Sacred Streams; Or: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the BibleStringer & Townsend, 1852 - 360 pagini |
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... hundred tributaries , dilating into the vast estuary , bearing the proud fleets of commerce and war , and almost rivalling in grandeur the ocean into which it is pouring its everlasting tribute of waters . Sweet is it , in the heat of ...
... hundred tributaries , dilating into the vast estuary , bearing the proud fleets of commerce and war , and almost rivalling in grandeur the ocean into which it is pouring its everlasting tribute of waters . Sweet is it , in the heat of ...
Pagina 17
... hundred and fifty miles from its mouth , is here a noble river , broad , deep , and ra- pid . The soil is com- posed of clay fit for the making of bricks ; and there are in the Bricks from Babylon . vicinity fountains which throw up ...
... hundred and fifty miles from its mouth , is here a noble river , broad , deep , and ra- pid . The soil is com- posed of clay fit for the making of bricks ; and there are in the Bricks from Babylon . vicinity fountains which throw up ...
Pagina 18
... hundred and twenty stadia , or fifteen miles ; and the tower as having for its basement a cube of solid masonry measuring a furlong on every side . On this a smaller story is erected , and on this another , until eight , successively ...
... hundred and twenty stadia , or fifteen miles ; and the tower as having for its basement a cube of solid masonry measuring a furlong on every side . On this a smaller story is erected , and on this another , until eight , successively ...
Pagina 26
... hundreds of camels rise above the general level , and their hunched backs are loaded with tents , poles , the larger articles of furniture , and various packages of baggage , so as often to project far on each side . On the very summit ...
... hundreds of camels rise above the general level , and their hunched backs are loaded with tents , poles , the larger articles of furniture , and various packages of baggage , so as often to project far on each side . On the very summit ...
Pagina 42
... hundred massive gates of brass , at regular distances , gave ingress and egress to the thousands that were constantly pouring in and out of the city ; each of these gates was the extremity of a street , which traversed the city in a ...
... hundred massive gates of brass , at regular distances , gave ingress and egress to the thousands that were constantly pouring in and out of the city ; each of these gates was the extremity of a street , which traversed the city in a ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Vizualizare completă - 1883 |
Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Vizualizare completă - 1850 |
Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Vizualizare completă - 1850 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
Abimelech Amorites ancient apostasy appearance Arabs Aroer Assyrian Babylon banks Bashan beasts beautiful blessed brook called Canaan captivity chariot Christ course David Dead Sea death deep desert desolation Divine doubtless earth Elijah enemies Esar-haddon Eshcol Euphrates evil faith feet fertile flocks flows fords fruit gates Gerar glorious glory God's grace groves hand hath head heart heaven heavenly Hebrew hills Holy honour host idolatry inhabitants Israel Jabbok Jarmuk Jehovah Jerusalem Jordan Judah Kidron king kingdom lake Lake of Gennesaret land length lofty Lord Jesus magnificent Medes mighty miles Moab monarch mound mountains Nahor nations Nineveh palace Palestine passed Persian Philistines plain promised prophet ravine region reign righteousness rise river rock ruins scene seen servant side Sisera Spirit stones stream summit thee thou thousand throne Tiberias Tigris traveller trees tribes unto valley Wady walls whole wild word
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Pagina 157 - Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground ; and it practised, and prospered.
Pagina 56 - It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, And dragons in their pleasant palaces: And her time is near to come, And her days shall...
Pagina 90 - Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Pagina 120 - And though it is said, this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality...
Pagina 303 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.
Pagina 250 - O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee...
Pagina 3 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Pagina 143 - Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east : and, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters : and the earth shined with his glory.
Pagina 157 - And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Pagina 144 - Come, then, and, added to thy many crowns, Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth, Thou who alone art worthy ! It was thine By ancient covenant, ere Nature's birth ; And thou hast made it thine by purchase since, And overpaid its value with thy blood.