 | 1822 - 696 lehte
...than shocked by the relentless and brutal hostility by which they were shattered ana ove'rf>r'»um, and utterly removed from our sight. A few gardens...away; and the graves of the ancient dead are open and tenautless. How is the gold become dim ; and every thing that was pleasant to the eye withdrawn. Jerusalem... | |
 | 1823 - 908 lehte
...cultivation ; the fences are broken down, and the olive-trees decaying, as if the hand thatdressed and fed them were withdrawn , the Mount of Olives...doubt whether to come to maturity, or die in the ear." (Vol. ii. pp. 251, 258.) The correctness of the observations in the former part of this passage cannot... | |
 | 1823 - 610 lehte
...still in a sort of ruined cultivation: tbe-fences are broken down, and the olive-trees decaying, a« if the hand that dressed and fed them were withdrawn....land: the vineyards are wasted : the hedges are taken •way : and the graves of the ancient dead •re open and lenaniless. How is the gold become dim,... | |
 | 1823 - 396 lehte
...trees decaying, as if the hand that dressed and fed them were withdrawn; the Mount of Olives stift retains a languishing verdure, and nourishes a few...was brought from Egypt is cut off from the midst of tire land ; the vineyards are wasted ; the hedges are taken away ; and the graves of the ancient dead... | |
 | 1823 - 494 lehte
...languishing verdure, and nourishes a few of those trees from which it derives its name : but all around about Jerusalem, the general aspect is blighted and...cut off from the midst of the land ; the vineyards afe wasted ; the hedges are taken away ; and the graves of the ancient dead are open and tenantless.... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 398 lehte
...olive trees decaying, as if the hand that dressed and fed them were withdrawn ; the Mount of Olivea still retains a languishing verdure, and nourishes...graves of the ancient dead are open and tenantless." The Jerusalem that now is, is still a respectable, good-looking town, of an irregular shape, approaching... | |
 | 1822 - 768 lehte
...languishing verdure, and nourishes a few of those trees from which it derives its name : but all around about Jerusalem, the general aspect is blighted and...the ear. The vine that was, brought from Egypt is cat Western Asia. — Jerusalem. 593 off from the midst of the land ; the vineyards are1 wasted ; the... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1832 - 360 lehte
...looks through the scanty sward ; and the grain itself, like the staring progeny of famine, seems to doubt whether to come to maturity, or die in the ear....graves of the ancient dead are open and tenantless." NOTE (9), page 112. " Why did he not take with him all his disciples ? Lest they should fall. Those... | |
 | 1823 - 890 lehte
...cultivation -, the Mount of Olives still retains a languishing verdure, and nourishes a few of those ttccs from which it derives its name ; but all round about...seems in doubt whether to come to maturity or die." P. 252. The present Jerusalem has six gates, and our author walked round the whole walls on the outside... | |
 | Lant Carpenter - 1838 - 504 lehte
...is withered, the bare rock looks through the scanty sward, and the green itself, like the starving progeny of famine, seems in doubt whether to come to maturity or die in the ear." The contrast between Dr. Richardson's representations of the places he visited, and Mr. Carne's, in his... | |
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... the Mount of Olives still retains a languishing verdure, and nourishes a few of those trees from which it derives its name ; but all round about Jerusalem the general aspect is blighted, and barren ; the grass is withered ; the bare rock looks through... 
