The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon
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Chapters (471)
- THE THISTLE and THE CEDAR OF LEBANON,
- PREFACE to the first edition.
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
- CHAPTER I. SCENES OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
- CHAPTER II. PIRATICAL ATTACK ON BEYROUT.
- CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF DAMASCUS.
- THE STORY OF THE JINN AND THE SCOLDING WIFE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARIES AT BEYROUT.
- CHAPTER V. EXCURSION TO CYPRUS.
- CHAPTER VI. ALEPPO.
- CHAPTER VII. ANTIOCH AND LATTAKIA.
- CHAPTER VIII. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER IX. VISIT TO PARIS.
- CHAPTER X. STAY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
- CHAPTER XI. EGYPT.
- CHAPTER XII. VISITS TO LADY ROLLE AND TO BATH AND CHELTENHAM.
- VISIT TO CHELTENHAM.
- CHAPTER XIII. IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND.
- CHAPTER XIV. LIFE, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS OF SYRIA.
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- CHAPTER XV. SYRIA AND HER INHABITANTS.
- CHAPTER XVI. SYRIA, HER INHABITANTS, AND THEIR RELIGIONS, CONTINUED.
- CHAPTER XVII. CHRISTIAN INHABITANTS.
- CHAPTER XVIII. THE POPULATION OF SYRIA, CONTINUED.—THE PAGAN INHABITANTS.
- CHAPTER XIX. APPEARANCE AND COSTUMES OF THE PEOPLE.
- CHAPTER XX. THE OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE.
- CHAPTER XXI. THE COMPARATIVE INFLUENCES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT FAITHS IN SYRIA.
- CHAPTER XXII. THE REMEDY.
- APPENDIX. NOTES ON THE GEOLOGY OF SYRIA,
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