Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea |
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Akil ancient Arabs arch Aulick banks beach beautiful Bedawin Beïrût beneath boats Bosphorus camels camp cane caravan chasm Christian cliffs colour Constantinople Dale dark Dead Sea deep descended early east eastern Emir encampment Fanny Skinner feet high fellahin flowers Ghor green heat hill horses hour island Janissaries Jerusalem Jordan Kerak lake land light lofty looked luxuriant miles morning mosque Mount mountains Muhammed Muslim night party Pasha passed peninsula piastres plain Port Mahon present rapid ravine river rock round ruins sailed salt scene Sea of Galilee sea of Marmara seemed seen Semakh sheikh Sherîf shore short distance side sight slope Smyrna sound stones stream Sultan summit surface swept Syria tamarisk tarbouch tents terrace thence Tiberias tion tomb town trees tribe Turkish Turks Usdum valley village Wady walls wild wind yards
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Page 62 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 114 - Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Page 252 - And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
Page 386 - That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Page 145 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
Page 407 - I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness — creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity...
Page 77 - God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed
Page 320 - Mr. Murray, if you insist upon your bitter Osher simile, why shut your eyes to the palpable analogy suggested? Naturalists assert that the Solanum, or apple of Sodom, contains in its normal state neither dust nor ashes ; unless it is punctured by an insect, (the Tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rind entire, without any loss of color. Human life is as fair and tempting as the fruit of 'Ain Jidy,' till stung and poisoned by the Tenthredo of sin.
Page 308 - No bird fanned with its wing the attenuated air, through which the sun poured his scorching rays upon the mysterious element on which we floated, and which alone, of all the works of its Maker, contains no living thing within it.
Page 271 - But here, - above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone...