Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the BibleC. Cox, 1850 - 360 sidor |
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... hundred tributaries , dilating into the vast estuary , bearing the proud fleets of commerce and war , and almost rivalling in grandeur the ocean into which it is pouring its everlasting tribute of waters . Sweet is it , in the heat of ...
... hundred tributaries , dilating into the vast estuary , bearing the proud fleets of commerce and war , and almost rivalling in grandeur the ocean into which it is pouring its everlasting tribute of waters . Sweet is it , in the heat of ...
Sida 17
... hundred and fifty miles from its mouth , is here a noble river , broad , deep , and ra- pid . The soil is com- posed of clay fit for the making of bricks ; and there are in the BRICKS FROM BABYLON . vicinity fountains which throw up ...
... hundred and fifty miles from its mouth , is here a noble river , broad , deep , and ra- pid . The soil is com- posed of clay fit for the making of bricks ; and there are in the BRICKS FROM BABYLON . vicinity fountains which throw up ...
Sida 18
... hundred and twenty stadia , or fifteen miles ; and the tower as having for its basement a cube of solid masonry measuring a furlong on every side . On this a smaller story is erected , and on this another , until eight , successively ...
... hundred and twenty stadia , or fifteen miles ; and the tower as having for its basement a cube of solid masonry measuring a furlong on every side . On this a smaller story is erected , and on this another , until eight , successively ...
Sida 26
... hundreds of camels rise above the general level , and their hunched backs are loaded with tents , poles , the larger articles of furniture , and various packages of baggage , so as often to project far on each side . On the very summit ...
... hundreds of camels rise above the general level , and their hunched backs are loaded with tents , poles , the larger articles of furniture , and various packages of baggage , so as often to project far on each side . On the very summit ...
Sida 42
... hundred massive gates of brass , at regular distances , gave ingress and egress to the thousands that were constantly pouring in and out of the city ; each of these gates was the extremity of a street , which traversed the city in a ...
... hundred massive gates of brass , at regular distances , gave ingress and egress to the thousands that were constantly pouring in and out of the city ; each of these gates was the extremity of a street , which traversed the city in a ...
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Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1883 |
Sacred Streams: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1850 |
Sacred Streams; Or: The Ancient and Modern History of the Rivers of the Bible Philip Henry Gosse Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1852 |
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Sida 310 - And she said, as the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.
Sida 92 - Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Sida 159 - Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Sida 227 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt . And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
Sida 252 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant ; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan ; and now I am become two bands.
Sida 4 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken. But there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no 'galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
Sida 55 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Sida 3 - There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
Sida 62 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Sida 305 - Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death In the high places of the field.