Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and PalestineLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 - 669 pages |
Other editions - View all
Travels Among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and ... James Silk Buckingham No preview available - 2022 |
Common terms and phrases
Adjeloon Aleppo ancient appeared Arabs arch ascended Assalt Babington Bankes Bankes's Barker bazārs Bedouin Bombay Bosra Buckingham building Burckhardt Calcutta called castle centre character Christians copy Damascus Desert distance door Druses dwellings east eastern eastward edifice Egypt England feet foot former Geraza Greek ground half an hour halted Hamah Hauran hence hewn hill honour India inhabitants inscription James Silk Buckingham Jebel Jedda Jerash Jerusalem Jordan journey Karak Lady Hester Stanhope Lebanon letter masonry miles Mohammedan mosque mountains nearly original Palestine Palmyra party passage passed persons Phoenicia piastres pillars plain portion present Quarterly Review remains road rock Roman ruins Saracen sarcophagi sculptured seated seen sent side spot square stone stream summit Syria temple theatre thence Tiberias tion tomb tower town Travels in Palestine Turkish valley village walls whole William John Bankes
Popular passages
Page 614 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 163 - ... in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Page 626 - WHO shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me...
Page 209 - WHO is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Page 402 - And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.
Page 54 - I AM black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Page 657 - Fraternity is the reciprocal affection, the sentiment which inclines man to do unto others as he would that others should do unto him.
Page 614 - Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, and cried with a loud voice, and said, what have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou son of the most high God ? I adjure thee by God, that t'nou torment me not.
Page 601 - What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he armed, that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
Page 622 - Indies, do hereby certify and attest, unto all whom it may concern, that the...