Lands of the Moslem: A Narrative of Oriental TravelCarter and brothers, 1851 - 378 страница |
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... river . In true Eastern style , therefore , some 300,000 men , women , and children were driven to the scene of operations , and whipped to the work of digging out a canal of forty miles in length , seven and a half feet in CANAL ...
... river . In true Eastern style , therefore , some 300,000 men , women , and children were driven to the scene of operations , and whipped to the work of digging out a canal of forty miles in length , seven and a half feet in CANAL ...
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... river ; but , not being in condition for rhapsodies , regarded it with no more astonished gaze than if it had been the Croton or the Spuytenduyvil . The truth is , ten hours in our cramped quarters on the canal - boat had rendered us ...
... river ; but , not being in condition for rhapsodies , regarded it with no more astonished gaze than if it had been the Croton or the Spuytenduyvil . The truth is , ten hours in our cramped quarters on the canal - boat had rendered us ...
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... river of the Pharaohs . Refreshed by sleep , we rose from our beds ( 1 should say , tables ) , ready to feel all the inspiration that the Nile could impart . We were opposite the mounds of Sais , once capital of Lower Egypt . An ...
... river of the Pharaohs . Refreshed by sleep , we rose from our beds ( 1 should say , tables ) , ready to feel all the inspiration that the Nile could impart . We were opposite the mounds of Sais , once capital of Lower Egypt . An ...
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... river altered the direction of our progress . At two P. M. we halted among a crowd of small craft at Bou- lac , the port of Cairo . This town contains 5,000 inhabitants , and is a slight improvement upon the vil- lages we had passed on ...
... river altered the direction of our progress . At two P. M. we halted among a crowd of small craft at Bou- lac , the port of Cairo . This town contains 5,000 inhabitants , and is a slight improvement upon the vil- lages we had passed on ...
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... river flows beyond , and still farther stand the Pyramids - the voices of the olden time . Behind are the Mukattem rocky hills and mountains , beyond whose desolate barrier is the way to the howling wilderness , whose plains and valleys ...
... river flows beyond , and still farther stand the Pyramids - the voices of the olden time . Behind are the Mukattem rocky hills and mountains , beyond whose desolate barrier is the way to the howling wilderness , whose plains and valleys ...
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Akabah Akka Alawin ancient appearance Arabs arch ascended backsheesh Balbek bank beautiful Bedawee Bedawin Beirut Beni Hassan Besharah boat building built Cairo camels Christian church cliffs Coele-Syria columns Consul convent crew dahabiyeh desert distance donkeys edifice Edom Egypt Egyptian Elath encampment entered erected feet Feiran gardens green groves half Hebron height Heliopolis hills Hossein houses Ibrahim Israel Jebel Jenin Jerusalem Khan land Lebanon looked miles Mohammed monks morning Moslem mosque mounds Mount Mount Hor mountains Mousa night Nile ornamented Pacha palm passed Petra piastres plain probably pyramid quarantine Ramses II ravine reached Red Sea river rock roof route ruins sand Saracen scene seen Sheikh shore side Sidon sight Sinai spot stone Strabo Suez summit supposed Syria Syrian temple tents Thebes Tiberias tomb Towarah town travellers trees valley village Wady walls wind
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Страница 265 - Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Страница 264 - The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. The crown is fallen from our head : woe unto us, that we have sinned...
Страница 78 - Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers. Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets : and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Страница 292 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well whose branches run over the wall. The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...