Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land, Том 1Harper & brothers, 1843 - Всего страниц: 478 |
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... employed by the pacha , who built them , for manufacturing flour for the army and navy , and other public establishments . From their position they are striking objects . Such a city of windmills is nowhere else to be seen , except at ...
... employed by the pacha , who built them , for manufacturing flour for the army and navy , and other public establishments . From their position they are striking objects . Such a city of windmills is nowhere else to be seen , except at ...
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... employed for the same purpose . The water , however , no longer flows into them through the old aqueducts , which have all been choked with rubbish or de- stroyed . It is brought from the canal on the backs of cam- els , at the season ...
... employed for the same purpose . The water , however , no longer flows into them through the old aqueducts , which have all been choked with rubbish or de- stroyed . It is brought from the canal on the backs of cam- els , at the season ...
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... employed as a dragoman what was the meaning of this outrage . He answered , with an air of great indiffer- ence , in his bad English , " It is an Arab man licking his woman . " I asked him if this was a common practice . He answered ...
... employed as a dragoman what was the meaning of this outrage . He answered , with an air of great indiffer- ence , in his bad English , " It is an Arab man licking his woman . " I asked him if this was a common practice . He answered ...
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... employ- ments to labour for the public . In six weeks the excava- tions were completed , but 20,000 persons , some accounts say 40,000 , had been swept away by diseases produced by incessant labour and exposure in a malignant climate ...
... employ- ments to labour for the public . In six weeks the excava- tions were completed , but 20,000 persons , some accounts say 40,000 , had been swept away by diseases produced by incessant labour and exposure in a malignant climate ...
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... employed in load- ing and unloading the numerous boats . This disagreeable place must rise to some importance , from its position at a point where the immense agricultural products of Egypt are all transhipped in their way to market ...
... employed in load- ing and unloading the numerous boats . This disagreeable place must rise to some importance , from its position at a point where the immense agricultural products of Egypt are all transhipped in their way to market ...
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Alexandria ancient appearance Arabs Assouan bank bazars beautiful Bedouins boat bricks bucksheesh built Cairo camels Christians colours columns commonly considerable Copts court covered crew Desert distance donkeys dragoman edifices Egypt Egyptian employed entablature excavations extend favourable feet in length fellahs Frank front Girgeh granite height hieroglyphics immense interesting inundation labour land less Luxor Lycurgus magnificent Mamelukes masses ments miles minarets Mohammed Mohammedans monuments mosques mountain multitude Mussulmen nearly night Nile Nubian obelisk objects observed occupied ornaments pacha painted palm-trees passage passed perhaps persons piasters pillars plain Pompey's Pillar present propylon Pyramids quarries rais red granite Red Sea rise river rock roof rubbish ruins sail sand scene sculpture seems seen shore side splendid stone streets Syene taste temple Thebes tion tombs town traveller Turkish Upper Egypt usual valley village voyage walls whole wind
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Стр. 341 - And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD.
Стр. 344 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon tha dry ground : and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Стр. 393 - And the glory of the Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days : and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Стр. 414 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb ; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
Стр. 329 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Стр. 343 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Стр. 343 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Стр. 358 - And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees : and they encamped there by the waters.
Стр. 393 - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people : and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Стр. 269 - 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 jots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.