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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... Moslems , and the few who had ever accomplished the feat had done so at great personal risk . " The first European who ever went there was Burckhardt , in 1814 , " said Dr. Bronson . " He prepared himself for his travels by studying the ...
... Moslems , and the few who had ever accomplished the feat had done so at great personal risk . " The first European who ever went there was Burckhardt , in 1814 , " said Dr. Bronson . " He prepared himself for his travels by studying the ...
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... Moslem . Captain Burton went to Mecca in 1852 , and since his time the city has been visited by Malt- zan , Palgrave ... Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to their religion for ...
... Moslem . Captain Burton went to Mecca in 1852 , and since his time the city has been visited by Malt- zan , Palgrave ... Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to their religion for ...
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... Moslem returns from his journey he is permitted to wear a green turban for the rest of his life . The pilgrimage is an easier matter than it used to be , as there are steamers running from Suez and other points to carry the pilgrims to ...
... Moslem returns from his journey he is permitted to wear a green turban for the rest of his life . The pilgrimage is an easier matter than it used to be , as there are steamers running from Suez and other points to carry the pilgrims to ...
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... Moslems have no knowledge of the story , and say it must have been invented by a Christian . The tomb ist in one side of the building , but no one is allowed to look upon it , not even a Moslem ; the most that can be seen is the curtain ...
... Moslems have no knowledge of the story , and say it must have been invented by a Christian . The tomb ist in one side of the building , but no one is allowed to look upon it , not even a Moslem ; the most that can be seen is the curtain ...
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... Moslems are rigid enforcers of the rule prohibiting you to wear your boots inside a mosque . The principal attraction in the mosque was a group to whom a mollah , or priest , was delivering a lecture . The speaker stood in a high pulpit ...
... Moslems are rigid enforcers of the rule prohibiting you to wear your boots inside a mosque . The principal attraction in the mosque was a group to whom a mollah , or priest , was delivering a lecture . The speaker stood in a high pulpit ...
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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.