Idumaea: With a Survey of Arabia and the ArabiansReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pagini |
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Pagina 10
... hundred miles , it may be regarded as one great sea of sand . Its mighty rocks seem like waves , whose tumultuous waters had been suddenly arrested in the midst of a storm , and congealed in all fantastic shapes into granite . " Araby ...
... hundred miles , it may be regarded as one great sea of sand . Its mighty rocks seem like waves , whose tumultuous waters had been suddenly arrested in the midst of a storm , and congealed in all fantastic shapes into granite . " Araby ...
Pagina 12
... hundred miles . On the west this valley is bounded by a lofty line of cliffs , forming an abutment of the Desert of Sinai , which lies at a general elevation of twelve or fifteen hundred feet above its bed . On the east the mountains of ...
... hundred miles . On the west this valley is bounded by a lofty line of cliffs , forming an abutment of the Desert of Sinai , which lies at a general elevation of twelve or fifteen hundred feet above its bed . On the east the mountains of ...
Pagina 13
... hundred feet high , interrupted only by the narrow Wady el - Jeib ; and the elevation of the Arabah , fifty or sixty miles further south , is considerably higher . The natural conclusion is , that there had always existed a lake between ...
... hundred feet high , interrupted only by the narrow Wady el - Jeib ; and the elevation of the Arabah , fifty or sixty miles further south , is considerably higher . The natural conclusion is , that there had always existed a lake between ...
Pagina 16
... hundred feet , and those on the east two thousand to twenty - five hundred feet . The valley is full of sand drifts as far as the eye can reach , the sand affording here and there sufficient nourishment to tracts of thin grass . The ...
... hundred feet , and those on the east two thousand to twenty - five hundred feet . The valley is full of sand drifts as far as the eye can reach , the sand affording here and there sufficient nourishment to tracts of thin grass . The ...
Pagina 18
... hundred miles . Nor does the geography of the globe furnish a line better defined by natural marks . There is both rampart and fosse . On the one hand , we have the rectilinear lochs and lakes , with an average profundity of depth more ...
... hundred miles . Nor does the geography of the globe furnish a line better defined by natural marks . There is both rampart and fosse . On the one hand , we have the rectilinear lochs and lakes , with an average profundity of depth more ...
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Pagina 191 - Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places ; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.
Pagina 192 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it they fell on their faces and they said, "The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
Pagina 184 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Pagina 159 - Thy terribleness hath deceived thee and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that boldest the height of the hill. Though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.
Pagina 79 - And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan ; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Pagina 23 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Pagina 166 - In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats...
Pagina 79 - Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Pagina 167 - And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night : for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Pagina 83 - Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers: 16 And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border.