Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated: In a Series of Views Drawn from NatureFisher, 1836 - 256 páginas |
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... BANKS OF THE ORONTES. The Pilgrimage to Mecca is, perhaps, the highest excitement that life offers to the Mussulman : the lowliest condition, the most advanced age, or immeasurable distance — are no bar to its performance. From the ...
... BANKS OF THE ORONTES. The Pilgrimage to Mecca is, perhaps, the highest excitement that life offers to the Mussulman : the lowliest condition, the most advanced age, or immeasurable distance — are no bar to its performance. From the ...
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... bank was a stone tower, where a few soldiers kept their lonely look-out against the Arabs. Too impatient to drink in ... banks the pilgrims are seated, glides deliriously and coldly by, — how different from the fountains, scanty and far ...
... bank was a stone tower, where a few soldiers kept their lonely look-out against the Arabs. Too impatient to drink in ... banks the pilgrims are seated, glides deliriously and coldly by, — how different from the fountains, scanty and far ...
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... banks of the Bosphorus, or heard more awful sounds than the murmur of its waves, or their own fountains. The Mahometans, from the tomb of their prophet — halting on the ruins of Antioch, presented a mournful comment on the decline of ...
... banks of the Bosphorus, or heard more awful sounds than the murmur of its waves, or their own fountains. The Mahometans, from the tomb of their prophet — halting on the ruins of Antioch, presented a mournful comment on the decline of ...
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... bank beneath the fall was a pleasant resting-place, where the time fled unheeded away : and in the silence of the Eastern night there was something solemn in the rushing sound, as if the voice of the past was there, the glorious, the ...
... bank beneath the fall was a pleasant resting-place, where the time fled unheeded away : and in the silence of the Eastern night there was something solemn in the rushing sound, as if the voice of the past was there, the glorious, the ...
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... banks, still remain. The celebrated pass leading from Cilicia into Syria, through which Alexander marched, when he left Tarsus to fight the battle of Issus, is about twenty miles to the north of that town : it is a remarkable defile ...
... banks, still remain. The celebrated pass leading from Cilicia into Syria, through which Alexander marched, when he left Tarsus to fight the battle of Issus, is about twenty miles to the north of that town : it is a remarkable defile ...
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Syria, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, &c. Illustrated: In a Series of ..., Volumen1 John Carne,William Purser Vista de fragmentos - 1836 |
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Adana Alaya Aleppo Amanus amidst Anamour ancient Antioch Arab Asia Minor banks Barouk beautiful Bedouin Beilan beneath Beshir Beteddein camel Captain Beaufort caravan castle cedars Christians Cilicia cliffs coast Colonel Chesney covered Cydnus Damascus Daphne dark declivities desert distance divan Druses dwellings East Egypt Emir Euphrates fall feet forest gardens gates Girgius glory groves heights hill hour houses Ibrahim Pasha khan ladies land Lebanon light lonely look luxury magnificent Maronite merchants miles mosque Mount Taurus mountain murmur Nahr-el-Kelb night noble numerous Orontes Pacha palace pass Pharpar picturesque pilgrim pillars pipe plain precipices ravines rest rich river rock roof ruins scene seated sepulchres shadow Sheich shore side Sir Sydney Smith solitary sound stone stranger stream Suadeah summit Syria Tarsus Taurus temple tents tombs torrent towers town traveller trees Tripoli Turkish Turks valley village voice walls wandering waters wave wild wind