 | 1857 - 992 pages
...country. By the side of the Nahr-el-Kelb, (Dog River,) just above Beyrout, are to be seen, side by side, the hieroglyphics of the great Rameses, the cuneiform...the Latin inscriptions of the Emperor Antoninus." " Above all countries in the world, it is a Land of Ruins. There is no country where they are so numerous,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1856 - 524 pages
...the chief conflicts of Rome with Asia. There is no other country in the world, Mr. Stanley remarks, which could exhibit the same confluence of associations...to be seen the hieroglyphics of the great Rameses (a fact which the French archaeologist De Saulcy persists in denying), the cuneiform characters of... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1856 - 710 pages
...associations, as that which is awakened by the rocks which overhang the crystal stream of the Dog River1, where it rushes through the ravines of Lebanon into...the Latin inscriptions of the Emperor Antoninus'. IV. This is the most convenient place for noticing a peculiarity of the present aspect of Palestine,... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1856 - 622 pages
...contact between the two worlds, becomes the scene of the chief conflicts of Rome with Asia.5 There is no other country in the world which could exhibit...rocks which overhang the crystal stream of the Dog River,6 where it rushes through the ravines of Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea ; where side by side... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1856 - 642 pages
...contact between the two worlds, becomes the scene of the chief conflicts of Rome with Asia,. There is no other country in the world which could exhibit...the rocks which overhang the crystal stream of the I)og River', where it rushes through the ravines of Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea ; where side... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...country. By the side of the Nahr el-Kelb, (Dog River,) just above Beyrout, are to be seen, side by side, the hieroglyphics of the great Rameses, the cuneiform...the Latin inscriptions of the Emperor Antoninus." " Above all countries in the world, it is a Land of Ruins. There is no country where they are so numerous,... | |
 | William Howse Groser - 1860 - 196 pages
...rocks that saw and owu'd their God;" — independently of these, Palestine is no ordinary land. " There is no other country in the world which could exhibit...which overhang the crystal stream of the Dog River (Lycus), where it rushes through the ravines of Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea; where, side by... | |
 | 1861 - 792 pages
...of contaet between the two worlds, becomes the scene of the chief confliets of Rome with Asia. There is no other country in the world which could exhibit...of associations, as that which is awakened by the rooks which overhaug the crystal stream of the Dog river, where it rushes through tho ravines of Lebanon... | |
 | John Davidson - 1869 - 374 pages
...of contact between the two worlds, becomes the scene of the chief conflicts of Rome with Asia. There is no other country in the world which could exhibit the same confluence of associations. In the ravines of Lebanon are to be seen the hieroglyphics of the great Barneses, the cuneiform characters... | |
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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... 
