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... sides of the Jordan ; but there can be little doubt that since that day the process of ' Arabization ' has gone much further . The great impulse , of course , was given by the conquest and rule of the successors of Mahomet ; but in the ...
... sides of the Jordan ; but there can be little doubt that since that day the process of ' Arabization ' has gone much further . The great impulse , of course , was given by the conquest and rule of the successors of Mahomet ; but in the ...
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... side of the forehead in front of the ears , like spare ringlets from the chevelures of our great - aunts . I asked David [ the dragoman ] , who had dwelt among them for years , what this curious- looking folk did for a living . He ...
... side of the forehead in front of the ears , like spare ringlets from the chevelures of our great - aunts . I asked David [ the dragoman ] , who had dwelt among them for years , what this curious- looking folk did for a living . He ...
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... . more freely in proportion to the distance from Jerusalem . It is on the side of this Graeco - Roman civilization that we have to make the greatest addition to what we can now see in Palestine , and in regard IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 13.
... . more freely in proportion to the distance from Jerusalem . It is on the side of this Graeco - Roman civilization that we have to make the greatest addition to what we can now see in Palestine , and in regard IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 13.
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... side is the Old Syriac ( both Curetonian and Sinaitic ) , which is , however , on account of this reading and one or two others , open to the suspicion of having come under the influence of Origen . For while Origen tells us expressly ...
... side is the Old Syriac ( both Curetonian and Sinaitic ) , which is , however , on account of this reading and one or two others , open to the suspicion of having come under the influence of Origen . For while Origen tells us expressly ...
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... side appears to be formed by a single mountain wall averaging some 1,500 feet in height , with a few clefts in it , where ravines come down to the sea . Of these ravines the most considerable is the Wâdy Semak , a little north of midway ...
... side appears to be formed by a single mountain wall averaging some 1,500 feet in height , with a few clefts in it , where ravines come down to the sea . Of these ravines the most considerable is the Wâdy Semak , a little north of midway ...
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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.