Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 2J. Ritchie, 1808 |
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... variety of towers and villages , ponds and rivers ; to the westward , it sees the sun set in the sea , and , to the eastward , sees the sun rise over a long and distant chain of mountains . Here likewise are not wanting Thebaic columns ...
... variety of towers and villages , ponds and rivers ; to the westward , it sees the sun set in the sea , and , to the eastward , sees the sun rise over a long and distant chain of mountains . Here likewise are not wanting Thebaic columns ...
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... variety of other shells , the purpura of Ronde- letius is very common upon the sea - shore . Se- veral of the eruvia which I saw , had their insides beautified Sarræ nomen deduci notum est ex Hebræo Tyri nomine 13 , Tsor ; in quo ...
... variety of other shells , the purpura of Ronde- letius is very common upon the sea - shore . Se- veral of the eruvia which I saw , had their insides beautified Sarræ nomen deduci notum est ex Hebræo Tyri nomine 13 , Tsor ; in quo ...
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... variety of excellent fish ; which they either dispose of , whilst they are fresh , among the neighbouring villages , or else they salt and sell them afterwards to the Grecian merchants . Dami - ata is one of the most considerable cities ...
... variety of excellent fish ; which they either dispose of , whilst they are fresh , among the neighbouring villages , or else they salt and sell them afterwards to the Grecian merchants . Dami - ata is one of the most considerable cities ...
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... variety of villages , gardens and plantations , present themselves to our view , that from Rozetto to Kairo , and from thence all the way down , by the other branch , to Dami - ata , we see nothing but crowds of people , or continued ...
... variety of villages , gardens and plantations , present themselves to our view , that from Rozetto to Kairo , and from thence all the way down , by the other branch , to Dami - ata , we see nothing but crowds of people , or continued ...
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... variety indeed in these ex- pressions , but the meaning and intention of them all is the same ; in as much as to air ages and ψαμμιον ogos * Τον γαρ ποταμον παντα ρέειν παρά το όρος το ψαμμιον προς Λιβυης . Herod . p . 141. ed . Steph ...
... variety indeed in these ex- pressions , but the meaning and intention of them all is the same ; in as much as to air ages and ψαμμιον ogos * Τον γαρ ποταμον παντα ρέειν παρά το όρος το ψαμμιον προς Λιβυης . Herod . p . 141. ed . Steph ...
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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.