 | Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 pages
...Palaastina, or Palestine, derived that name from the Philistffii, who inhabited the coasts, but which, as it was the promised inheritance of the seed of...death of our Redeemer, we are accustomed to designate by the more religious appellation of the Holy Land. It is bounded on the North by Phoenicia and Coelesyria,... | |
 | Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1818 - 376 pages
...the scriptures : it is now in ruins. Palaestina, or Palestine, derived that name from the Philistaei, who inhabited the coast, but as it was the promised...Land. It is bounded on the North by Phoenicia and Coelesyria, on the East by Arabia Deserta, on the South by Arabia Petraea, and on the West by the Mediterranean,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Classical geography - 1835 - 272 pages
...is now almost in ruins. Palsestina, or Palestine, (PI. XVI.) derived that name from the Philistaei, who inhabited the coast, but as it was the promised...Land. It is bounded on the North by Phoenicia and Coelesyria, on the East by Arabia Deserta, on the South by Arabia Petraea, and on the West by the Mediterranean,... | |
 | John Lempriere - 1843 - 670 pages
...PAL^ESTINA, a district of Asia, named from the Philistffii or Philistines, who inhabited the coast. As it was the promised inheritance of the seed of Abraham, and scene of the birth, sufferings, and death of our Redeemer, we are accustomed to designate it the Holy... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical geography - 1850 - 790 pages
...the same stem with the Phoenicians. As it was, however, the promised inheritance of the descendants of Abraham, and the scene of the birth, sufferings,...by the more religious appellation of the Holy Land. II. Palestine was bounded on the north by C&le- Syria, on the northwest by Phoenicia, on the west by... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Geography, Ancient - 1855 - 292 pages
...CHAP. XIV. PAL.S:STINA. AG, Plates XVII. XVIII. , or Palestine, derived that name from the Philistaei ; but as it was the promised inheritance of the seed...the birth, sufferings, and death of our Redeemer^ we commonly designate it by the more religious appellation of The Holy Land. It is bounded on the north... | |
 | 1856 - 332 pages
...Philista'i, JL the ancient inhabitants of the coast, but it is commonly designated the Holy Land, as the promised inheritance of the seed of Abraham, and the scene of the birth, sufferings, and death of the Saviour. The country is overspread with picturesque ridges, inclosing plains and valleys, susceptible... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - Classical geography - 1860 - 364 pages
...Canaan, or Judwa. Among sacred authors the name Palsestina was used" 'by the prophet Isaiah, to denote the promised inheritance of the seed of Abraham, and...the scene of the birth, sufferings and death of our Lord. It is now -usually designated by the title of THE HOLY LAND. QUESTIONS. — What is said of Phoenicia's... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1860 - 620 pages
...Canaan, or Judaea. Among sacred authors the name Palasstina was used by the prophet Isaiah, to denote the promised inheritance of the seed of Abraham, and...the scene of the birth, sufferings and death of our Lord. It is now usually designated by the title of THE HOLY LAND. QUESTIONS. — What is said of Phoenicia's... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1876 - 818 pages
...the Philisteoi, the ancient inhabitants of the coast, but it is commonly designated the Holy Land, as the promised inheritance of the seed of Abraham, and...the birth, sufferings, and death of our Redeemer. The country is overspread with picturesque ridges, enclosiug plains and valleys, susceptible of extensive... | |
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Philistaei, who inhabited the coast, but as it was the promised inheritance of the seed of Abraham, and the scene of the birth, sufferings, and death of our Redeemer, we are accustomed to designate it by the more religious appellation of the Holy Land.... 