The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight's Tour in North-western ArabiaC.K. Paul & Company, 1878 - 395 pagini |
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... passed on . A foreigner will exclaim , " How English ! " when he reads that he kept his secret for twenty - five years , and that when he saw Egypt in distress for gold , the same chivalry which made him disdain it before , made him ask ...
... passed on . A foreigner will exclaim , " How English ! " when he reads that he kept his secret for twenty - five years , and that when he saw Egypt in distress for gold , the same chivalry which made him disdain it before , made him ask ...
Pagina 19
... passing over a heap of ruins which now serve as stone quarries ; and winding through pottery mounds , montes testacei , the Kerámia of the Greeks . Few finds have been made , probably because there has been no regular search ; and what ...
... passing over a heap of ruins which now serve as stone quarries ; and winding through pottery mounds , montes testacei , the Kerámia of the Greeks . Few finds have been made , probably because there has been no regular search ; and what ...
Pagina 20
... passing the abattoirs , where the Pariah dogs are not safe , especially at night and early morning , halts at one of the Palaces which now stud the length and breadth of Lower Egypt . The Court never visits it on account of its being ...
... passing the abattoirs , where the Pariah dogs are not safe , especially at night and early morning , halts at one of the Palaces which now stud the length and breadth of Lower Egypt . The Court never visits it on account of its being ...
Pagina 26
... passing stranger , who casts an incurious look upon the land , and who is apt to compare it with his own type and model of perfection , unduly underrates the amount of develop- Not so we Mediæval Egyptians , who date , we will say ...
... passing stranger , who casts an incurious look upon the land , and who is apt to compare it with his own type and model of perfection , unduly underrates the amount of develop- Not so we Mediæval Egyptians , who date , we will say ...
Pagina 68
... passed . Nothing ' cuter could occur to the Parisian mind ; evidently a high future awaits this very ingenious race . Moreover the " Bámiyah Cotton " has caused a vast development of unfair play . The Copt who first grew the plant gave ...
... passed . Nothing ' cuter could occur to the Parisian mind ; evidently a high future awaits this very ingenious race . Moreover the " Bámiyah Cotton " has caused a vast development of unfair play . The Copt who first grew the plant gave ...
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The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight's Tour ... Sir Richard Francis Burton Vizualizare completă - 1878 |
The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight's Tour ... Sir Richard Francis Burton Vizualizare completă - 1878 |
The Gold-mines of Midian and the Ruined Midianite Cities: A Fortnight's Tour ... Sir Richard Francis Burton Vizualizare completă - 1878 |
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