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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... present , and to picture the lands of the Bible as they have appeared through many centuries down to our own time . If it shall be found that he has made a book which combines amusement and instruction for the youth of our land , he ...
... present , and to picture the lands of the Bible as they have appeared through many centuries down to our own time . If it shall be found that he has made a book which combines amusement and instruction for the youth of our land , he ...
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... present it is a town of ten or twelve thousand people , the majority of whom are sup- ported , directly or indirectly , by the Canal or the railway . There has been a town of some sort at this point for more than three thousand years ...
... present it is a town of ten or twelve thousand people , the majority of whom are sup- ported , directly or indirectly , by the Canal or the railway . There has been a town of some sort at this point for more than three thousand years ...
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... present it is very generally broken down , and the hated infidel may visit the mosques of the principal cities of Egypt and Turkey , provided he pays for the privilege . They returned to the hotel in season for dinner . PREACHING IN A ...
... present it is very generally broken down , and the hated infidel may visit the mosques of the principal cities of Egypt and Turkey , provided he pays for the privilege . They returned to the hotel in season for dinner . PREACHING IN A ...
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... present railway follows the banks of the Mari- time Canal as far as Ismailia , and thence it goes along the Fresh - Water Canal , of which I will tell you . " The idea of a canal to connect the Mediterranean and Red Seas is . by no ...
... present railway follows the banks of the Mari- time Canal as far as Ismailia , and thence it goes along the Fresh - Water Canal , of which I will tell you . " The idea of a canal to connect the Mediterranean and Red Seas is . by no ...
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... present Fresh - Water Canal to the head of the Bitter Lake . The Red Sea then extended to the Bitter Lake , and the shallow places were dredged out sufficient to allow the passage of the small craft that were in use in those days . The ...
... present Fresh - Water Canal to the head of the Bitter Lake . The Red Sea then extended to the Bitter Lake , and the shallow places were dredged out sufficient to allow the passage of the small craft that were in use in those days . The ...
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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.