The Druses of the LebanonRichard Bentley, 1855 - 422 pages |
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Abou Shein Akals amongst amusement appearance ARABIC LANGUAGE arrived baksheesh beautiful Beyrout bird breeze bride bridegroom Brummana CHAPTER cocoons coffee Creator creed Damascus daughter Deir-il-Kamar distant divan Djezzar door Druse Druse's house earth Emir Emir's European faith Fakereddeen father finjans flowers fruit girl guests hand happy head heart hill Hivites honour horses hospitality hour Houran Ibrahim Pasha IDUMEA immediately inhabiting Kaem KARKAFÉ labour ladies land land of Goshen Lebanon look Maronites Meanwhile mind monks morning Mount Lebanon mountains narghilès natives nature neighbours never night occasion Ottoman ourselves palace Pasha pass peasant peculiar perfect petrifaction piastres pipe position possessed present priest reeling remain remarkable repast repose respect round seated sheik side Sidon silk song Soul spirit stranger Sultan Syria tarboosh terrible travellers trees tribes Turkish Turks village whilst whole wife wild women yard young
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Page 59 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
Page 330 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the, sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 20 - Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive, and honey...
Page 181 - What would you give, my lad, to know about the Argonauts?" "Sir, (said the boy) I would give what I have.
Page 374 - But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. 43 But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister : 44 And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. 45 For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Page 267 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon It the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Page 21 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page i - I passed; for it is impossible that any thing should be universally tasted and approved by a multitude, though they are only the rabble of a nation, which hath not in it some peculiar aptness to please and gratify the mind of man.
Page 267 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 149 - Among bridesmen and kinsmen, and brothers and all: Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword, (For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word), " O, come ye in peace here or come ye in war, Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar...