 Abbey are believed to have flourished there 1,200 years ago; the Olives in the garden of Gethsemane were full grown when the Saracens were expelled from Jerusalem ; and the Cypress of Soma, in Lombardy, is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius...  The Lost Cities of Ceylon - Page 58by Geraldine Edith Mitton - 1917 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anne Tuttle Jones Bullard - Europe - 1852 - 282 pages
...festooned between the trees, and grow very luxuriantly. We passed a remarkable cypress tree, of great age, said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Caesar. It is one hundred and twenty- one feet high and twenty-three feet in circumference. Napoleon, in constructing... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 700 pages
...hundred years ago ; the olives in the Garden of Gethsemane were full grown when the Saracens Avere expelled from Jerusalem ; and the cypress of Soma,...the Bo-tree is older than the oldest of these by a centuiy, and would almost seem to verify the prophecy pronounced when it was planted, that it would... | |
 | sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 702 pages
...flourished there twelve hundred years ago ; the olives in the Garden of Gethsemane were full grown when the Saracens were expelled from Jerusalem ; and...is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Cassar ; yet, the Bo-tree is older than the oldest of these by a centuiy, and would almost seem to... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1862 - 582 pages
...flourished there twelve hundred years ago ; the olives in the Garden of Gethsemane were full grown when the Saracens were expelled from Jerusalem ; and...is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Cresar ; yet the Bo-tree is older than the oldest of these by centuries, and would almost seem to verify... | |
 | E. A. R. - 1862 - 376 pages
...have flourished there twelve hundred years ago. The Olives in the garden of Gethsemane were full grown when the Saracens were expelled from Jerusalem : and...is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Csesar. Yet the Bo-tree is older than the oldest of these by a century, and would almost seem to verify... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Antarctica - 1872 - 812 pages
...Gethsemane were full-grown when the Saracens were expelled from Jerusalem, and the cypress of Somma in Lombardy is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Caesar. Yet the Bo-tree is older thau the oldest of these by a century, and would almost seem to verify the prophecy pronounced when... | |
 | Joseph Gerson Cunha - Buddhas - 1875 - 110 pages
...numbers half its years ; the Yew-trees of Fountains Abbey are believed to be twelve hundred years old ; the Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane were full-grown...tree in the time of Julius Caesar; yet the .Bo-tree at Anuradhapura is older than the in the year 1560 AD the Buddhist world was startled by hearing that... | |
 | Asiatic Society of Bombay - Asia - 1876 - 470 pages
...numbers half its years ; the Yew-trees of Fountains Abbey are believed to be twelve hundred years old ; the Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane were full-grown...is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Cffisar ; yet the .Bo-tree at Anuradhapnra is older than the in the year 1560 AD the Buddhist world... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - Buddha (The concept). - 1887 - 270 pages
...Gethsemane were full grown when the Saracens were expelled from Jerusalem ; and the Cypress of Soraa, in Lombardy, is said to have been a tree in the time of Julius Caesar : yet the Bo Tree is older than the oldest of these by a century ; and would almost seem to verify the prophecy... | |
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