Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: Derived Principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, Traditions, Forms of Speech, Antiquities, Climate, and Works of Art and Literature, of the Eastern Nations ; Emodying All that is Valuable in the Works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the Most Celebrated Oriental Travellers ; Embracing Also the Subject of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, as Exhibited by Keith and Others ...George Bush Brattleboro ̓Typographic Company, 1839 - 656 |
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Strona 15
... feet above the level of the sea , ( the height of the top of Mount Blanc , ) and yet the summit of Ararat lay far above us . I do not think that any insurmountable obstacle could have impeded our farther progress , but to spend the few ...
... feet above the level of the sea , ( the height of the top of Mount Blanc , ) and yet the summit of Ararat lay far above us . I do not think that any insurmountable obstacle could have impeded our farther progress , but to spend the few ...
Strona 16
... feet above the convent , and , adding to that the height of the latter , the top of Ararat is 16,254 Paris feet , nearly five wersts , above the level of the sea . While the professor was engaged in his observations , the dea- con ...
... feet above the convent , and , adding to that the height of the latter , the top of Ararat is 16,254 Paris feet , nearly five wersts , above the level of the sea . While the professor was engaged in his observations , the dea- con ...
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... feet . I did not care to venture where it was deep , though these effects would probably have been more remarkable farther in . They have a notion that if any one attempted to swim over , it would burn up the body ; and they say the ...
... feet . I did not care to venture where it was deep , though these effects would probably have been more remarkable farther in . They have a notion that if any one attempted to swim over , it would burn up the body ; and they say the ...
Strona 23
... feet , for the place on which he stood was holy ground . In imitation of this memorable example , the priests officiated in the temple barefoot ; and all the orientals , under the guidance of tradition , put off their shoes when they ...
... feet , for the place on which he stood was holy ground . In imitation of this memorable example , the priests officiated in the temple barefoot ; and all the orientals , under the guidance of tradition , put off their shoes when they ...
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... feet . How often , in passing through a village , may we see this grateful office performed for the weary traveller ! As the people neither wear shoes nor stockings , and as the sandal is principally for the defence of the sole of the ...
... feet . How often , in passing through a village , may we see this grateful office performed for the weary traveller ! As the people neither wear shoes nor stockings , and as the sandal is principally for the defence of the sole of the ...
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Strona 264 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Strona 281 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Strona 29 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Strona 27 - And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Strona 257 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Strona 295 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Strona 47 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Strona 124 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Strona 63 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Strona 269 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.