Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulul El Safa, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the AlahTinsley brothers, 1872 - 400 páginas |
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Aláh alphabet ancient aneroid Anti-Libanus appears Arabic Ba'albak basalt Bashan Bedawin Beraita Buká'a Burckhardt Burton called camels cave Cedar Block Chap characters columns Dakwah Damascus Dayr desert Druzes east eastern Euphrates feet Gevil Greek ground Hamah Haurán Haush Hebrew Hermon hill Himyaritic Holy Land Jebel Durúz Jerusalem Jerusalem Talmud Karyatayn Kulayb Lebanon Leja letters Libanus Libyan limestone Litání Maimonides maps miles Mishna mountain Naba north-east northern open partitions Orontes Palestine Exploration Fund Palmyra Pasha Phoenician plain Porter proverb Rabbi region remarkable ride river road roll ruins rule Sannín scribe Shaykh Shephelah slopes southern stone summit Syria Syria and Palestine Talmud Tell tion Trachonitis travellers Tyrwhitt Drake unlawful valley Velde Verses village volcanic Wady western Wetzstein whilst word write written على كل لا ما مثل ولا يا
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Página 326 - 4, to scratch out, destroy, or blot out even a single letter of a holy name, in the words, ' Ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place. Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
Página 165 - The physical features of the Lejah are very remarkable. It is composed of black basalt, which appears to have issued from pores in the earth in a liquid state, and to have flowed out until the plain was almost covered. Before cooling, its surface was agitated by some powerful agency; and it was afterwards shattered and rent by internal convulsions and vibrations.
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Página 79 - still await the hour when, the home of a free, a striving, and an energetic people, it will again pour forth corn and oil, it will flow with milk and honey, and it will ' bear, with proper culture, almost all the good things that have been given to man.
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Página xi - of riding per diem, sketched and fixed the positions of some fifty ruins, which, in presence of the Circassian immigration, now a fait accompli, are fated soon to disappear from the face of earth; he is also sending home twenty to twenty-five Greek inscriptions, of which six or seven have dates; and before joining Captain Stewart,
Página xiii - of superstition, but the bane and plague-spot of bad rule—it will again rise to a position not unworthy of the days when it gave to the world a poetry and a system of religion still unforgotten by our highest civilisation.