It is truly a curious and interesting fact/' adds a learned traveller, " that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems, and Christians, have been successively in possession of the rocky mountains of... A Geographical & Historical Dictionary of Palestine, Or, The Holy Land ... - الصفحة 55بواسطة J. C. Guest - 1852عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...thai, during a period of little more than 'two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems, ami Christians, have been successively in possession of...paternal soil, and is found, at this day, upon the same spotj which was called, by the Hebrew writers. " Mowtl Olivet "§ and " the Mount of Olives,'^ eleven... | |
| Augustin Calmet - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...Holy Land. It is truly a curious and an interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...of Palestine ; yet the olive still vindicates its parental soil, and is found, at this day, upon the same spot which was called by the Hebrew writers,... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...Holy Land. It is truly a curious and an interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...successively in possession of the rocky mountains of Palaesline ; yet the olive still vindicates its paternal soil, and is found, at this day, upon (he... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...the Holy Land. It is truly a curious and interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...soil, and is found, at this day, upon the same spot 9 which (1) It is highly probable that the supposed varieties of OLEA EUROPIA, at present enumerated... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...curious and interesting fact," adds the learned traveller, " that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...Olives, eleven centuries before the Christian era." * The Valley of J ehoshaphat, which lies between this mountain and the hills on which Jerusalem is... | |
| Rev. Robert Brown - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 176
...ditto, ditto. — It is truly a curious and interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...of Olives," eleven centuries before the Christian aera. — Dr. Clarhe's Travels, vol. 2. There are very few remains of the city, either as it was in... | |
| James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...vegetables having * " It is truly a curious and interesting fact, that during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...Mount of Olives, eleven centuries before the Christian a;ra." — Clarite's Travels, vol. ii. p. 588. f Threlkeld, flowers of this kind, belong to the fourteenth... | |
| Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore.) - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...observes, " it is truly a curious and interesting fact, that, during a period of little less than 7 two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...Olives,' eleven centuries before the Christian era. 2 Sam. xv. 30. Zech. xiv. 4." But I am diverting you in some degree from the subject of our sketch... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...Somner, 1669. Canterbury. Sebastian de Vauban, 1707. d. Paris. Dr. William Hunter, 1783. St. James's. The olive still vindicates its paternal soil, and...Olives, eleven centuries before the Christian era. Dr. Clarhe. Your shadow for yourself might almost pass ; 'Tis not your picture, but your looking-glass.—... | |
| Robert Seaton - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...size. The late Dr. Clarke observes, it is an interesting fact, that during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...in possession of the rocky mountains of Palestine 5 yet the olive still vindicates its paternal soil, and is found at this day upon the same spot which... | |
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