 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Palestine - 1856 - 710 pages
...Doves* — sacred by immemorial legends on the spot, and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius, — still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens...grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls. These cities, thus situated on the grand route of the invaders of Palestine from north or south, have... | |
 | Henry Day - 1857 - 62 pages
...immemorial legends on the spot, and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius, — still fill with the1r cooings the luxuriant gardens which grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls. Diodorus Sic »I us , (1i. 4.) gives the legendary history of these Sacred Doves. From the wide wilderness... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Extinct cities - 1859 - 250 pages
...deemed the haunt of the Syrian Venus ; and the same traveller tells that the doves consecrated to her still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens...grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls. These things, with the fact that our Richard held his court in Askelon, while the white-faced hill... | |
 | Publius Ovidius Naso - 1862 - 374 pages
...legends on the spot, " and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius— still fill with " their cooiugs the luxuriant gardens which grow in the sandy " hollow within the ruined walls (of Ascalon)". Stanley' 'i Palestine, Chap. vj. p. 257. 48. Albis, " whitened," under the idea that... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...Doves — sacred of immemorial legends on the spot, and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius — still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens...grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls. These cities, thus situated on the grand route of the invaders of Palestine from north or south, have... | |
 | 1803 - 564 pages
...doves — sacred by immemorial legends on the spot, and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius — still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens...grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls." MATT. vi. 9, '* After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy... | |
 | 1865 - 520 pages
...might Ascalon be deemed the haunt of the Syrian Venus. Her temple is destroyed, but the sacred doves still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens...grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls." The most striking and characteristic feature of Philistia is, however, its immense plain, before noticed,... | |
 | Luke H. Wiseman - Bible - 1870 - 394 pages
...famous groves, lent attractiveness and fascination to the vices by which they were defiled ; and doves " still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens...grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls."* " Askelon 'with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof" — Ekron being the most northern,... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 920 pages
..."Eschalot" or "Shallot." a kind of onion, first grown there, and for which this place was widely known. " The sacred doves of Venus still fill with their cooings...which grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls " (Stanley, p. 257). Ashkelon plaved a memorable part in the struggles of the Crusades. '• In it... | |
 | Cook Thomas and son, ltd - 1876 - 550 pages
...Doves — sacred by immemorial legends on the spot, and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius — still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens...grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls. ... In Ascalon was entrenched the hero of the last gleam of history which has thrown its light over... | |
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Her temple is destroyed, but the Sacred Doves — sacred by immemorial legends on the spot, and celebrated there even as late as Eusebius — still fill with their cooings the luxuriant gardens which grow in the sandy hollow within the ruined walls. 
