| Charles Butler - Bible - 1807 - 338 pages
...Cyclades, and a cluster of islands in the Ionian sea, among which is the Isola del Compare, the antient Ithaca. The present condition of this noble and ample...travels: — " Large territories dispeopled, or thinly in" habited ; goodly cities made desolate, " sumptuous buildings become ruins; glo" rious temples either... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1807 - 464 pages
...present remain waste and overgrowne with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thceves and murderers; large territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited;...goodly cities made desolate; sumptuous buildings become ruines, glorious temples either subverted, or prostituted to impietie; true religion discountenanced... | |
| TREUTTEL - 1828 - 794 pages
...present, remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers ; large territories dispeopled or thinly inhabited ;...desolate -. sumptuous buildings become ruins ; glorious temples either subverted or prostituted to impiety; true religion discountenanced or oppressed; all... | |
| John Price Durbin - Middle East - 1845 - 408 pages
...present remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers ; large territories dispeopled or thinly inhabited ;...desolate ; sumptuous buildings become ruins ; glorious temples either subverted or prostituted to impiety ; true religion discountenanced or oppressed ; no... | |
| George Fisk - Eretz Israel - 1845 - 562 pages
...remain waste and overgrown with bashes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves, and murderers ; lanx territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited ; goodly...desolate; sumptuous buildings become ruins; glorious temples either subverted or prostituted to impiety — true religion discountenanced and oppressed... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...remain waste and overgrown with bushes, recepta.-!« of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers ; lar^e ing in her air, who should be her leaders to such гшм( glorious temples either subverted, or prostituted to impiety ; true religion discountenanced... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...present remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers ; temples either subverted, or prostituted to impiety ; true religion discountenanced and oppressed;... | |
| George Fisk - Egypt - 1850 - 482 pages
...present remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves, and murderers; large territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited...desolate ; sumptuous buildings become ruins ; glorious temples either subverted or prostituted to impiety — true religion discountenanced and oppressed... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...present remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptacles of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers ; large territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited...desolate ; sumptuous buildings become ruins ; glorious temples either subverted, or prostituted to impiety ; true religion discountenanced and oppressed ;... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...present remain waste and overgrown with bushes, receptad« of wild beasts, of thieves and murderers ; large territories dispeopled, or thinly inhabited...cities made desolate ; sumptuous buildings become run»; plorious temples either subverted, or prostituted to impiety ; true religion discountenanced... | |
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