Nile to Aleppo: With the Light-horse in the Middle-East

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G. Allen & Unwin, 1920 - 287 pages
This book is dedicated to the light horsemen of Australia and to the horses. While the author is unable to write about these horsemen, the purpose of the book is to "give a notion of the kind of country they lived in after Sinai, and of the great towns they road into during the final advance, and of the Cairo they knew in respite from the dust and boredom of the Valley."--Preface
 

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Page 61 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 61 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Page 61 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil-olive, and honey...
Page 123 - There is no other country in the world which could exhibit the same confluence of associations, as that which is awakened by the rocks which overhang the crystal stream of the Dog River, where it rushes through the ravines of Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea ; where side by side are to be seen the hieroglyphics of the great Rameses, the cuneiform characters of Sennacherib, and the Latin inscriptions of the Emperor Antoninus.
Page 169 - Let him not stay long in one city or town ; more or less as the place deserveth, but not long : nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town to another, which is a great adamant of acquaintance. Let him sequester himself from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth.
Page 60 - The countless ruins of Palestine, of whatever date they may be, tell us at a glance that we must not judge the resources of the ancient land by Its present depressed and desolate state. They show us not only that Syria might support tenfold Its present population, and bring forth tenfold its present product, but that It actually did so.
Page 93 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 169 - ... or book, describing the country where he travelleth, which will be a good key to his inquiry; let him keep also a diary; let him not stay long in one city or town, more or less as the place deserveth, but not long; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town to another, which is a great adamant...
Page 91 - But as a general rule, not only is it without the two main elements of beauty — variety of outline and variety of colour — but the features rarely so group together as to form any distinct or impressive combination. The tangled and featureless hills of the lowlands of Scotland...
Page 88 - Gaza1, where the Ethiopian met Philip. Hence the steep descent from Gadara is paved with the remains of a regular Roman road, marked by the ruts of wheels, where wheels have now never penetrated for at least a thousand years. But in earlier times, and under ordinary circumstances, chariots must have always been more or less impracticable in the mountain regions. It was in the plains, accordingly, that the enemies of Israel were usually successful. Another cause, not indeed for the success of the...

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