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... Land , and upon the isthmus betwixt Egypt and the Red Sea , our conductors cannot be too numerous , whole clans of Arabs , from fifty to five hundred , some- times looking out for a booty . This was the case of our caravan , in ...
... Land , and upon the isthmus betwixt Egypt and the Red Sea , our conductors cannot be too numerous , whole clans of Arabs , from fifty to five hundred , some- times looking out for a booty . This was the case of our caravan , in ...
Page xviii
... Land , and in Arabia , which have been gra- dually erected ( as so many signs , Ezek . xxxix . 15. ) over travellers ... lands , which , at one time or other ( as they have been taught to fear , vol . i . p . 443. ) are to be restored to ...
... Land , and in Arabia , which have been gra- dually erected ( as so many signs , Ezek . xxxix . 15. ) over travellers ... lands , which , at one time or other ( as they have been taught to fear , vol . i . p . 443. ) are to be restored to ...
Page xxi
... lands , or from fear and com- pulsion , to give the spahces and their company the mounah , as they call it , which is such a suffi- cient quantity of provisions for ourselves , toge- ther with straw and barley for our mules and horses ...
... lands , or from fear and com- pulsion , to give the spahces and their company the mounah , as they call it , which is such a suffi- cient quantity of provisions for ourselves , toge- ther with straw and barley for our mules and horses ...
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... land proper for tillage . But , to the eastward of Algiers , the breadth is more considerable ; par- ticularly in the meridians of Boujejah , Jijel , and Bona , where it is never less than c M. With * Moll's Geography , Part ii . p ...
... land proper for tillage . But , to the eastward of Algiers , the breadth is more considerable ; par- ticularly in the meridians of Boujejah , Jijel , and Bona , where it is never less than c M. With * Moll's Geography , Part ii . p ...
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... land , that lies in that direction between the Atlantic ocean and Egypt , is called by most of the modern geographers , Biledulgerid ; or , ac- cording to its true name , Blaid el Jeridde , i . e . The dry country . Though , if we ...
... land , that lies in that direction between the Atlantic ocean and Egypt , is called by most of the modern geographers , Biledulgerid ; or , ac- cording to its true name , Blaid el Jeridde , i . e . The dry country . Though , if we ...
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Page 383 - Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall ; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick : and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Page 433 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or 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 373 - ... present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Page 383 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!
Page 374 - Now therefore thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
Page 424 - And he took butter and milk and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Page 424 - And He turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman ? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.
Page 412 - And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 423 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Page 431 - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.