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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... rock , or with fome ancient arches , that had formerly belonged to fo many cifterns . At these times , which indeed feldom happened , our horfes were the greatest fufferers and as they were always our first care , we gathered for them ...
... rock , or with fome ancient arches , that had formerly belonged to fo many cifterns . At these times , which indeed feldom happened , our horfes were the greatest fufferers and as they were always our first care , we gathered for them ...
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... rock . The author of the Itinerary affigns CVII Roman miles for the di- place the Sal- ftance between this port and the Flumen Salfum ; whereas , in fact , and the Portus it will not amount to LX . For if we take the Mers ' el Kebeer ...
... rock . The author of the Itinerary affigns CVII Roman miles for the di- place the Sal- ftance between this port and the Flumen Salfum ; whereas , in fact , and the Portus it will not amount to LX . For if we take the Mers ' el Kebeer ...
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... rock , which , ftanding out at a fmall distance from it , in the fea , aptly reprefents a fhip under fail . Twelve ... rocks and precipices , which must have been always a natural fafeguard to it , in that direction . The water , which ...
... rock , which , ftanding out at a fmall distance from it , in the fea , aptly reprefents a fhip under fail . Twelve ... rocks and precipices , which must have been always a natural fafeguard to it , in that direction . The water , which ...
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... rocks . The fea - fhore , which from Algiers to Temendfufe , and from thence to this place , is very little interrupted with rocks and precipices , begins now to be very rugged and mountainous : and among these eminences , three leagues ...
... rocks . The fea - fhore , which from Algiers to Temendfufe , and from thence to this place , is very little interrupted with rocks and precipices , begins now to be very rugged and mountainous : and among these eminences , three leagues ...
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... rocks and precipices . In the winter feafon the ridge of this mountain is always covered with fnow ; and it is further remarkable , that whilft the inhabitants of the one fide of it , carry on an heredi- tary and implacable animofity ...
... rocks and precipices . In the winter feafon the ridge of this mountain is always covered with fnow ; and it is further remarkable , that whilft the inhabitants of the one fide of it , carry on an heredi- tary and implacable animofity ...
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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...