Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean: Including a Visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With Observations on the Present State and Prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the Climate, Natural History and Antiquities of the Countries VisitedW. Curry, jun., 1844 - 648 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 88
עמוד 20
... face of the country is poor and barren , composed mostly of granite rock , with scarcely any soil , but what little exists is clothed with that beautiful heath the erica ciliaris ; and small scattered clumps of pine , like fox - covers ...
... face of the country is poor and barren , composed mostly of granite rock , with scarcely any soil , but what little exists is clothed with that beautiful heath the erica ciliaris ; and small scattered clumps of pine , like fox - covers ...
עמוד 26
... face of the earth use tobacco in one shape or other . Not meaning any slander on this respectable institution , I may observe , that there is a very extensive foundling hospital in Corunna , the reception - cradle of which is not ...
... face of the earth use tobacco in one shape or other . Not meaning any slander on this respectable institution , I may observe , that there is a very extensive foundling hospital in Corunna , the reception - cradle of which is not ...
עמוד 35
... faces and hands of both mother and child are black : -this is negro conci- liation ! Behind this central altar , the Holy Crows of Saint Vincent are quartered ; the priests are rather chary of exhibiting them at present , and the day I ...
... faces and hands of both mother and child are black : -this is negro conci- liation ! Behind this central altar , the Holy Crows of Saint Vincent are quartered ; the priests are rather chary of exhibiting them at present , and the day I ...
עמוד 38
... faces of innumerable angels and seraphs . The clustering of figures on the walls is , if any thing , too thick ; the eye becomes wearied , not finding a single unoccupied spot whereon to rest . The architecture pre- served in the doors ...
... faces of innumerable angels and seraphs . The clustering of figures on the walls is , if any thing , too thick ; the eye becomes wearied , not finding a single unoccupied spot whereon to rest . The architecture pre- served in the doors ...
עמוד 43
... face of smiling nature . As we turned through one of the arches , to examine some plants at a little distance , we suddenly came upon the corpse of a man , who had but a few hours before thrown himself from the battlement above ; and ...
... face of smiling nature . As we turned through one of the arches , to examine some plants at a little distance , we suddenly came upon the corpse of a man , who had but a few hours before thrown himself from the battlement above ; and ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
afford Alexandria Algiers ancient animals antiquity appearance Arabs arches Asia Minor basalt Básha beautiful Bedawees beneath Cairo called centre chamber Christian Cleopatra's needles climate coast colour Corunna covered distance Egypt Egyptian English entrance erected feet French Funchal gate Gibraltar Greek Guanches harbour head height Herodotus hills Holy horses houses inhabitants island Jerusalem Jews Josephus Kabyles Kastelorizo land light look Madeira marble miles modern Mohammad Alee Mohammadan Mooslim morning mosque Mount Mount Sion mountains natives night ornamented passed peculiar persons pillars plain Pompey's pillar present probably purple pyramids remains remarkable residence rise rock roof round ruins sand scene seen sepulchre shore side similar Sion Sooltan specimens spot square stones supposed surrounded Syria Telmessus temple Teneriffe tion tombs tower town traveller Turkish Turks Tyre valley vessels wall whole wind
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 442 - Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
עמוד 503 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see them to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
עמוד 351 - Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold...
עמוד 296 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates ; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
עמוד 361 - Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon ; and my servants shall be with thy servants : and...
עמוד 633 - And this is the offering which ye shall take of them ; gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats
עמוד 103 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
עמוד 180 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
עמוד 353 - The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, And to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
עמוד 637 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.