 | Idumaea - 1799 - 204 pages
...our minds were almost overwhelming. ... As we crossed the plain, our feelings were strongly aflected at finding here, so unexpectedly, a spot so entirely...to the Scriptural account of the giving of the Law It was for some time difficult to realize that we were now actually within the very precincts of that... | |
 | 1842 - 574 pages
...the' eastern mountain,— a fine broad valley affording the only easy access to the plain and conveut. As we crossed the plain our feelings were strongly affected, at finding here BO unexpectedly a spot so entirely adapted to the scriptural account of the giving of the law. No traveller... | |
 | 1841 - 730 pages
...access to the plain and convent. — As we crossed the plain our feelings were strongly afl'ected, at finding here so unexpectedly a spot so entirely...and general manner; probably because the most have readied the convent by another route without passing over it ; and perhaps, too, because neither the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 600 pages
...crossed the plain, their feelings were deeply affected, finding here, so unexpectedly, a spot perfectly adapted to the Scriptural account of the giving of the Law. No one has hitherto described this plain, nor even mentioned it, except in a slight and general manner... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pages
...crossed the plain, their feelings were deeply affected, finding here, so unexpectedly, a spot perfectly adapted to the Scriptural account of the giving of the Law. No one has hitherto described this plain, nor even mentioned it, except in a slight and general manner... | |
 | George Paxton - 1842 - 586 pages
...pass down eastward across the plain, forming the commencement of Wady-esh-Sheikh, which then crosses by an opening through the cliffs of the eastern mountain,...the scriptural account of the giving of the law. No travellers have described this plain, nor even mentioned it, except in a slight and general manner,... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pages
...valley, affording the only easy access to the plain and convent. As we crossed the plain our feeling» greater or less skill of the musician, by flattering the ear and diverting the attention, and occa Recount of the criving of tlio law. No traveller has described this plain, nor even mentioned it, except... | |
 | 1859 - 880 pages
...access to the plain and convent. As we crossed the plain, our feelings were strongly affected at rinding here so unexpectedly a spot so entirely adapted to...because the most have reached the convent by another j route, without passing over it, and perhaps, | too, because neither the highest point of Sinai, •... | |
 | Lobegott Friedrich Constantin Tischendorf - 1847 - 350 pages
...rose, like a wall, hefore us ; and one can approach quite to the foot and touch the mount. . ». . As we crossed the plain, our feelings were strongly...the scriptural account of the giving of the law." Vol. i. pp. 130 — 1 32. MAHOMET'S DROMEDARY. l05 the form and grouping of this whole mountain chain... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...twelve to fifteen hundred feet in height, and one can approach quite to the foot and touch the mount. As we crossed the plain, our feelings were strongly...unexpectedly a spot so entirely adapted to the scriptural narrative of the giving of the law. We measured across the plain, and estimated the whole at two geographical... | |
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As we crossed the plain, our feelings were strongly affected, at finding here so unexpectedly a spot so entirely adapted to the Scriptural account of the giving of the law. No traveller has described this plain, nor even mentioned it, except in a slight... 
