Flowers from the Holy Land; an account of the chief plants named in Scripture1851 |
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... early in the morning on the branches of the Cistus , which has some resemblance to sage , while its flowers , though differing in colour and smaller , are very like in form to the common wild - rose . Some regard the gum as ex- uded ...
... early in the morning on the branches of the Cistus , which has some resemblance to sage , while its flowers , though differing in colour and smaller , are very like in form to the common wild - rose . Some regard the gum as ex- uded ...
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... early rain Descends on parched Esdrela's plain , And Tabor's oak - girt crest , More frequent than the host of night , Those earth - born stars , as sages write , Their brilliant disks unfold ; Fit symbol of imperial state , Their ...
... early rain Descends on parched Esdrela's plain , And Tabor's oak - girt crest , More frequent than the host of night , Those earth - born stars , as sages write , Their brilliant disks unfold ; Fit symbol of imperial state , Their ...
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... early as the month of May ; in colder climates , from July to August . The fruit is a round berry , of a very deep brown colour , which encloses a number of pale seeds . The Myrtle was a great favourite with the ancients , who liked the ...
... early as the month of May ; in colder climates , from July to August . The fruit is a round berry , of a very deep brown colour , which encloses a number of pale seeds . The Myrtle was a great favourite with the ancients , who liked the ...
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... early period , to spinning flax into thread ; and this branch of domestic industry receives the approval of the wise king . He asks , " who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far ahove rubies ..... She seeketh wool and flax ...
... early period , to spinning flax into thread ; and this branch of domestic industry receives the approval of the wise king . He asks , " who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far ahove rubies ..... She seeketh wool and flax ...
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... early period in the history of the Church , attempted to impregnate the pure stream of Divine truth ; and this too by means of some whose duty it was to preserve its integrity , but who thus became manifest as the ministers of Satan ...
... early period in the history of the Church , attempted to impregnate the pure stream of Divine truth ; and this too by means of some whose duty it was to preserve its integrity , but who thus became manifest as the ministers of Satan ...
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Aaron's rod Abimelech abundance Almond-tree aloes Anise appear Arabia Arabs barley beautiful bitter blessed bloom blossom Box-tree Bramble branches bread Calamus Cassia Celsius chabazzeleth colour corn cultivated doth Dove's Dung Ebony Egypt Egyptians flax flowers fragrance fruit Galbanum gardens gather grain green ground grow hath heart heaven Hebrew height Holy Hyssop incense Isaiah Israel Israelites Ital Jews Jonah Jonquil Kikayon kinds king ladanum land leaves Lentils Lily LORD manna Martagon Lily mentioned Mustard Myrtle narcissus o'er odour pale Palestine perfume plant Pomegranate prophet reed rendered root Rosa damascena Rose Russ says Scarlet Scriptures seeds shalt shittah-tree shrub Solomon Song of Solomon soul sown species stem Storax substance Swed sweet Syria tabernacle tares thee thorns Thou hast translated tree unto verse wheat whence wicked wild wilderness wood word wormwood yellow yields
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Page 89 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 135 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 23 - ... when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low, also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail...
Page 150 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 10 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 178 - Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greenness ? It was gone Quite under ground ; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown ; Where they together, All the hard weather, Dead to the world, keep house unknown.
Page 89 - And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Page 81 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Page 168 - But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 152 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.