New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 102. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1854 |
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... Dead Sea , would certainly constitute one of the most remarkable events in the history of research in Holy Land . No wonder that the report of such a discovery having been made should excite inquiry and arouse discussion . There are the ...
... Dead Sea , would certainly constitute one of the most remarkable events in the history of research in Holy Land . No wonder that the report of such a discovery having been made should excite inquiry and arouse discussion . There are the ...
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... Dead Sea itself the Lake of Zûghar ( xii . pp . 148 , 156 ) . Eusebius and Jerome describe the Dead Sea as situated between Jericho and Zoar ; whence Cellarius justly deduced that Jericho being to the north - westward , Zoar must be ...
... Dead Sea itself the Lake of Zûghar ( xii . pp . 148 , 156 ) . Eusebius and Jerome describe the Dead Sea as situated between Jericho and Zoar ; whence Cellarius justly deduced that Jericho being to the north - westward , Zoar must be ...
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... Dead Sea that nothing would die therein , which had been proved by men that have been cast therein , and left three or four days ; iron , he said , would float on its waters and a feather sink ; things , he justly remarks , contrary to ...
... Dead Sea that nothing would die therein , which had been proved by men that have been cast therein , and left three or four days ; iron , he said , would float on its waters and a feather sink ; things , he justly remarks , contrary to ...
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... Dead Sea , it should not have been noticed by the sacred historians , and alluded to by the poets . And we may be almost certain , that if it had remained when the Book of Genesis was written , the frequent formula , that it was there 4 ...
... Dead Sea , it should not have been noticed by the sacred historians , and alluded to by the poets . And we may be almost certain , that if it had remained when the Book of Genesis was written , the frequent formula , that it was there 4 ...
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... dead , and became a stiffened corpse , fixed for the time to the soil by saline or bituminous incrustations . The par- ticle of similitude must here , as in other passages of Scripture , be under- stood , " like a pillar of salt . " It ...
... dead , and became a stiffened corpse , fixed for the time to the soil by saline or bituminous incrustations . The par- ticle of similitude must here , as in other passages of Scripture , be under- stood , " like a pillar of salt . " It ...
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