Travels in Mesopotamia, כרך 1Colburn, 1827 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 53
עמוד vii
... given , for the satisfaction of the curious , in an APPENDIX at the end of the present volume . It is here thought sufficient , therefore , merely to record the fact , in order that the reader may be sa- tisfied , before he enters on ...
... given , for the satisfaction of the curious , in an APPENDIX at the end of the present volume . It is here thought sufficient , therefore , merely to record the fact , in order that the reader may be sa- tisfied , before he enters on ...
עמוד 3
... given , and will serve at once to introduce to the reader's attention the characters in whose society , and the circumstances under which , the Journey about to be described was under- taken . The great regular caravan from Aleppo to ...
... given , and will serve at once to introduce to the reader's attention the characters in whose society , and the circumstances under which , the Journey about to be described was under- taken . The great regular caravan from Aleppo to ...
עמוד 24
... given us time to form , their success would have been easy for , in the whole of our party , we did not muster more than a hundred stand of arms ; and these were so disunited , and so unskilfully used , that they must have failed in ...
... given us time to form , their success would have been easy for , in the whole of our party , we did not muster more than a hundred stand of arms ; and these were so disunited , and so unskilfully used , that they must have failed in ...
עמוד 51
... given in the translation of Dr. Vincent's " Com- merce and Navigation of the Ancients , " that writer has the following note . 66 Phora , however , in some manuscripts , is written Phorath , like Diglath , and is in reality the modern ...
... given in the translation of Dr. Vincent's " Com- merce and Navigation of the Ancients , " that writer has the following note . 66 Phora , however , in some manuscripts , is written Phorath , like Diglath , and is in reality the modern ...
עמוד 52
... given to these rivers from their containing this fine sweet water , or whether this last was not subsequently expressed by a term , derived from the name of the river itself . دجال By Richardson , the name of the Tigris is written in ...
... given to these rivers from their containing this fine sweet water , or whether this last was not subsequently expressed by a term , derived from the name of the river itself . دجال By Richardson , the name of the Tigris is written in ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abraham afterwards Aleppo ancient appearance Arabs arch arms Bagdad banks basalt bazārs Bedouin Beer buildings called camels camp caravan caravanserai castle chief chiefly Christians colour court covered d'une dance Dara Desert Diarbekr distance dressed dwellings east eastern Edessa encamped Euphrates feet fifty foot friends going ground Hadjee Hadjee's halted hands Haran hills horses hour houses hundred inhabitants inscriptions Janissaries journey Khan kind Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry ment Mesopotamia miles Mohammedan mosque Mount Taurus mountains mounted Mousul nearly night Nisibeen Nisibis occasion Orfah party Pasha passed Patriarch Persian persons piastres plain portion prayers present qu'ils river road rock Roman ruined Saracenic seated seemed seen Sheikh Shereefs side Sinjar soil stone stream sun-set Syria tarboosh Taurus tent thought Tigris tion town travelled trees tribe Turcomans Turkish Turks village Wahabis wall whole women Yézidis
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 325 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
עמוד 109 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to -go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
עמוד 324 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man place ;' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
עמוד 29 - 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.
עמוד 29 - AND the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day ; and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground...
עמוד 324 - But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
עמוד 379 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
עמוד 91 - She told me the two girls at her feet were her daughters, though she appeared- too young to be their mother. Her fair maids were ranged below the sofa, to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. 1 did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty.
עמוד 148 - Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3.
עמוד 91 - ... below the sofa, to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. I did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty. She made them a sign to play and dance. Four of them immediately began to play some soft airs on instruments between a lute and a guitar, which they accompanied with their voices, while the others danced by turns. This dance was very different from what I had seen before.