Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl El Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the ʼAláh, Volume 2 (Google eBook)

Sir Richard Francis Burton, Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake

Tinsley brothers, 1872 - Ethnology

Contents

• Return March through the AntiLibanus to Bludan: 68
• Notes on the Northern Slopes of Lebanon: 124
• On some Ruins in Jebel el Zowi: 208
• Anthropological Collections from the Holt Land: 227
• 11: 261
• Suggestions of Readings fob the Greek Inscriptions: 378
• Plants from the Lebanon in the British Museum Her: 389

Popular passages

Page 329 - Then he took his eldest son, that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel ; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.‎

Page 328 - And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle ? And he said, I will go up : I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses.‎

Page 328 - And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as blood: 23 And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.‎

Page 328 - For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water : and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts.‎

Page 329 - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom : but they could not.‎

Page 227 - ... something in him yet to come out. This is the secret of England's freedom from revolution and conspiracies : she has free discussion. Wrongs do not smoulder silently, to burst forth unexpectedly. Every grievance may have a hearing, and not being pent up, spends itself before it is dangerous. " The land where, girt by friend or foe, A man may speak the thing he will...‎

Page 296 - Josné au moment de sa sépulture. » M. de Saulcy, dans son voyage en Palestine, n'avait pas hésité à dire dans sa confiance absolue au récit des Livres saints, que ces couteaux de pierre devaient exister encore dans le tombeau retrouvé de Josué *. M. l'abbé Moigno, mon...‎

Page 295 - J'en ai trouvé aussi dans le champ qui est devant le tombeau et jusque sous un grand chêne vert éloigné de la tombe de Josué d'environ 70 à 80 mètres ; ils auraient ainsi élé disséminés quand on a fouillé et violé le tombeau.‎

Page 297 - J'y suis allé, et je les ai trouvés :). » Quant aux conclusions que l'on peut tirer de mes instruments, aux arguments qu'ils peuvent apporter ou aux objections qu'ils fourniront contre les théories mises en avant par les diverses écoles anthropologiques ou biologiques modernes, je les laisse de côté. » Si mes silex historiques ressemblent, à s'y méprendre, par leur nature et leur forme, aux silex que l'on veut être essentiellement préhistoriques, je...‎

Page 296 - C'est du silex généralement; il y en a aussi en calcaire blanchâtre qui semble avoir passé par le feu. « J'ai l'espoir, continue M. l'abbé Richard, que ces instruments du tombeau de Josué et ceux dont j'ai parlé d'abord intéresseront les amateurs si nombreux et si éclairés de l'archéologie humaine, que l'Association compte dans son sein; et en les soumettant à votre appréciation...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl El Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the ʼAláh, Volume 2; Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl El Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the ʼAláh, Unexplored Syria: Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl El Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the ʼAláh
• Authors: Sir Richard Francis Burton, Charles F. Tyrwhitt Drake
• Publisher: Tinsley brothers, 1872
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Jan 17, 2007