Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, Volumele 1-2Harper, 1837 |
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Pagina 15
... 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 was to Mr. Gliddon , the American ...
... 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 was to Mr. Gliddon , the American ...
Pagina 17
... once covered with houses , palaces , and perhaps with monuments , equal in beauty to that at whose base I stood . Riding over that waste , the stranger sees broken columns , crumbling walls , and fragments of granite and marble ...
... once covered with houses , palaces , and perhaps with monuments , equal in beauty to that at whose base I stood . Riding over that waste , the stranger sees broken columns , crumbling walls , and fragments of granite and marble ...
Pagina 22
... once more to be raising its head from the dust . It remains to be seen whether this rise is the legitimate and permanent effect of a wise and politic government , combined with natural ad- vantages , or whether the pacha is not forcing ...
... once more to be raising its head from the dust . It remains to be seen whether this rise is the legitimate and permanent effect of a wise and politic government , combined with natural ad- vantages , or whether the pacha is not forcing ...
Pagina 25
... once , and in a year from its commencement the whole excavation was made . As a great step in the march of public im- provement it certainly does honour to the pacha , though , in passing along its banks , our admira- tion of a ...
... once , and in a year from its commencement the whole excavation was made . As a great step in the march of public im- provement it certainly does honour to the pacha , though , in passing along its banks , our admira- tion of a ...
Pagina 30
... once he gave his neck a sudden toss , jerked his head from under me , and left me standing up to my middle in the stream . I turned round upon him , hardly know- ing whether to laugh or to strike him with the butt end of my gun ; but ...
... once he gave his neck a sudden toss , jerked his head from under me , and left me standing up to my middle in the stream . I turned round upon him , hardly know- ing whether to laugh or to strike him with the butt end of my gun ; but ...
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.