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... Writers , on taking leave of Nubia , offer some general remarks , of which we shall transcribe the most important and characteristic . Immediately beyond the First Cataract , the Mockatem and Lybian chains of mountains close upon the ...
... Writers , on taking leave of Nubia , offer some general remarks , of which we shall transcribe the most important and characteristic . Immediately beyond the First Cataract , the Mockatem and Lybian chains of mountains close upon the ...
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... Writer speaks from a very vague recollec- tion of the description given by either Volney or Maundrell . The former contents himself with a sneer at the boasted cedars -four or five large trees , the only ones remaining , and which have ...
... Writer speaks from a very vague recollec- tion of the description given by either Volney or Maundrell . The former contents himself with a sneer at the boasted cedars -four or five large trees , the only ones remaining , and which have ...
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... Writer , that the name of the stream is not mentioned : possibly they were not able to ascertain it . It seems to correspond to the Wady Yabes of Burckhardt , in which we seem to have a nearer approach to the Jabbok of Scripture , than ...
... Writer , that the name of the stream is not mentioned : possibly they were not able to ascertain it . It seems to correspond to the Wady Yabes of Burckhardt , in which we seem to have a nearer approach to the Jabbok of Scripture , than ...
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... Writer , is the extraordinary colouring of these mountains more striking than in the road to the Tomb of Aaron . The rock sometimes presented a deep , sometimes a paler blue , and some- times was occasionally streaked with red , or ...
... Writer , is the extraordinary colouring of these mountains more striking than in the road to the Tomb of Aaron . The rock sometimes presented a deep , sometimes a paler blue , and some- times was occasionally streaked with red , or ...
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... Writer , to whom , in parting , we beg to offer the tribute of our warmest thanks and applause for his unaffected and intelligent narrative of travels distinguished by no ordi- nary degree of enterprise , and awakening , from the ...
... Writer , to whom , in parting , we beg to offer the tribute of our warmest thanks and applause for his unaffected and intelligent narrative of travels distinguished by no ordi- nary degree of enterprise , and awakening , from the ...
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Page 138 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance ; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 58 - I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 284 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 511 - I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by me.
Page 376 - Thou fool ! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 145 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 378 - There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 225 - ... the earth, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up...
Page 15 - I could reckon up only sixteen, and the latter are very numerous. I measured one of the largest, and found it twelve yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground it was divided into five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree.
Page 336 - And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.