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... enclosure are two small jetties ; but these are quite modern , and there are no indications of an ancient harbour . Tell Hûm looks straight out over the lake and has not the variety of interest of Khan Minyeh . About two and a half ...
... enclosure are two small jetties ; but these are quite modern , and there are no indications of an ancient harbour . Tell Hûm looks straight out over the lake and has not the variety of interest of Khan Minyeh . About two and a half ...
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... enclosure been lengthened to the extent of rather more than one - fifth , 7 acres out of 35. The Herodian work extends about as far as the Golden Gate . Beyond that the character of the wall changes ; and the north wall of the enclosure ...
... enclosure been lengthened to the extent of rather more than one - fifth , 7 acres out of 35. The Herodian work extends about as far as the Golden Gate . Beyond that the character of the wall changes ; and the north wall of the enclosure ...
Page 60
... enclosure to some extent lacks , the im- pression of unity and coherence between the whole and the parts . It must have satisfied well the classic laws of proportion . And the materials used in every part of the building were such as to ...
... enclosure to some extent lacks , the im- pression of unity and coherence between the whole and the parts . It must have satisfied well the classic laws of proportion . And the materials used in every part of the building were such as to ...
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... enclosure , there is no necessary discrepancy . Happily , in view of the difficulty of placing all the Temple accommodation on so small a site , we find that the tract Middoth gives a larger dimension for the Mountain of the House ( as ...
... enclosure , there is no necessary discrepancy . Happily , in view of the difficulty of placing all the Temple accommodation on so small a site , we find that the tract Middoth gives a larger dimension for the Mountain of the House ( as ...
Page 107
... enclosure averaging 1,000 feet each way . That it was surrounded by cloisters is asserted by Josephus , who gives their dimensions , and further explains that the south cloister ( named the ' Royal ' ) was triple , whereas the others ...
... enclosure averaging 1,000 feet each way . That it was surrounded by cloisters is asserted by Josephus , who gives their dimensions , and further explains that the south cloister ( named the ' Royal ' ) was triple , whereas the others ...
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Page 98 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth — so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 98 - Whatever in those Climes he found Irregular in sight or sound Did to his mind impart A kindred impulse, seemed allied To his own powers, and justified The workings of his heart.
Page 22 - And they had a few small fishes : and having blessed them, he commanded to set these also before them.
Page 28 - The name, however, pronounced by Bedawin Arabs is so similar to Gergesa, that, to all my inquiries for this place, they invariably said it was at Chersa, and they insisted that they were identical, and I agree with them in this opinion.
Page 56 - Interius uero ciuitati sunt piscinae gemellares, quinque porticos habentes, quae appellantur Betsaida. Ibi aegri multorum annorum sanabantur. Aquam autem habent hae piscinae in modum coccini turbatam...
Page 44 - ... for besides the good temperature of the air, it is also watered from a most fertile fountain. The people of the country call it Capharnaum. Some have thought it to be a vein of the Nile, because it produces the Coracin fish as well as that lake does which is near to Alexandria.
Page 44 - Some have thought it to be a vein of the Nile, because it produces the Coracin fish as well as that lake does which is near to Alexandria. The length of this country extends itself along the banks of this lake that bears the same name for thirty furlongs, and is in breadth twenty, And this is the nature of that place.
Page 35 - Beisdn (Scythopolis), there is a remarkable group of seven springs, all lying within a radius of a quarter of a mile, which answers to the description "many waters.
Page 28 - ... swine, rushing madly down it, could not stop, but would be hurried on into the water and drowned. The place is one which our Lord would be likely to visit, having Capernaum in full view to the north, and Galilee
Page 99 - ... on the one hand to the Mediterranean and on the other to the yet deeper trench of the Jordan ; it is this succession of ' Pisgah views ' that puts its stamp upon the landscape of Palestine, and this also — Dr.