Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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... say , the actors are Christian priests of the Coptic rite . An Arab latterly has set up in opposition to them , but as ... says , that out of every three who are brought there , two perish ; while , in point of fact , the mortality is ...
... say , the actors are Christian priests of the Coptic rite . An Arab latterly has set up in opposition to them , but as ... says , that out of every three who are brought there , two perish ; while , in point of fact , the mortality is ...
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... says , " Among the eunuchs there were four of most excellent dis- position , and one of these was called Daniel . " Whiston informs us that all courtiers were generally called eunuchs by the Jews , on account of the great number of ...
... says , " Among the eunuchs there were four of most excellent dis- position , and one of these was called Daniel . " Whiston informs us that all courtiers were generally called eunuchs by the Jews , on account of the great number of ...
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... confess that they learned it from the Egyptians . " Which is in the right I do not pretend to say ; but Josephus's reason for the difference in the period in Syria and Arabia is very satisfactory . 16 ARAB CUSTOMS . " Isaac , " he says.
... confess that they learned it from the Egyptians . " Which is in the right I do not pretend to say ; but Josephus's reason for the difference in the period in Syria and Arabia is very satisfactory . 16 ARAB CUSTOMS . " Isaac , " he says.
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Richard Robert Madden. 16 ARAB CUSTOMS . " Isaac , " he says , " was circumcised on the eighth day ; and from that time the Jews continue the custom of circumcising their children within that number of days . But as for the Arabians ...
Richard Robert Madden. 16 ARAB CUSTOMS . " Isaac , " he says , " was circumcised on the eighth day ; and from that time the Jews continue the custom of circumcising their children within that number of days . But as for the Arabians ...
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... says sixty , and that the animal has sixty teeth , sixty vertebræ , and lives sixty years . The most striking peculiarity in the crocodile is its digestion ; in the one I dissected , I found several pebbles in the stomach : the rectum ...
... says sixty , and that the animal has sixty teeth , sixty vertebræ , and lives sixty years . The most striking peculiarity in the crocodile is its digestion ; in the one I dissected , I found several pebbles in the stomach : the rectum ...
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Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 311 - 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 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Page 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Page 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Page 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.