Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volym 2H. Colburn, 1829 |
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... considered very excellent food . I am astonished that the Arabs , who can eat snails , locusts , land tortoises , and camels ' flesh , should reject that of the crocodile . The female takes three or four days to deposit her eggs in the ...
... considered very excellent food . I am astonished that the Arabs , who can eat snails , locusts , land tortoises , and camels ' flesh , should reject that of the crocodile . The female takes three or four days to deposit her eggs in the ...
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... his missionary zeal . He failed in converting them , so he considered a superfluous malediction could not damn them a jot deeper ; this is , at least , the most charitable 44 MISSIONARIES . construction I can put upon his fury.
... his missionary zeal . He failed in converting them , so he considered a superfluous malediction could not damn them a jot deeper ; this is , at least , the most charitable 44 MISSIONARIES . construction I can put upon his fury.
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... considered as representations of the divine attributes , en- grossed at last the veneration which was due to the divinity , of which they only were the type . The Devil had his temple at Dendera , the crocodile had his at Koum Ombos ...
... considered as representations of the divine attributes , en- grossed at last the veneration which was due to the divinity , of which they only were the type . The Devil had his temple at Dendera , the crocodile had his at Koum Ombos ...
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... considered best adapted to excite religious feelings , to illustrate divine love , and to deprecate divine wrath . Good God ! what miserable creatures we are ; how vainly do we vaunt of our exalted reason ! how little have men known of ...
... considered best adapted to excite religious feelings , to illustrate divine love , and to deprecate divine wrath . Good God ! what miserable creatures we are ; how vainly do we vaunt of our exalted reason ! how little have men known of ...
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... considered a cameo productive of as much effect as the largest temple : but the Egyptians had a better knowledge of the arts , and were content to give beauty to the one , and sublimity to the other ; and so far as it was possible to ...
... considered a cameo productive of as much effect as the largest temple : but the Egyptians had a better knowledge of the arts , and were content to give beauty to the one , and sublimity to the other ; and so far as it was possible to ...
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Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826 ..., Volym 2 Richard Robert Madden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826 ..., Volym 2 Richard Robert Madden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1829 |
Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826 ..., Volym 2 Richard Robert Madden Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1830 |
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Sida 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Sida 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Sida 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Sida 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Sida 311 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Sida 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Sida 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Sida 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Sida 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Sida 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.