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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... Rock Partridge . 399 An Arab Skirmish in the Land of Moab ... Bathing - place of the Pilgrims ( from Thom- son's ... Rocks 426 370 The Fijeh Source of the Abana . 427 Women Working an Olive - press . 370 The Ruins of Baalbec .... 429 ...
... Rock Partridge . 399 An Arab Skirmish in the Land of Moab ... Bathing - place of the Pilgrims ( from Thom- son's ... Rocks 426 370 The Fijeh Source of the Abana . 427 Women Working an Olive - press . 370 The Ruins of Baalbec .... 429 ...
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... rock and sand , crowned with a signal station , from which the English flag was flying . As they were looking at the island , and thinking what a dreary place it must be to live in , one of the pas- sengers told the boys an amusing ...
... rock and sand , crowned with a signal station , from which the English flag was flying . As they were looking at the island , and thinking what a dreary place it must be to live in , one of the pas- sengers told the boys an amusing ...
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... rock , where it was necessary to do a great deal of blasting , and the last blast in this rock was made only a few hours before the opening of the Canal . " The cost of the work was nearly $ 100,000,000 , of which about one- MENSALEM ...
... rock , where it was necessary to do a great deal of blasting , and the last blast in this rock was made only a few hours before the opening of the Canal . " The cost of the work was nearly $ 100,000,000 , of which about one- MENSALEM ...
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... rock back and forward as they study , as the motion is thought to assist the memory . When a dozen boys are repeating their lessons all at once you can imagine what a din they keep up . The sentences they learn are from the Koran , and ...
... rock back and forward as they study , as the motion is thought to assist the memory . When a dozen boys are repeating their lessons all at once you can imagine what a din they keep up . The sentences they learn are from the Koran , and ...
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... rock ; the tradition is that it is the well into which Joseph was cast by his brethren , but it probably gets its name from Yoosef , ' which was the other name of Saladin the Conqueror . There was a well here when Saladin built the ...
... rock ; the tradition is that it is the well into which Joseph was cast by his brethren , but it probably gets its name from Yoosef , ' which was the other name of Saladin the Conqueror . There was a well here when Saladin built 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.