Damascus and Palmyra: A Journey to the East. With a Sketch of the State and Prospects of Syria, Under Ibrahim Pasha, المجلد 2R. Bentley, 1838 - 484 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 96 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
الصفحة 243 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
الصفحة 213 - And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man ; and he hasted to dress it. 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.
الصفحة 133 - And, as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
الصفحة 53 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
الصفحة 130 - Fond wretch! as if her step disturb'd the dead! Away! we know that tears are vain, That death nor heeds nor hears distress: Will this unteach us to complain? Or make one mourner weep the less? And thou — who tell'st me to forget, Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.
الصفحة 180 - Praise be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful ; the King of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of Thee do we beg assistance.
الصفحة 243 - So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
الصفحة 79 - Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high ? even against the Holy One of Israel.
الصفحة 226 - hand should be against every man, and every man's hand against them...