Travels in Palestine Through the Countries of Bashan and Gilead, East of the River Jordan: Including a Visit to the Cities of Geraza and Gamala in the Decapolis |
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... stone - built dwellings , mostly having courts , wells , and various conveniencies attached to them , besides other smaller habitations for the poor . There are within the walls one mosque , three Christian churches , a bath , and three ...
... stone - built dwellings , mostly having courts , wells , and various conveniencies attached to them , besides other smaller habitations for the poor . There are within the walls one mosque , three Christian churches , a bath , and three ...
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... stone , from the neighbouring hills , and a cement of admirable firmness , while the channel was lined throughout by a coating of plaster formed of lime and fine sand . Masses of stalactites , still preserving the tubular form in which ...
... stone , from the neighbouring hills , and a cement of admirable firmness , while the channel was lined throughout by a coating of plaster formed of lime and fine sand . Masses of stalactites , still preserving the tubular form in which ...
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... stone bridge , the broken fragments of which still remained . At half past ten , we passed through a considerable space co- vered with the ruins of former buildings , whose foundations only were apparent . It was close to the sea , and ...
... stone bridge , the broken fragments of which still remained . At half past ten , we passed through a considerable space co- vered with the ruins of former buildings , whose foundations only were apparent . It was close to the sea , and ...
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... stone causeways thrown over the brooks , good roads , and other symptoms of a greater attention to agricultural im- provement than we had witnessed in the neglected waste which we had just quitted . Acre was now full in sight ; but as ...
... stone causeways thrown over the brooks , good roads , and other symptoms of a greater attention to agricultural im- provement than we had witnessed in the neglected waste which we had just quitted . Acre was now full in sight ; but as ...
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... stone . The one beneath the roof of which we had taken shelter was at least forty feet square , and fifteeen feet high . Besides its outer walls , there were two inner divisions of two arches each , uniformly and strongly constructed ...
... stone . The one beneath the roof of which we had taken shelter was at least forty feet square , and fifteeen feet high . Besides its outer walls , there were two inner divisions of two arches each , uniformly and strongly constructed ...
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Page 409 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 89 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 163 - I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
Page 446 - And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
Page 244 - And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Page 477 - And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel : and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Page 396 - Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea...
Page 279 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them : for that is delivered unto me ; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 188 - AND he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Page 137 - Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.