Voyages and Travels in the Levant in the Years 1749, 50, 51, 52: Containing Observations in Natural History, Physick, Agriculture, and Commerce: Particularly on the Holy Land, and the Natural History of the Scriptures |
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... ancients thought there was no land , and were fo near the shore that fome Linnets ( Fringilla ) reached us , and wearied out , fought a night's reft in the fhelter of our fails . THE 30th , as we were failing in the Spanish feas , the ...
... ancients thought there was no land , and were fo near the shore that fome Linnets ( Fringilla ) reached us , and wearied out , fought a night's reft in the fhelter of our fails . THE 30th , as we were failing in the Spanish feas , the ...
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... ancient , My conjectures were confirmed by Mr. Peyfonell , the French Conful , who hath much knowledge in what relates to Gre- cian antiquities . He told me , that some monuments of marble had been found , on which this dance was ...
... ancient , My conjectures were confirmed by Mr. Peyfonell , the French Conful , who hath much knowledge in what relates to Gre- cian antiquities . He told me , that some monuments of marble had been found , on which this dance was ...
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... ancients care for the conve- niency of travellers . We met alfo with ftone- bridges , which feemed too good to be built by the people who now inhabit the country . They were formerly of more use than at prefent , as the river must have ...
... ancients care for the conve- niency of travellers . We met alfo with ftone- bridges , which feemed too good to be built by the people who now inhabit the country . They were formerly of more use than at prefent , as the river must have ...
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... ancient times , as may be feen by the travels in the Old Teftament . Sweetmeats , tea , or fome fuch mat- ters , are what a traveller had beft offer , as they are acceptable . When I first came in , he was engaged in more important ...
... ancient times , as may be feen by the travels in the Old Teftament . Sweetmeats , tea , or fome fuch mat- ters , are what a traveller had beft offer , as they are acceptable . When I first came in , he was engaged in more important ...
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... ancient inhabitants of thefe places , whofe greatest diverfions confifted in feats of ac- tivity , ftill remains . I went back to Mufelem , and being now admitted to a hearing , was received with much politenefs . He was fo young that ...
... ancient inhabitants of thefe places , whofe greatest diverfions confifted in feats of ac- tivity , ftill remains . I went back to Mufelem , and being now admitted to a hearing , was received with much politenefs . He was fo young that ...
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Page 283 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 61 - THEY take the moft poifonous vipers with their bare hands, play with them, put them in their bofoms, and ufe a great many more tricks with them, as I have often feen. The perfon I faw on the above day, had only a fmall viper ; but I have frequently feen them handle thofe that were three or four feet long, and of the moft horrid fort.
Page 61 - Beings. I do not know whether their power is to be afcribed to good or evil; but I am perfuaded that thofe who undertake it ufe many fuperftitions.
Page 188 - Falcon, which flew in a direft line, like an arrow, and attacked the animal, fixing the talons of one of his feet into the cheek of the creature, and the talons of the other into its throat, extending his wings obliquely over the animal ; fpreading one towards one of its ears, and the other to the oppofite hip.
Page 127 - Turpentine-tree ; but farther towards Jericho, they are bare and barren. The vales, like the hills, are not fruitful, but deferted and uncultivated, being full of pebbles, and without vegetables ; neverthelefs, the earth confifts of a good red mould, and would amply reward the hufbandman's toil.
Page 63 - Viperae officinales, which were not fond of their lodging. They found means to creep out before the bottle could be corked. They crept over the hands and bare arms of the woman, without occasioning the...
Page 65 - ... serpents depends upon this circumstance. We see by this, that they know how to make use of the same means used by other nations ; namely, to hide under the superstitious cloak of religion what may be easily and naturally explained, especially when they cannot or will not explain the natural reason. I am inclined to think that all which was formerly, and is yet, reckoned witchcraft, might come under the same article with the fascination of serpents. The discovery of a small matter may in time...
Page 6 - Wine ferments, it ads on thefe fine particles, and the motion thereby occafioned is fufficient to mix them with the Wine, which by thefe means, contains all the virtues of the grape and flower. I know that the Greek...
Page 160 - OS] hanging ripe on the stem, which lay withered on the ground. From the season in which this mandrake blossoms and ripens fruit, one might form a conjecture that it was Rachel's dudaim. These were brought her in the wheat harvest, which in Galilee is in the month of May, about this time, and the mandrake was now in fruit.