A Journal of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræ, and the Holy Land: During 1841-2 |
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... feet chains of different lengths and dimensions . This is a penance which these poor victims of credulity inflict upon themselves for the commission of some offence , or the fulfilment of a vow they have made in time of affliction . It ...
... feet chains of different lengths and dimensions . This is a penance which these poor victims of credulity inflict upon themselves for the commission of some offence , or the fulfilment of a vow they have made in time of affliction . It ...
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... feet from the walls , and varying from six to twenty in length . These awkward protuberances are some- times open and sometimes covered on the top , and are supplied with glass windows which can be open- ed or shut at pleasure . Though ...
... feet from the walls , and varying from six to twenty in length . These awkward protuberances are some- times open and sometimes covered on the top , and are supplied with glass windows which can be open- ed or shut at pleasure . Though ...
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... feet long and three inches in the calibre . Several parts of the walls are covered with various kinds of ancient warlike instruments , such as cross- bows , maces , javelins , battle - axes , & c . A man of feeling cannot gaze upon ...
... feet long and three inches in the calibre . Several parts of the walls are covered with various kinds of ancient warlike instruments , such as cross- bows , maces , javelins , battle - axes , & c . A man of feeling cannot gaze upon ...
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... feet , when we de- scended some twenty stone steps . We then turned to the right , and proceeding a few yards entered the grotto or cave . It is round , or nearly so , arching to the top . At any part of it a person may stand erect ...
... feet , when we de- scended some twenty stone steps . We then turned to the right , and proceeding a few yards entered the grotto or cave . It is round , or nearly so , arching to the top . At any part of it a person may stand erect ...
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... crags above . At one moment the passage was five feet high , and at the next so low as to require a very humble posture . The first grotto we entered , bore some marks of hav- CATACOMBS . 25 ing once been a work - shop.
... crags above . At one moment the passage was five feet high , and at the next so low as to require a very humble posture . The first grotto we entered , bore some marks of hav- CATACOMBS . 25 ing once been a work - shop.
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Akabah Alexandria ancient appearance Arab village Arabs arrived ascended Atfe baggage beautiful Bedoin boat bucksheesh building Cairo called camels canal caravan chapel Christian church convent covered cross Dead Sea descended desert donkeys door dress dromedaries east Edom Egypt Egyptian Elath encamped English entered entire entrance Ezion-geber feet filthy gate governor Greek grotto hand Hassein Hebron hill Holy Land hour Idumea inhabitants Jerusalem Jews kind large number length lying Malta Mehemet Ali miles miserable Mohammedan monks morning mosque Mount Hor Mount Sinai mountain native nearly night Nile o'clock once Pacha passage passed Petra pilgrims plain Pompey's Pillar present Red Sea rock rods round ruins of Petra Saviour scenery seen Selim sepulchres sheik shore short distance side situated soon spot standing stone Suez summit tent tion tomb town travellers trees tribe Tueileb valley Waddy wall whole wind
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Page 194 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brimstone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 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.
Page 307 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 95 - Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?
Page 122 - And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, ' Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death...
Page 168 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; the screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
Page 146 - For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Page 168 - And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: And all their host shall fall down, As the leaf falleth off from the vine, And as a falling fig from the fig tree. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: Behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, And upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Page 168 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: And he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, And all her princes shall be nothing.
Page 95 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on then' right hand, and on their left.
Page 169 - Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read : no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate : for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.