Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, Bind 1–2Harper, 1837 |
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Side 15
... sands , showed that strangers from a once barbarous land were repaying the debt which the world owes to the mother of arts , and raising her from the ruin into which she had been plunged by years of misrule and anarchy . My first visit ...
... sands , showed that strangers from a once barbarous land were repaying the debt which the world owes to the mother of arts , and raising her from the ruin into which she had been plunged by years of misrule and anarchy . My first visit ...
Side 17
... sand , running from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Lake Mareotis , the boundaries of Alexandria as it was of old . All this intermediate space of sandy hills , alter- nating with hollows , was once covered with houses , palaces ...
... sand , running from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Lake Mareotis , the boundaries of Alexandria as it was of old . All this intermediate space of sandy hills , alter- nating with hollows , was once covered with houses , palaces ...
Side 18
... sand , lies a fallen brother , of the same size and about the same age , said to have been taken down by the English many years ago , for the purpose of being carried to England ; but the pacha prevented it , and since that time it has ...
... sand , lies a fallen brother , of the same size and about the same age , said to have been taken down by the English many years ago , for the purpose of being carried to England ; but the pacha prevented it , and since that time it has ...
Side 20
... sand ; but having by this time lost much of my ardour for wandering among tombs , and finding the pursuit ... sands of the desert may again creep upon them , and shut them for ever from our eyes . Near the door of the entrance , directly ...
... sand ; but having by this time lost much of my ardour for wandering among tombs , and finding the pursuit ... sands of the desert may again creep upon them , and shut them for ever from our eyes . Near the door of the entrance , directly ...
Side 33
... sand - bank . Near this we passed a long line of excavation where several hundred men were then digging , being part of the gigantic work of draining the Delta , lately under- ug taken by the pacha . Towards the evening of the fourth ...
... sand - bank . Near this we passed a long line of excavation where several hundred men were then digging , being part of the gigantic work of draining the Delta , lately under- ug taken by the pacha . Towards the evening of the fourth ...
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Akaba ancient Arabian Arabs Assouan bank beautiful Bedouins boat buried Cairo camels caravan Cataracts chamber Christian companions convent cross dark Dead Sea desert desolate door dromedary Edom Egypt Egyptian Engravings eyes face feeling feet foot gate gave governor grave ground half hand head Hebron Holy Land horse hour Idumea interest janizary Jerusalem Jews journey living looked miserable monks morning moun Mount Mount Hor mountains Mussulman naked never night Nile Nubian o'clock pacha palm-trees passed Paul Petra pilgrims Portrait propylon pyramids Red Sea returned river rock ruins sand scene seemed seen sheik shore side Sinai Siout sitting spot standing stone stood stranger sword tain temple tent Thebes thing tion told tomb of Samuel tombs Toualeb traveller tribe Turk Turkish turned Upper Egypt valley village vols walked walls whole wild wind
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Side 140 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates and of the figs.
Side 70 - They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, And all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, Nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: And it shall be an habitation of dragons, And a court for owls.
Side 88 - Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God...
Side 250 - And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
Side 310 - Sallust's Jugurthine War and Conspiracy of Catiline, with an English Commentary, and Geographical and Historical Indexes. By Charles Anthon, LL.D. Sixth Edition, corrected and enlarged. 12mo. With a Portrait. Select Orations of Cicero, with an English Commentary, and Historical, Geographical, and Legal Indexes.
Side 38 - It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Side 307 - The History of Modern Europe : with a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763.
Side 88 - Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity...
Side 167 - 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.
Side 89 - And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son ; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount. And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.