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Page 287 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 263 - Arctic pole, and in the utmost southern regions. There is hardly any part of the world in which it has not been sought for — in Asia, in Africa, in Europe, in America, in Tartary, upon the banks of the Ganges; in the Indies, in China, in the island of Ceylon, in Armenia, under the Equator, in Mesopotamia, in Syria, in Babylon, in Arabia, in Palestine, in Ethiopia, where the mountains of the moon are near the mountains of Libanus, Anti-Libanus and Damascus.
Page 364 - Jews of Ispahan, and continue on earth forty days, of which one will be equal in length to a year, another to a month, another to a week, and the rest will be common days ; that he is to lay waste all places, but will not enter Mecca or Medina, which...
Page 220 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 266 - Kur-an, and sometimes applied to " other books of scripture," " from the verb 'faraka,' 'to divide* or ' distinguish ;' not, as the Mohammadan doctors say, because those books are divided into chapters or sections, or to distinguish between good and evil ; but in the same notion that the Jews use the word ' Perek,' or ' Pirka,' from the same root, to denote a section or portion of scripture.
Page 184 - It has been a chosen place for encampment in every contest carried on in this country, from the days of Nabuchodonosor, King of the Assyrians, until the disastrous march of Bonaparte from Egypt into Syria. Warriors out of " every nation which is under heaven...
Page 387 - ... and we set sail that day. The voyage was pleasant to us, and we ceased not to pass from sea to sea, and from island to island; and at every place where we cast anchor, we met the merchants and the grandees, and the sellers and buyers, and we sold and bought, and exchanged goods. Thus we continued to do until destiny conveyed us to a beautiful island, abounding with trees bearing ripe fruits, where flowers diffused their fragrance, with birds warbling, and pure rivers: but there was not in it...
Page 439 - Of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah. 13 And David gat him a name •when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
Page 317 - I escape from a calamity, I fall into another that is greater and more severe ! — Then I arose, and emboldened myself, and walked in that valley; and I beheld its ground to be composed of diamonds, with which they perforate minerals and jewels, and with which also they perforate porcelain and the onyx; and it is a stone so hard that neither iron nor rock have any effect upon it, nor can any one cut off aught from it, or break it, unless by means of the lead-stone.
Page 219 - I therefore imagined that a cloud had come over it; but this was in the season of summer: so I wondered; and I raised my head, and, contemplating that object attentively, I saw that it was a bird, of enormous size, bulky body, and wide wings, flying in the air; and this it was that concealed the body of the sun, and veiled it from view upon the island.