Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land, Volumele 1-2Harper, 1837 |
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Pagina 21
... soon grew into a giant city . Fifteen miles in circumference , containing a population of 300,000 citizens and as many slaves , one magnificent street 2000 feet broad ran the whole length of the city , from the Gate of the Sea to the ...
... soon grew into a giant city . Fifteen miles in circumference , containing a population of 300,000 citizens and as many slaves , one magnificent street 2000 feet broad ran the whole length of the city , from the Gate of the Sea to the ...
Pagina 28
... soon busied my- self with meditating upon this extraordinary opera- tion of nature , thus presenting itself to my obser- vation at the very moment of my entrance into this wonderful country . It was a beautiful ordi- nance of Providence ...
... soon busied my- self with meditating upon this extraordinary opera- tion of nature , thus presenting itself to my obser- vation at the very moment of my entrance into this wonderful country . It was a beautiful ordi- nance of Providence ...
Pagina 31
... soon suggested the interesting consideration whether all this came from country and climate , from the char- acter of the people , or from the government of the great reformer . At one place I saw on the banks of the river forty or ...
... soon suggested the interesting consideration whether all this came from country and climate , from the char- acter of the people , or from the government of the great reformer . At one place I saw on the banks of the river forty or ...
Pagina 37
... Soon after I received a note from the consul , telling me that his highness would receive me at half past three . This , too , was the hour appointed for the reception of the others , and I saw that his highness was dis- posed to make a ...
... Soon after I received a note from the consul , telling me that his highness would receive me at half past three . This , too , was the hour appointed for the reception of the others , and I saw that his highness was dis- posed to make a ...
Pagina 39
... soon have to welcome half the world there ; he asked me why ; and without meaning to flatter the old Turk , I answered that everybody had a great curiosity to visit that interesting country ; that heretofore it had been very difficult ...
... soon have to welcome half the world there ; he asked me why ; and without meaning to flatter the old Turk , I answered that everybody had a great curiosity to visit that interesting country ; that heretofore it had been very difficult ...
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.