Idumaea: With a Survey of Arabia and the ArabiansReligious Tract Society, 1799 - 192 pagini |
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Pagina 20
... looking at Arabia as a whole , it may fitly be described as one vast desert of arid and barren plains , where the oases , or " spots of living green , " ( probably a corruption of the Arabic word ouady , a valley or watercourse ...
... looking at Arabia as a whole , it may fitly be described as one vast desert of arid and barren plains , where the oases , or " spots of living green , " ( probably a corruption of the Arabic word ouady , a valley or watercourse ...
Pagina 118
... looking set of miscreants they had yet seen , seemed not unwilling to exercise this power , and waited apparently only for a signal to plunder them outright . But the old sheikh was more politic , and kept them in check . Rather than ...
... looking set of miscreants they had yet seen , seemed not unwilling to exercise this power , and waited apparently only for a signal to plunder them outright . But the old sheikh was more politic , and kept them in check . Rather than ...
Pagina 128
... looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God . ' " Captains Irby and Mangles , who were the first Europeans of modern times to ascend to the summit of Mount Hor , remark , that " an artist who would study rock scenery in ...
... looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God . ' " Captains Irby and Mangles , who were the first Europeans of modern times to ascend to the summit of Mount Hor , remark , that " an artist who would study rock scenery in ...
Pagina 134
... Looking across the Arabah towards the west , the prospect was not more cheering , except the small spots of verdure around two fountains . The mountains beyond presented a most uninviting and hideous aspect ; precipices and naked ...
... Looking across the Arabah towards the west , the prospect was not more cheering , except the small spots of verdure around two fountains . The mountains beyond presented a most uninviting and hideous aspect ; precipices and naked ...
Pagina 152
... looking down upon the scene below . The upper seat of the gallery measures about four hundred feet . This theatre could easily accommodate at a time five thousand of the votaries of pleasure . The cliffs on each side are full of tombs ...
... looking down upon the scene below . The upper seat of the gallery measures about four hundred feet . This theatre could easily accommodate at a time five thousand of the votaries of pleasure . The cliffs on each side are full of tombs ...
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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.