Letters from the East:: Written During a Recent Tour Through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, Syria, and Greece, כרך 1Henry Colburn, 1826 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
abode amidst amusing apartment appearance Arabs Armenian arrived beautiful Bedouins Beirout beneath Cairo camels chief coffee convent cottage covered Damascus dark Dead Sea deep delightful desert distance dress Egypt Engedi entered excellent eyes fathers feet floor foot garden Greece Greek habitation hand handsome hills inhabitants janizaries Jews journey lady latter light lived lofty looked luxury Mamelukes merchant miles minaret monks Morea morning mosque Mount Mount Lebanon mountains never night Nile Pacha palace passed path piastres pilgrims pillars plain poor precipices priests residence rich rocks round ruins sand scene seated seen sepulchre shade sherbet shore side Sidon Sinai situation soldiers soon spot stood stream streets summit supper Syria temple tent Tiberias tion tomb took town traveller trees Tripolizza Turkish Turks Upper Egypt valley verdure village walk walls wild wilderness wine women young Ziph
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 585 - Wadenho, he was a watchful shepherd ; " in the day the drought consumed him, and the frost by night, and sleep departed from his eyes.
עמוד 293 - Hippicus, and hard by two others were erected by King Herod in the old wall. These were for largeness, beauty, and strength beyond all that were in the habitable earth; for besides the magnanimity of his nature and his...
עמוד 330 - Israel saw that they were straitened (for the people were distressed), they hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in dens, and in pits.
עמוד 259 - Judgement on the south side of the city. How interesting was her aspect, beheld over the deep and rocky valley of Hinnom ! her gloomy walls encompassing Mount Zion on every side ; and, as yet there was no sound to disturb the silence of the scene. The beautiful Mount of Olives was on the right, and at its feet the valley of Jehoshaphat, amidst whose great rocks and trees stood the tomb of...
עמוד 588 - Now Baalath being an important post, and not far from Damascus, we may readily believe that it would be one of the first cities attacked by Rezon and the Syrians ; this might have caused a suspension, or a total cessation of the works, which is corroborated...
עמוד 292 - All these rocks are hewn into sepulchres of various forms and sizes ; no doubt they were the tombs of the ancient Jews, and are in general cut with considerable care and skill. They are often the resting-place of the benighted passenger.
עמוד 290 - ... six fine venerable olive trees, which have stood here for many centuries. This spot is at the foot of Olivet, and is beautifully situated ; you look up and down the romantic valley; close behind rises the mountain ; before you are the walls of the devoted city. While lingering here, at evening...
עמוד 298 - The whole appearance of the place is romantic : and the prophet might have resided here, while exercising his ministry, with very little hardship ; the neighbourhood still, no doubt, produces excellent honey, which is to be had throughout Palestine. High up the rocky side of the hill on the left, amidst a profusion of trees, is the cave or grotto of St. John. A fountain gushes out close by. When we talk of wildernesses, mountains, and plains in Palestine, it is to be understood that they seldom answer...