The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Part Fourth, Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Egypt and the Holy LandHarper & 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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... Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to their religion for him to enter their sacred city - the birthplace of the founder of their religion and he would have been stoned or ...
... Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to their religion for him to enter their sacred city - the birthplace of the founder of their religion and he would have been stoned or ...
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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 is 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 is 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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Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land Thomas Wallace Knox Vista completa - 1882 |
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ancient Egypt ancient Egyptians Arabs backsheesh bank bath bazaars Bedouins Bethlehem boat boys building built Cairo called camels Canal carried cataract centuries Chapel Christian church Cloth convent covered Damascus Dead Sea desert Doctor Bronson says Doctor explained donkeys dragoman dynasty feet Frank and Fred friends Gate Girgeh Greek grotto hills Holy Land horses hour hundred inhabitants interesting Jaffa Jerusalem Jordan journey Karnak King lake looked Luxor Mar Saba miles modern Mohammed monks Moslems mosque Mount Mount of Olives Mount Tabor mountains mummy Nabulus natives Nazareth Nile Palestine party passed pilgrims plain pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramleh Red Sea ride river road rock ruins sand scene sculptures seen shadoof side soon sphinxes spot steamer stone streets Suez tell temple Thebes things thousand Tiberias told tombs Tower town travellers Valley village walk walls youths
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Página 347 - 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 346 - 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 101 - 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.
Página 291 - OH ! weep for those that wept by Babel's stream, Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream : Weep for the harp of Judah's broken shell ; Mourn — where their God hath dwelt the godless dwell!
Página 404 - 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.
Página 345 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Página 131 - Name, especially in the formula of the confession of faith: There is no God but God and Mohammed is the Prophet of God.
Página 427 - TIM AND TIP; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY AND A DOG. By JAMES OTIS.
Página 400 - Palestine, were its dependencies. ] 0. Damas'cus is one of the oldest cities in the world. It is mentioned in Scripture as early as the days of Abraham, whose servant, Eliezer, was born there. (Gen. xv. 2.) It was besieged and taken by David, and afterwards by Jerobo'am. It was captured by Tig'lath-pile'ser, 740 BC 11. It is noted as the place where Paul received his sight, after the vision which he saw in...