Letters on Egypt, Edom, and the Holy Land, Band 1H. Colburn, 1838 - 780 Seiten |
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... winds , and used my eyes , stared into every nook and corner , and at every one , man and woman , we met . But you cannot have forgotten the scene , though long familiarity with its details may have effaced the remembrance of your first ...
... winds , and used my eyes , stared into every nook and corner , and at every one , man and woman , we met . But you cannot have forgotten the scene , though long familiarity with its details may have effaced the remembrance of your first ...
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... wind having been contrary during the first two or three of the voyage ; we sailed on the Mahmoudieh canal to Atfi , in the course of a night , and there embarked on the Nile in one of the cangias , or boats of the country , which hold ...
... wind having been contrary during the first two or three of the voyage ; we sailed on the Mahmoudieh canal to Atfi , in the course of a night , and there embarked on the Nile in one of the cangias , or boats of the country , which hold ...
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... a passage , forced , it is supposed , by the Caliph Mamoun , you wind round these blocks of granite into the passage , so that , with the exception of ten or twelve feet , you do in fact follow the original line E 2 CHEOPS . 75.
... a passage , forced , it is supposed , by the Caliph Mamoun , you wind round these blocks of granite into the passage , so that , with the exception of ten or twelve feet , you do in fact follow the original line E 2 CHEOPS . 75.
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... winds have nearly covered her again - her back , I should rather say , for she always held her head above water . Her attitude bespeaks the calm repose of conscious strength , her expression of counte- nance , benevolence - the tout ...
... winds have nearly covered her again - her back , I should rather say , for she always held her head above water . Her attitude bespeaks the calm repose of conscious strength , her expression of counte- nance , benevolence - the tout ...
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... wind on Mount Palatine as on the hills of Meroe , and the towers of Palibothra ( what a pyramid of empire ! ) , is now a reproach , a curse , and a hissing , to the wretches on whose outcast heads that crown of glory has descended ...
... wind on Mount Palatine as on the hills of Meroe , and the towers of Palibothra ( what a pyramid of empire ! ) , is now a reproach , a curse , and a hissing , to the wretches on whose outcast heads that crown of glory has descended ...
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Abd'allatif afterwards ancient appearance Arab ascended autres avoit beautiful Bedouins boat breeze Cairo called camels Caphtor Carnac cataracts Caviglia chamber Cherethim colonnes columns Copts date-trees dear delightful descended desert deux Ebn Khasib Edom Egypt Egyptian Essouan excavated fait feet garden Gebel Mousa Gebel Serbal gens du pays grand granite Greek hall hand Herodotus hieroglyphics hills hour Hussein interesting Israelites Kiashef king l'on land Leo Africanus lofty look Lord lovely Luxor Mataria Missirie morning Moses Mount Sinai mountains night Nile noble NOTE Nubian obelisks Osiris palace Pasha passage Pharaoh Philae pierre pillars Pyramids qu'il Rameses Ramsay's Journal river rock round ruins sand says scene sculptured seen Sesostris side Siout sphinx statues stone strange temple Thebes thing thou tombs tout towering travellers tree Upper Egypt valley visited voit Voyages Wady Wady Halfa walk walls wind
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Seite 85 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Seite 393 - And it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Seite 168 - So I went in and saw ; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Seite 381 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Seite 241 - And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians...
Seite 178 - Linquenda tellus et domus et placens Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum Te praeter invisas cupressos Ulla brevem dominum sequetur.
Seite 172 - They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners ? All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
Seite 357 - And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
Seite 265 - And the Power on high, that can shield the good Thus from the tyrant of the wood, Hath extended its- mercy to guard me as well From the hands of the leaguering infidel.
Seite 133 - Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt : and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.