Mount Sinai, Petra, and the Desert, Described and IllustratedT. Nelson, 1879 - 165 strani |
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Mount Sinai, Petra, and the Desert: Described and Illustrated William Henry Davenport Adams Predogled ni na voljo - 2015 |
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ancient Arabia Petræa Arabs Areopolis Aroer ascent Bedaween Biblical Researches Burckhardt called Catherine chapel Christian cleft cliffs cloth extra coast Coloured Frontispiece CONVENT OF ST Dahab Dean Stanley described desert eastern Edom Egypt Egyptian el-Sheikh encampment er-Râhah feet Frontispiece and Vignette geber Gilt edges gold granite Gulf of Akabah Gulf of Suez hills Horeb Illustrations inscriptions Israelites Jebel Mûsa journey Kings land Ledja lofty mass Moladah monks Moses moun MOUNT HOR Mount Serbal Mount Sinai Mount St mountain Nabathæans Nakht NELSON AND SONS northern Ophir Paran peaks Petra pilgrims plain Post 8vo Price ravine Red Sea remarkable Rephidim ridge Ritter Robinson rock route Royal 18mo ruins Rüppell sandstone says scene Seetzen Segor Sherm Shilling Shomar Sinai and Palestine Sinaitic Peninsula Solomon southern steep stones Story summit Tale tombs traveller traversed tribes Tûr valley WADY Wâdy Aleyat Wâdy Feirân Wâdy Mukatteb Wellsted wilderness
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 147 - God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion, and odoriferous as musk; and the loss of his limbs shall be supplied by the wings of angels and cherubim.
Stran 118 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Stran 47 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. 9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
Stran 50 - The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants : they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
Stran 22 - And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. 2 And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
Stran 148 - The nice sensibility of honor, which weighs the insult rather than the injury, sheds its deadly venom on the quarrels of the Arabs : the honor of their women, and of their beards, is most easily wounded ; an indecent action, a contemptuous word, can be expiated only by the blood of the offender ; and such is their patient inveteracy, that they expect whole months and years the opportunity of revenge.
Stran 108 - And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave : and, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?