The Ansayrii, (or Assassins,): With Travels in the Further East, in 1850-51. Including a Visit to Ninevah, Volume 3R. Bentley, 1851 |
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Abdallah Aleppo Allah Amanus Ameer amidst Ansayrii Antioch Arab arrived Batroun beauty begged Beyrout building built called castle Christians church consul Damascus descended district Djebel Djisser door dressed east entered faith father feet Franks gardens Gebaile Greek groves height hill honour horses huge hundred Ibrahim Pasha inscription Kadmous Kalaat kavass Koords land Latakia Mahomet Maronites Merkab Mockatta Moslem mosque Mosul mountains Moutselim Mussulman Nahr nargilleh natives nizam Orontes passed perhaps piastres pillars plain poor pretty priest remains rest road rock rode round ruins Safyta sarcophagi sect seemed sent servants Sheik Hassan side soldiers spot stands stone story stream Sultan Syria tained Tartousa told tomb tower town trees Tripoli Turkish Turkoman Turks valley vaulted village wall whole wild women Yezidis Zapties
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Page 198 - Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive-yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
Page 426 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 112 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 405 - Out upon Time ! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time ! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 355 - There is no God but God, and Mahomet is the prophet of God.
Page 8 - And it shall be upon Aaron to minister : and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.
Page 457 - In the world's broad field of battle. In the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 416 - The sunken glen, whose sunless shrubs must weep, The tender azure of the unruffled deep, The orange tints that gild the greenest bough, The torrents that from cliff to valley leap, The vine on high, the willow branch below, Mix'd in one mighty scene, with varied beauty glow.
Page 280 - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us : and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Page 345 - They are a fine, large race, with more bone and muscle than is generally found among Orientals ; browner than the Osmanlee, but lighter, fairer than the Arab ; brown hair is not by any means uncommon. The women, when young, are handsome, often fair with light hair and jet black eyes ; or the rarer beauty of fair eyes and coal-black hair or eye-brows ; but exposure to the sun, and the labours they perform, soon wear them out.