Letters from the Old World, Volume 2Harper & Brothers, 1840 |
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... . - The Hills of Jerusalem 63 LETTER XXIX . Moods of Travellers . - Worshippers at the Holy City . - Emotions of the Christian . - Topography of Jerusalem . - Walls of Jerusalem . - Pool of Siloam . - What the Moslems believe .-- Temple of.
... . - The Hills of Jerusalem 63 LETTER XXIX . Moods of Travellers . - Worshippers at the Holy City . - Emotions of the Christian . - Topography of Jerusalem . - Walls of Jerusalem . - Pool of Siloam . - What the Moslems believe .-- Temple of.
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Sarah Rogers Haight. Siloam . - What the Moslems believe .-- Temple of the Patriarchs . - Gar- den of Gethsemane ... Temple of the Sun. - Ascent of Mount Lebanon . - Cedars of Lebanon . - Village of CONTENTS . vii Eden . Singular ...
Sarah Rogers Haight. Siloam . - What the Moslems believe .-- Temple of the Patriarchs . - Gar- den of Gethsemane ... Temple of the Sun. - Ascent of Mount Lebanon . - Cedars of Lebanon . - Village of CONTENTS . vii Eden . Singular ...
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... temple unto Mammon , and fall down to worship at its shrine . No ! a holier and a purer feeling is inspired by these reflections , when I consider that you and I are fa- thers , in our modern state , bound to place before our sons the ...
... temple unto Mammon , and fall down to worship at its shrine . No ! a holier and a purer feeling is inspired by these reflections , when I consider that you and I are fa- thers , in our modern state , bound to place before our sons the ...
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... temple of the Lord , and for the house of the forest of Lebanon . ' Others were floated from Dan down to the Sea of Galilee , and through the Jordan to the Dead Sea , thence by an easy transportation through the dry bed of its ancient ...
... temple of the Lord , and for the house of the forest of Lebanon . ' Others were floated from Dan down to the Sea of Galilee , and through the Jordan to the Dead Sea , thence by an easy transportation through the dry bed of its ancient ...
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... temple which was the pride of the Tyrians , which they defiled ' by the multitude of " their iniquities . ' 6 " The most minute prophecy against the joyous city ' is literally fulfilled , for it is even now a place for the spread . ing ...
... temple which was the pride of the Tyrians , which they defiled ' by the multitude of " their iniquities . ' 6 " The most minute prophecy against the joyous city ' is literally fulfilled , for it is even now a place for the spread . ing ...
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Acropolis ancient appearance Arab arrived Asia Minor Athens bazars beautiful Bedouins Beyrout called caravan Christian church Constantinople Corinth Damascus delightful desert distance East Egypt encamped feet Galilee gardens gate gentlemen Greece Greek ground gulf hareem hill Holy City Holy Land horses immense Jerusalem Jordan journey ladies Lebanon letter Lord marble miles monuments morning Moslem mosque Mount Mount Moriah Mount Tabor mountain never night once Oriental Palestine Parthenon passed pilgrims plain Pool of Siloam present prophet quarantine reach ride river rock rode ruins sacred sail Samaria Saviour scene Sea of Galilee seen Sepulchre sheik shore side Sidon singular Smyrna Solomon soon spot stone stream summit Syria Telmessus temple tent thou tion tomb town travellers trees Turk Turkish Tyre unto valley vessel walls whole wind Zion
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Page 129 - ... in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply : and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them...
Page 110 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
Page 91 - Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale : for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he called the pillar after his own name : and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
Page 296 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 12 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 21 - The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, To stain the pride of all glory, And to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Page 113 - But their minds were blinded : for until this day remaineth the same veil untaken away in the reading of the old testament ; which veil is done away in Christ. But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
Page 112 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left ; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Page 129 - See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil, in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, and His statutes, and His judgments...
Page 78 - Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.