Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 2J. Ritchie, 1808 |
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... mountains of Caramania and Cassius to the north ; and of Jebilee , Merkab , Bannias , as far as Tortosa , to the south . The founder could not VOL . II . * Είτα Λαοδικεία , B have επί τη θαλατη καλλιςα εκτισμένη και ευλίμενος Πόλις ...
... mountains of Caramania and Cassius to the north ; and of Jebilee , Merkab , Bannias , as far as Tortosa , to the south . The founder could not VOL . II . * Είτα Λαοδικεία , B have επί τη θαλατη καλλιςα εκτισμένη και ευλίμενος Πόλις ...
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... mountainous ; after which , we enter upon a most delightful plain , formerly the northern limit of the district of the Aradians * . At the mouth of the river Melleck , six miles from Jebilee , along this plain , the sea forms itself ...
... mountainous ; after which , we enter upon a most delightful plain , formerly the northern limit of the district of the Aradians * . At the mouth of the river Melleck , six miles from Jebilee , along this plain , the sea forms itself ...
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... mountains . These seem to be the Mons Bargylus of Pliny * ; as the Jeune may be the Interjacentes Campi , which he places to the northward of Mount Libanus . There are dispersed all over the Jeune , a great number of castles and watch ...
... mountains . These seem to be the Mons Bargylus of Pliny * ; as the Jeune may be the Interjacentes Campi , which he places to the northward of Mount Libanus . There are dispersed all over the Jeune , a great number of castles and watch ...
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... mountain , this circum- stance will better fall in with Arca , where Mount Libanus is remarkably broken off and ... mountains . Here likewise are not wanting Thebaic columns , and rich entablatures , to attest for the splendour and ...
... mountain , this circum- stance will better fall in with Arca , where Mount Libanus is remarkably broken off and ... mountains . Here likewise are not wanting Thebaic columns , and rich entablatures , to attest for the splendour and ...
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... mountain to the city by an aqueduct , whose principal arch , though now broken down , could not have been less than a hundred feet in diame- ter . This city was not known to the learned editor of the Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum ; ' qui ...
... mountain to the city by an aqueduct , whose principal arch , though now broken down , could not have been less than a hundred feet in diame- ter . This city was not known to the learned editor of the Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum ; ' qui ...
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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.