Letters from PalestineCharles Tilt, 1839 - 263 Seiten |
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Alexandria Anti-Lebanon appearance Arabic ascended Baalbec bank Bareda Beth-horon Beyroot boat building bushes Cairo called church coast considerable consul covered crossed cultivated Damascus Damietta Dead Sea descent distance district doubt east eastern world Egypt eight feet foot gardens gate Greek ground Hebron hills holy houses Jaffa Jaffa gate Jerusalem Jordan Kedron kind labour lake land Lebanon lies limestone looked Lord Maronites miles missionaries Mohammedans Mount Lebanon Mount Moriah mountains mules nearly night Nile olive Palestine Pasha passed pillars plain plain of Sharon pool pretty rain reached ridge river road rock ruins Rumla sand seen sepulchre shore side Soor south-east spots spread spring stands stone things Tiberias tomb tomb of Zechariah took town travellers trees usually valley vegetation vessel village vineyards walls whole wind
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Seite 179 - At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
Seite 237 - Babylon, making its course to the south, the palaces lie the one on the east, and the other on the west side of the river; both built at exceeding costs and expense.
Seite 148 - I [Jehovah] would not bring them into the land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands, because they despised my laws, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my Sabbaths.
Seite 146 - And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Seite 39 - ... They dig a hole in the ground, about the size of a large bottle — put a thick coat of plaster around the side and on the bottom, and then let it dry. It is very much in the shape of a large pot, a little bulging in the middle. A fire is made in the bottom of it, of small branches, and kept up until the sides are well heated ; the flames are then suffered to go down, leaving the mass of coals in the bottom. They...
Seite 44 - I saw no instrument to make wind. The threshing instrument is a board, about three feet in width and six or eight feet in length ; at the fore end it is turned up, a little like a sleigh. The board is about three inches in thickness. On the under side many holes are cut in it, from an inch and a half to two inches, and in these are fastened pieces of stone, flint or iron; these project nearly an inch from the face of the board and serve as teeth, to tear the heads of the grain in pieces. Oxen are...