Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Through Egypt, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1835 - Middle East |
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... Give Us This Day from the beginning , and I thank all of you who have been its faithful readers over the years . While I originally wrote Give Us This Day primarily for the Reformed Episcopal Church in Hot Springs , Arkansas at which I ...
... Give Us This Day from the beginning , and I thank all of you who have been its faithful readers over the years . While I originally wrote Give Us This Day primarily for the Reformed Episcopal Church in Hot Springs , Arkansas at which I ...
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... give way to other aircraft of a different category in the following order , but under any circumstances , mechanically driven aircraft shall give way to aircraft which are seen to be towing other aircraft . ( a ) Airplanes and ...
... give way to other aircraft of a different category in the following order , but under any circumstances , mechanically driven aircraft shall give way to aircraft which are seen to be towing other aircraft . ( a ) Airplanes and ...
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... give His disciples a practical lesson in what can happen when there is a need and we trust Him to bless what we have so that need can be met. I believe it gives us opportunity to learn some principles about how the triune God is able to ...
... give His disciples a practical lesson in what can happen when there is a need and we trust Him to bless what we have so that need can be met. I believe it gives us opportunity to learn some principles about how the triune God is able to ...
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... give a considerably smaller gift. The difference between a comma and a decimal meant two fewer zeros. Their exhilaration disappeared like air out of a balloon. David sent an email from Kenya to the donor, insisting on re‐turning the ...
... give a considerably smaller gift. The difference between a comma and a decimal meant two fewer zeros. Their exhilaration disappeared like air out of a balloon. David sent an email from Kenya to the donor, insisting on re‐turning the ...
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... give up the pacifier when, after a few days, it will be trimmed so short there will no longer be anything to put in their mouth. If you do not decide to reduce the number of pacifiers at home to one, make sure you trim all of them. This ...
... give up the pacifier when, after a few days, it will be trimmed so short there will no longer be anything to put in their mouth. If you do not decide to reduce the number of pacifiers at home to one, make sure you trim all of them. This ...
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Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Through Egypt; Volume 2 François-René Chateaubriand No preview available - 2018 |
Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Through Egypt, Volume 2 Francois-Rene Chateaubriand,Frederic Shoberl No preview available - 2016 |
Travels to Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Through Egypt, Volume 2 Francois-Rene Chateaubriand No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 326 - Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping ; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.
Page 332 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Page 170 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 266 - Greeks might have their share in the glory of the day, he sent them presents out of the spoil : to the Athenians in particular he sent three hundred bucklers. Upon the rest of the spoils he put this pompous inscription : " Won by Alexander the son of Philip, and the Greeks (excepting the Lacedaemonians,) of the barbarians in Asia.
Page 350 - 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 328 - As the roof of this nave is wanting, the columns support nothing but a frieze of wood, which occupies the place of the architrave and of the whole entablature. Open timber-work rests upon the walls, and rises into the form of a dome, to support a roof that no longer exists, or that perhaps was never finished.
Page 222 - No farm-houses, or scarcely any, are to be seen in the country ; you observe no husbandmen, you meet no carts, no teams of oxen. Nothing can be more melancholy than never to be able to discover the marks of modern wheels, where you still perceive in the rock the traces of ancient ones.
Page 330 - I entered it, the superior put a taper into my hand, and repeated a brief exhortation. This sacred crypt is irregular, because it occupies the irregular site of the stable and the manger. It is thirty-seven feet six inches long, eleven feet three inches broad, and nine feet in height. It is hewn out of tne rock, the sides of which are 'faced with beautiful marble, and the floor is of the same material.
Page 305 - When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Page 181 - Pantheon, with its disproportionate pediment. The comparison may be easily made at Athens, where the Grecian architecture is often placed quite close to the architecture of Rome. I had fallen into a common error respecting the monuments of the Greeks : I had an idea that they were perfect as a whole, but deficient in grandeur...