have been planted by St. Saba in person , but , whether this be so or not , the tree is certainly of very great ...
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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.