 | 1799 - 770 páginas
...muddy, and its wafer thought unwholefome. Indeed the water of the Nile is always fomewhat muddy ; but, by rubbing with bitter almonds, prepared in a particular manner, the earthen jars in which it is kept, this water is rendered clear, light, and fain fa. ry. The ufe of it is generally thought to be the... | |
 | Ern. Frid. Car Rosenmüller - 1836 - 706 páginas
...delicious and farfamed, Niebuhr says (Travels, Vol. I. p. 71) that the water is always somewhat muddy ; but by rubbing with bitter almonds, prepared in a particular...divided itself, and became into four heads, or chief rivers."1 In the following verse it is said, inNn bltf, the name of the first, viz. Win which is to... | |
 | Ern. Frid. Car Rosenmüller, Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmuller - 1836 - 388 páginas
...delicious and tarfamed, Niebuhr says (Travels, Vol. I. p. 71) that the water is always somewhat muddy ; but by rubbing with bitter almonds, prepared in a particular manner, the earthen jars in which ic is kept, it is rendered clear, light, and salutary. — M. after it had watered the garden) it divided... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 páginas
...into the water they found. Niebuhr, speaking of the Nile, observes, " The water is always muddy, but by rubbing with bitter almonds, prepared in a particular manner, the earthen jars in which it is kept, this water is rendered clear, light, and salutary;" and Mr Roberts, in his " Oriental Illustrations,"... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - 738 páginas
...to the water of the Nile. " The water of the Nile," says Niebuhr, " is always somewhat muddy ; but by rubbing with bitter almonds, prepared in a particular manner, the earthen jars in which it is kept, this water is rendered clear, light, and salutary." — BURDER. We travelled, says Burckhardt, over... | |
 | 1844 - 858 páginas
...branches of sassafras. Nicbuhr, speaking of the Nile, observes : ' The water is always somewhat muddy, but by rubbing with bitter almonds prepared in a particular manner the earthen jars in which it is kept, this water is rendered clear, light, and salutary.' KobcrU, in his ' Oriental Illustrations,' has some... | |
 | George Bush - 1854 - 694 páginas
...respect to the water of the Nile. " The water of the Nile," says Niebuhr, " is always somewhat muddy; but by rubbing with .bitter almonds, prepared in a particular manner, the earthen jars in which it is kept, this water is rendered clear, light, and salutary." —BURDER. This water, which was bitter or brackish,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1855 - 676 páginas
...speaking of the Nile, observes, ' The water is always somewhat muddy; but by rubbing with bitter almouds, 6 this water is rendered clear, light, and salutary.' Mr. Roberts, in his Oriental Illustrations, has... | |
 | George Bush - 1865 - 704 páginas
...water ot the Nile. " The water of the Nile," says Niebuhr, " is always somewhat muddy; but by nibbing d by his almighty arm routed then enemies. — PAXTON. Ver. 1 3. He made him ride on the hi this water is rendered clear, light, and salmarv." — BÜRDER. We travelled, says Burckhardt, over... | |
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Niebuhr says (Travels, Vol. I. p. 71) that the water is always somewhat muddy ; but by rubbing with bitter almonds, prepared in a particular manner, the earthen jars in which it is kept, it is rendered clear, light, and salutary — M. 