Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures: Derived Principally from the Manners, Customs, Rites, Traditions, Forms of Speech, Antiquities, Climate, and Works of Art and Literature, of the Eastern Nations ; Emodying All that is Valuable in the Works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the Most Celebrated Oriental Travellers ; Embracing Also the Subject of the Fulfilment of Prophecy, as Exhibited by Keith and Others ...George Bush Brattleboro ̓Typographic Company, 1839 - 656 páginas |
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... hundred pages , in a shape combining convenience and cheapness , and in a style blending the sweetness of the popular with the richness of the profound , what has heretofore been scattered through more than forty volumes , and mixed ...
... hundred pages , in a shape combining convenience and cheapness , and in a style blending the sweetness of the popular with the richness of the profound , what has heretofore been scattered through more than forty volumes , and mixed ...
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... hundred years . The line of descent , by which the primitive language might be transmitted from Adam to Abraham , and from this patriarch to Moses , is short and straight ; for between Adam and Noah were only eight persons , and the ...
... hundred years . The line of descent , by which the primitive language might be transmitted from Adam to Abraham , and from this patriarch to Moses , is short and straight ; for between Adam and Noah were only eight persons , and the ...
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... hundred and eighteen , and pursued them unto Dan . If we should turn our thoughts to the strength of an Arab emir , or the number of men they command , we shall find it is not very great , and that were Abraham now alive , and possessed ...
... hundred and eighteen , and pursued them unto Dan . If we should turn our thoughts to the strength of an Arab emir , or the number of men they command , we shall find it is not very great , and that were Abraham now alive , and possessed ...
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... hundred girls , the most beautiful of Greece and Georgia . I have educated them with care ; and now that they are marriageable , I am taking them to Bagdad to sell them to advantage . Ah ! they perish in this desert for thirst , but I ...
... hundred girls , the most beautiful of Greece and Georgia . I have educated them with care ; and now that they are marriageable , I am taking them to Bagdad to sell them to advantage . Ah ! they perish in this desert for thirst , but I ...
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... hundred and sixty to a hundred and seventy feet , the water is drawn up with small leathern buckets , and a cord , which travellers are often obliged to carry along with them , in their journey , because they meet with more cisterns and ...
... hundred and sixty to a hundred and seventy feet , the water is drawn up with small leathern buckets , and a cord , which travellers are often obliged to carry along with them , in their journey , because they meet with more cisterns and ...
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Página 264 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud : for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Página 281 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
Página 29 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Página 27 - And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Página 257 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Página 295 - I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Página 47 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Página 124 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Página 63 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Página 269 - 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.