The Lebanon: Mount Souria. A history and a diary, Volume 11860 |
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Abaye Abdallah Pasha Abou Niket Achmet Aleppo Amad ancient Anti-Lebanon appear Arabs Baalbec Beled Bsharré Beyrout Bkkaa brother Caliph century chiefs Christians Constantinople Crusaders Deir el Cammar districts Druzes Egypt Egyptians Emin Effendi Emir Beshir Emir Hassan Emir Hydar Emir Jusuff Empire Europe Fakreddeen favour France Gebail Gebel Government Grand Vizir Greek Hashbaya Hauran Ibrahim Pasha Ibtedeen inhabitants investiture Islam Ismael Jezzar Jezzin Jumbellat Kesroan land Lebanon Ledja Maan Maronite Mehemet Mehemet Ali ment Meten Metuali Mirdites Monophysites mountain Mussulman Nosaïri numbers occupied Ottoman Ottoman Empire partizans Pasha of Acre Pasha of Damascus Pasha of Saïda piastres population Porte possession Prince proselytism race refuge religion rock Romans Russian Saïd Bey Saladin Saracens sent Shaab Sheik Beshir Shouf sons of Jusuff Suleyman Pasha Sultan Syria Tebnin Tenhouk terraces tion Treaty tribe Tripoli troops Turkish Turks Tyre village Waddy el Teïm walls whilst
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Page 279 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two fold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Page 13 - And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. 7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. 8 And we took at that time...
Page 264 - Sultan has been enabled to offer us a more determined and regular resistance, whilst he had scarcely assembled together the elements of his new plan of reform and ameliorations, how formidable should we have found him, had he had time to give it more solidity, and to render that barrier impenetrable which we find so much difficulty in surmounting, although art has hitherto done so little to assist nature.
Page 13 - And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon ; (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir...
Page 264 - The Emperor has put the Turkish system to the proof, and His Majesty has found it to possess a commencement of physical and moral organization which it hitherto had not. If the Sultan has been enabled to offer us a more determined and regular resistance, whilst he had scarcely assembled together the elements of his new plan of reform and ameliorations, how formidable should we have found him had he had time to give it more solidity, and to render that barrier impenetrable which we...
Page 176 - Constantine pursued, with pious hatred, a people of soldiers, who might have stood the bulwark of his empire against the common foes of Christ and of Rome. An army of Greeks invaded Syria ; the monastery of St. Maron was destroyed with fire ; the bravest chieftains were betrayed and murdered ; and twelve thousand of their followers were transplanted to the distant frontiers of Armenia and Thrace. Yet the humble nation of the Maronites has survived the empire of Constantinople, and they still enjoy,...
Page 257 - The man came to me for his bakshish, and then returned to the knight to kiss hands. He covered the operation by the aside—" Sad devils these Metuali j the}- are our Roman Catholics." We had now to descend a steep gorge of piled fragments of rock matted with prickly oak. Our horses' bridles were thrown to the servants, and we leisurely commenced our descent on foot, an operation to which my companion seemed as little used as suited. His breath was not, however, affected, so he commenced his promised...
Page 264 - ... new plan of reform and ameliorations, how formidable should we have found him, had he had time to give it more solidity, and to render that barrier impenetrable which we find so much difficulty in surmounting, although art has hitherto done so little to assist nature ! J "Things being in this state, we must congratulate ourselves upon having attacked them before they became more dangerous for us...
Page 132 - Emir has to deal neither with factions nor classes, but with a party of gamblers. They stretch out their hands to him for the dice and the cards, and his business is to cog the one, and to prick the other. The stakes for which they throw are the vines of a neighbour, not to enjoy,, but to dig up; his mulberries, to hack; his terraces, to level - } his canals., to break down; his house, to set fire to ; his eyes to put out, and his throat to strangle. If the work ceases for a time, suddenly it recurs...
Page 392 - Tromelias ; it occurred to me that this must be of the nature of yaourt (lebben). I made the experiment, and by turning boiled milk with a fig branch at once obtainad yaourt. I afterwards found that in the island of Scio, when they are in want of the leaven of yaourt, they make use of the same process.* The racou takes four okes of grapes to make one oke ; the jibes five : the first is worth 40 paras, and the second 00.