Travels, Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with CutsA. Millar in the Strand, and W. Sandby in Fleet-Street., 1757 - 513 páginas |
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... called ) together with several of the larger notes and quotations from ancient authors ; the references themselves being only here retained . Some paragraphs likewise have been omitted or abridged in the work itself , viz . feveral of ...
... called ) together with several of the larger notes and quotations from ancient authors ; the references themselves being only here retained . Some paragraphs likewise have been omitted or abridged in the work itself , viz . feveral of ...
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... called daskrahs , made up of mud - walled hovels ( or gur- bies , according to their own appellation ) whereas the Arabs , being commonly the inhabitants of the plains , are therefore called Bedo- weens , living , as the Nomades and ...
... called daskrahs , made up of mud - walled hovels ( or gur- bies , according to their own appellation ) whereas the Arabs , being commonly the inhabitants of the plains , are therefore called Bedo- weens , living , as the Nomades and ...
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... called at prefent the Western province , or the province of Tlem - fan . CHA P. IV . p . Po . Of the most remarkable inland places and inhabitants of the Western province . CHAP . V. p . 22 . Of the fea - coaft of that part of the ...
... called at prefent the Western province , or the province of Tlem - fan . CHA P. IV . p . Po . Of the most remarkable inland places and inhabitants of the Western province . CHAP . V. p . 22 . Of the fea - coaft of that part of the ...
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... called by most of the modern geographers , Biledulgerid ; or , according to it's true name , Blaid el Feridde , i.e. The dry country . Though , if we except the Ferid , a small portion of it , that is fituated near the Leffer Syrtis ...
... called by most of the modern geographers , Biledulgerid ; or , according to it's true name , Blaid el Feridde , i.e. The dry country . Though , if we except the Ferid , a small portion of it , that is fituated near the Leffer Syrtis ...
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... called afterwards , when the Romans were in full poffeffion of it , the Mauritania Cafarienfis 3 ; and , in the ... called Dyris and Adiris , or Dyrim and Adderim 5 of the Ancients ; by the Indigena or first inhabitants ; but have not ...
... called afterwards , when the Romans were in full poffeffion of it , the Mauritania Cafarienfis 3 ; and , in the ... called Dyris and Adiris , or Dyrim and Adderim 5 of the Ancients ; by the Indigena or first inhabitants ; but have not ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 408 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Página 208 - ... falling from it into the court. From the cloisters and galleries, we are conducted into large spacious chambers, of the same length with the court, but seldom or never communicating with one another. One of them frequently serves a whole family, particularly when a father indulges his married children to live with him, or when several persons join in the rent of the same house.
Página 338 - But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped...
Página 215 - 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!
Página 188 - A day or two after one of these broods was in motion, others were already hatched to march and glean after them, gnawing off the very bark and the young branches of such trees as had before escaped with the loss only of their fruit and foliage. So justly have they been compared by the prophet to a great army ; who further observes, that the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness.
Página 167 - Shekb, who conducted us to Mount Sinai, rode upon a camel of this kind, and would frequently divert us with a token of its great abilities.
Página 229 - None of these ladies," says Shaw, " take themselves to be completely dressed, till they have tinged the hair and edges of their eyelids with the powder of lead ore. Now, as this operation is performed by dipping first into the powder a small wooden bodkin of the thickness of a quill, and then drawing it afterwards through the eyelids over the ball of the eye, we shall have a lively image of what the Prophet (Jer.
Página 188 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Página 215 - Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made...