Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 2J. Ritchie, 1808 - Africa, North |
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... Arabs call it , commences a little to the southward of the Ma- guzzel , and ends at Sumrah ; extending itself all the way from the sea to the eastward , sometimes five , sometimes six or seven leagues , till it is ter- minated by a long ...
... Arabs call it , commences a little to the southward of the Ma- guzzel , and ends at Sumrah ; extending itself all the way from the sea to the eastward , sometimes five , sometimes six or seven leagues , till it is ter- minated by a long ...
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... Arabs ) we were sometimes obstructed , or at least had diffi- culty enough to force our way through this rich champain ; which , through neglect and want of culture , was so thickly planted with the more luxuriantly growing plants ...
... Arabs ) we were sometimes obstructed , or at least had diffi- culty enough to force our way through this rich champain ; which , through neglect and want of culture , was so thickly planted with the more luxuriantly growing plants ...
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... Arabs , such as we still meet with at xv or xx miles distance from Kairo , in the road to the Red Sea . The rendezvous of the caravan which con- ducted us to Suez , was at one of these Dou - wars ; at the same time we saw another at ...
... Arabs , such as we still meet with at xv or xx miles distance from Kairo , in the road to the Red Sea . The rendezvous of the caravan which con- ducted us to Suez , was at one of these Dou - wars ; at the same time we saw another at ...
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... Arabs of their having passed through it ; as it is also called Baideah * , from the new and unheard of miracle that was wrought near it , by dividing the Red Sea , and destroying therein Pharaoh , his chariots , and his horsemen . The ...
... Arabs of their having passed through it ; as it is also called Baideah * , from the new and unheard of miracle that was wrought near it , by dividing the Red Sea , and destroying therein Pharaoh , his chariots , and his horsemen . The ...
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... Arabs , agreeably to the interpretation of Kolzum , their name for this sea , preserve a tradition that a numerous host was formerly drowned at this place ; occasioned , no doubt , by what is related Ex . xiv . 30. that the Israelites ...
... Arabs , agreeably to the interpretation of Kolzum , their name for this sea , preserve a tradition that a numerous host was formerly drowned at this place ; occasioned , no doubt , by what is related Ex . xiv . 30. that the Israelites ...
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Page 341 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, As though they were not hers; Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 267 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Page 89 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 54 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 23 - Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Page 141 - But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped...
Page 345 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding. What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
Page 236 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Page 38 - Ab Hadriani temporibus usque ad imperium Constantini, per annos circiter centum octoginta, in loco resurrectionis simulacrum Jovis, in crucis rupe statua ex marmore Veneris a gentibus posita colebatur, existimantibus persecutionis auctoribus, quod tollerent nobis fidem resurrectionis et crucis, si loca sancta per idola polluissent.
Page 109 - It is a block of granite marble, about six yards square, lying tottering as it were, and loose in the middle of the valley, and seems to have formerly belonged to Mount Sinai, which hangs in a variety of precipices all over this plain.