Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: Derived Principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, Traditions, Forms of Speech, Antiquities, Climate, and Works of Art and Literature, of the Eastern Nations ; Emodying All that is Valuable in the Works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the Most Celebrated Oriental Travellers ; Embracing Also the Subject of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, as Exhibited by Keith and Others ...George Bush Brattleboro ̓Typographic Company, 1839 - 656 pages |
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... body ; and they say the same of boats , for there are none on the lake . " Van Egmont and Heyman state , that on swimming to some distance from the shore , they found themselves , to their great surprise , lifted up by the water ...
... body ; and they say the same of boats , for there are none on the lake . " Van Egmont and Heyman state , that on swimming to some distance from the shore , they found themselves , to their great surprise , lifted up by the water ...
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... body after it was shrouded in its grave - clothes ; sometimes upon a bier , which they bedecked with various sorts of flowers . The place where the bodies were laid out , was near the door of the house : there the friends of the ...
... body after it was shrouded in its grave - clothes ; sometimes upon a bier , which they bedecked with various sorts of flowers . The place where the bodies were laid out , was near the door of the house : there the friends of the ...
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... body ; and those of the second , y , aetophim , | or deficient , because they were feebler . The autumnal lambs , however , were preferred by many before the vernal , and the winter before the summer lambs , as being more vigorous and ...
... body ; and those of the second , y , aetophim , | or deficient , because they were feebler . The autumnal lambs , however , were preferred by many before the vernal , and the winter before the summer lambs , as being more vigorous and ...
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... body of the church , there is placed a small marble shrine , whereon are preserved the scull and one of the hands of St. Catharine . Mount Sinai hangs over this convent , being called by the Arabs , Jebbel Mousa , the mountain of Moses ...
... body of the church , there is placed a small marble shrine , whereon are preserved the scull and one of the hands of St. Catharine . Mount Sinai hangs over this convent , being called by the Arabs , Jebbel Mousa , the mountain of Moses ...
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... body , leaving the upper end to cover his face . Thus may be seen coolies in the morning , stretched side by side , having , during the night , defied all the stings of their foes , the moschetoes . -ROBERTS . The upper garment of the ...
... body , leaving the upper end to cover his face . Thus may be seen coolies in the morning , stretched side by side , having , during the night , defied all the stings of their foes , the moschetoes . -ROBERTS . The upper garment of the ...
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Page 264 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Page 281 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Page 29 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 27 - And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 257 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 295 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 47 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 124 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 63 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 269 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.