Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully Illustrated by Original Drawings, Colored from NatureParry & McMillan, 1860 - 164 pagini |
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Pagina 11
... speak of innocence and love with looks which affect our hearts more rapidly through our eyes than could words however skilfully presented . And on the faces of little flowers how plainly can we read thoughts of beauty , of modesty , and ...
... speak of innocence and love with looks which affect our hearts more rapidly through our eyes than could words however skilfully presented . And on the faces of little flowers how plainly can we read thoughts of beauty , of modesty , and ...
Pagina 13
... speaks of plants and small flowers which bloomed so near to the Polar regions that gloomy piles of ice lay on the ground as their companions during the entire year . Some , with a remarkable fitness to all the peculiarities of the ...
... speaks of plants and small flowers which bloomed so near to the Polar regions that gloomy piles of ice lay on the ground as their companions during the entire year . Some , with a remarkable fitness to all the peculiarities of the ...
Pagina 26
... speak , they would immediately tell why it is that so small a quantity of phos- phorus or silica in the soil was necessary to their existence . Our eyes form but a small part of our bodies ; but their loss would occasion injury to the ...
... speak , they would immediately tell why it is that so small a quantity of phos- phorus or silica in the soil was necessary to their existence . Our eyes form but a small part of our bodies ; but their loss would occasion injury to the ...
Pagina 28
... speaks of the chief butler and the wine and grapes in Egypt . ( Gen. xl . ) But history and facts were against the statement . The Greek his- torian Herodotus , who wrote of Egypt more than four hun- dred years before the time of our ...
... speaks of the chief butler and the wine and grapes in Egypt . ( Gen. xl . ) But history and facts were against the statement . The Greek his- torian Herodotus , who wrote of Egypt more than four hun- dred years before the time of our ...
Pagina 30
... speaks . Josephus tells us " that the balsam for which Judea was so famous came from the Queen of Sheba , who presented a root of it to Solomon . " ( Antiq . lib . viii . c . 6. ) Cambyses introduced the peach into Egypt , ( Maillet's ...
... speaks . Josephus tells us " that the balsam for which Judea was so famous came from the Queen of Sheba , who presented a root of it to Solomon . " ( Antiq . lib . viii . c . 6. ) Cambyses introduced the peach into Egypt , ( Maillet's ...
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Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully ... Henry Stafford Osborn Vizualizare completă - 1860 |
Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully ... Henry Stafford Osborn Vizualizare completă - 1861 |
Plants of the Holy Land: With Their Fruits and Flowers, Beautifully ... Henry Stafford Osborn Vizualizare completă - 1860 |
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allusion aloë aloes ancient Anethum anise appears Arabs barley bay-tree bears beauty bitter blossoms botanical bramble brier bulrush calamus called cane cockle color common coriander cultivation cummin delicate East eaten Egypt Egyptian feet flax floating flourished fragrance gardens garlic gathered gourd grain grapes green grew grows growth Hasselquist Hebrew hemlock Hence Herodotus Holy Land hyssop inches Isaiah Israelites Jericho Jerusalem Jews Judea kind Lake of Tiberias leaves Lebanon LILIACEÆ linen Linn little plant mentioned Mount Tabor myrrh native noticed occurs onion onithogalum Palestine Paliurus pannag paper-reed papyrus passage perfume petals places plains pleasant Pliny pollen pomegranate probably prophet reed referred root Rosa Centifolia rose Saviour Scripture seed seems Sheep's Fescue shrub soil Solomon Song of Solomon speaks specimen spikenard spoken stem supposed sweet Syria thistle thorns Tiberias traveller trees UMBELLIFERÆ varieties vine vineyards wheat whence wild wine word translated yellow
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Pagina 57 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Pagina 156 - The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife : and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
Pagina 73 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Pagina 97 - Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.' For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Pagina 45 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Pagina 93 - And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage : for they knew them not.
Pagina 109 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Pagina 73 - Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Pagina 96 - Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
Pagina 58 - And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.