Notes of a Clerical Furlough, Spent Chiefly in the Holy Land. With a Sketch of the Voyage Out1859 |
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... feet . 3 abruptly to the height of 1450 feet , and about three miles in length , shuts in the bay on the east . The town of Gibraltar lies at the base of the north - western face of the rock . The barracks and the suburban residences of ...
... feet . 3 abruptly to the height of 1450 feet , and about three miles in length , shuts in the bay on the east . The town of Gibraltar lies at the base of the north - western face of the rock . The barracks and the suburban residences of ...
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... feet upon the narrow , flat , and sandy isthmus which joins it on to the mainland of Spain . A very slight elevation of the sea would completely submerge this isth- mus and make the rock one of " the British isles . " On the north and ...
... feet upon the narrow , flat , and sandy isthmus which joins it on to the mainland of Spain . A very slight elevation of the sea would completely submerge this isth- mus and make the rock one of " the British isles . " On the north and ...
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Robert Buchanan. GIBRALTAR . 25 his bare bronzed legs and sandalled feet , clad in his coarse striped haïk , strolling about with his long stride and careless air ; there was the black - capped Barbary Jew , with his dark cunning eyes ...
Robert Buchanan. GIBRALTAR . 25 his bare bronzed legs and sandalled feet , clad in his coarse striped haïk , strolling about with his long stride and careless air ; there was the black - capped Barbary Jew , with his dark cunning eyes ...
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Robert Buchanan. cipice of 500 or 600 feet , and ascends to about the same height above . In the face of the same gigantic wall of rock , about 100 feet lower down , there is another excavation , or long tunnel , loop - holed all along ...
Robert Buchanan. cipice of 500 or 600 feet , and ascends to about the same height above . In the face of the same gigantic wall of rock , about 100 feet lower down , there is another excavation , or long tunnel , loop - holed all along ...
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... feet . Turning westwards beneath this mighty wall we entered , at the point where the rock meets Gibraltar Bay , the gate of the town , and hurried down through an inner gate to the mole , just in time to get back to our home in the ...
... feet . Turning westwards beneath this mighty wall we entered , at the point where the rock meets Gibraltar Bay , the gate of the town , and hurried down through an inner gate to the mole , just in time to get back to our home in the ...
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Page 139 - And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
Page 308 - And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 247 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 203 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it. and brought it to David : nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
Page 342 - Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! Woe unto thee Bethsaida ! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Page 244 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 175 - And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 143 - And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him. 40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
Page 316 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Page 136 - Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her : loose them, and bring them unto me. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them ; and straightway he will send them.