Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 2J. Ritchie, 1808 |
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... και ευλίμενος Πόλις , χώρον τε έχουσα πολυοινον προς τη αλλη ευκαρπια . Strab . Geog . 1. xvi . P. 1091. Exclusus ab Antiochia Dolabella - Laodiceam , que est in Syria ad mare , se contulit . Cic . Epist . 1. xii . ep . 14 . Λαοδίκην θ ...
... και ευλίμενος Πόλις , χώρον τε έχουσα πολυοινον προς τη αλλη ευκαρπια . Strab . Geog . 1. xvi . P. 1091. Exclusus ab Antiochia Dolabella - Laodiceam , que est in Syria ad mare , se contulit . Cic . Epist . 1. xii . ep . 14 . Λαοδίκην θ ...
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... και αμμώδης ) barren and sandy . ' It is likewise very probable , in so great a distress as this for water , that had there been , during the rainy season , any torrent or occasional stream running by it , the inhabitants would ra- ther ...
... και αμμώδης ) barren and sandy . ' It is likewise very probable , in so great a distress as this for water , that had there been , during the rainy season , any torrent or occasional stream running by it , the inhabitants would ra- ther ...
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... Και Αιγυπτιες είναι τέτες οἱ ενερθε Ελεφαντινης πολιος οικέοντες , απο το ποταμε τοτε πινεσι . p . id . 1. v . c . 9 . + Arabia conterminum claritatis magnæ , solis oppidum . Plin . Ultra Pelusiacum ostium Arabia est . Id . Ibid . c . v ...
... Και Αιγυπτιες είναι τέτες οἱ ενερθε Ελεφαντινης πολιος οικέοντες , απο το ποταμε τοτε πινεσι . p . id . 1. v . c . 9 . + Arabia conterminum claritatis magnæ , solis oppidum . Plin . Ultra Pelusiacum ostium Arabia est . Id . Ibid . c . v ...
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... και τριακοσίων σαδίων , ὁ δη και βασιν τε Δελτα εφαμεν . Εντευθεν δ ' επι Φάρον τιην νησον αλλοι σάδιοι πεντήκοντα προς τους έκατον . Strab . lib . xvii . p . 1140. [ Canopus inde , ab Alexandria sc . duodecimo disjungitur lapide ...
... και τριακοσίων σαδίων , ὁ δη και βασιν τε Δελτα εφαμεν . Εντευθεν δ ' επι Φάρον τιην νησον αλλοι σάδιοι πεντήκοντα προς τους έκατον . Strab . lib . xvii . p . 1140. [ Canopus inde , ab Alexandria sc . duodecimo disjungitur lapide ...
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... notice of by Strabo , ander the name of ΑΓΝΟΥ ΚΕΡΑΣ . Μετα δε το Βολβίτινον σαρα επιπλέον εκκειται ταπεινη και αμμώδης ακρα · καλείται δε Αγνά κέρας . 1. xvii . p . 1153 . Kairo , or Al Kahirah * , or in the 68 Of the Delta .
... notice of by Strabo , ander the name of ΑΓΝΟΥ ΚΕΡΑΣ . Μετα δε το Βολβίτινον σαρα επιπλέον εκκειται ταπεινη και αμμώδης ακρα · καλείται δε Αγνά κέρας . 1. xvii . p . 1153 . Kairo , or Al Kahirah * , or in the 68 Of the Delta .
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Page 337 - 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 341 - 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 87 - 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 263 - 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 52 - 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 269 - They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Page 263 - ... the water, gushing out, is conducted from one rill to another by the gardener, who is always ready, as occasion requires, to stop and divert the torrent, by turning the earth against it by his foot, and at the same time opening, with his mattock, a new trench to receive it. A similar mode of irrigating lands obtains in the island of Cyprus
Page 205 - Pyramid, a chamber, in which there was a hollow stone : in it was a statue of stone like a man, and within it a man, upon whom was a breast-plate of gold set with jewels ; upon...
Page 108 - ... this channel a great number .of holes, some of them four or five inches deep, and one or two in diameter, the lively and demonstrative tokens of their having been formerly so many fountains. It likewise may be further observed, that art or chance could by no means be concerned in the contrivance, for every circumstance points out to us a miracle, and, in the same manner with the rent in the rock of Mount Calvary, at Jerusalem, never fails to produce a religious surprise in all who see it.
Page 205 - ... price, and at his head a carbuncle of the bigness of an egg, shining like the light of the day ; and upon him were characters written with a pen, no man knows what they signify.