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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... side of the Dead Sea ; there are the students of profane history , who remember nothing but that Josephus says that the doomed cities lie buried in the deep ; there are the travellers and philosophers , who seek to explain phenomena by ...
... side of the Dead Sea ; there are the students of profane history , who remember nothing but that Josephus says that the doomed cities lie buried in the deep ; there are the travellers and philosophers , who seek to explain phenomena by ...
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... side of Jordan , as the coast of Moab , the country of the Emims , the land of Ar and of Aroer on the Arnon , and connected with Seir of the Edomites on the one side , and the land of Ammon on the other . In opposition to the same ...
... side of Jordan , as the coast of Moab , the country of the Emims , the land of Ar and of Aroer on the Arnon , and connected with Seir of the Edomites on the one side , and the land of Ammon on the other . In opposition to the same ...
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... side of the Dead Sea will not appear to any unbiassed person to be in any way conclusive ; yet M. de Saulcy assumes it as a point satisfactorily determined , and deduces thence that Sodom being in the same neigh- bourhood was also on ...
... side of the Dead Sea will not appear to any unbiassed person to be in any way conclusive ; yet M. de Saulcy assumes it as a point satisfactorily determined , and deduces thence that Sodom being in the same neigh- bourhood was also on ...
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... side , the plain grows gradually more narrow until it ends in the sea - shore , while on the south side it is im- mediately shut in by the mountains , of which the nearest to the sea is the Salt Mountain , a ridge extending for about ...
... side , the plain grows gradually more narrow until it ends in the sea - shore , while on the south side it is im- mediately shut in by the mountains , of which the nearest to the sea is the Salt Mountain , a ridge extending for about ...
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... side of this mountain . One of our Bedouins , who knew well that we should have that day a very long journey , being ill , and so not feeling himself in a condition to accomplish it , attempted to conduct us by the east side of the Salt ...
... side of this mountain . One of our Bedouins , who knew well that we should have that day a very long journey , being ill , and so not feeling himself in a condition to accomplish it , attempted to conduct us by the east side of the Salt ...
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