 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 430 էջ
...thai, during a period of little more than 'two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems, ami Christians, have been successively in possession of...paternal soil, and is found, at this day, upon the same spotj which was called, by the Hebrew writers. " Mowtl Olivet "§ and " the Mount of Olives,'^ eleven... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 էջ
...Holy Land. It is truly a curious and an interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...of Palestine ; yet the olive still vindicates its parental soil, and is found, at this day, upon the same spot which was called by the Hebrew writers,... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1814 - 428 էջ
...Holy Land. It is truly a curious and an interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...successively in possession of the rocky mountains of Palaesline ; yet the olive still vindicates its paternal soil, and is found, at this day, upon (he... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1823 - 490 էջ
...the Holy Land. It is truly a curious and interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...soil, and is found, at this day, upon the same spot 9 which (1) It is highly probable that the supposed varieties of OLEA EUROPIA, at present enumerated... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 398 էջ
...curious and interesting fact," adds the learned traveller, " that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...Olives, eleven centuries before the Christian era." * The Valley of J ehoshaphat, which lies between this mountain and the hills on which Jerusalem is... | |
 | Rev. Robert Brown - 1826 - 176 էջ
...ditto, ditto. — It is truly a curious and interesting fact, that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...of Olives," eleven centuries before the Christian aera. — Dr. Clarhe's Travels, vol. 2. There are very few remains of the city, either as it was in... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 էջ
...vegetables having * " It is truly a curious and interesting fact, that during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...Mount of Olives, eleven centuries before the Christian a;ra." — Clarite's Travels, vol. ii. p. 588. f Threlkeld, flowers of this kind, belong to the fourteenth... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 էջ
...Somner, 1669. Canterbury. Sebastian de Vauban, 1707. d. Paris. Dr. William Hunter, 1783. St. James's. The olive still vindicates its paternal soil, and...Olives, eleven centuries before the Christian era. Dr. Clarhe. Your shadow for yourself might almost pass ; 'Tis not your picture, but your looking-glass.—... | |
 | Robert Seaton - 1836 - 124 էջ
...size. The late Dr. Clarke observes, it is an interesting fact, that during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...in possession of the rocky mountains of Palestine 5 yet the olive still vindicates its paternal soil, and is found at this day upon the same spot which... | |
 | Francis Arundale - 1837 - 182 էջ
...with indifference. It is truly a curious and interesting fact that during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems,...Olives,* eleven centuries before the Christian era." On our return from this spot, so richly fraught with the most stirring associations, we proceeded to... | |
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It is truly a curious and interesting fact/' adds a learned traveller, " that, during a period of little more than two thousand years, Hebrews, Assyrians, Romans, Moslems, and Christians, have been successively in possession of the rocky mountains of... 
