The Hills of the ShatemucJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1876 - Всего страниц: 516 |
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Alexandria ancient Egyptians Arab ashore Assouan bank bath beautiful Belzoni boat burying-ground Cairo canal Cataracts chamber Christian cloth extra Colored columns crocodile dark dead Dendera distance donkey door dragoman dromedaries English excavated eyes feeling feet high feet long Frontispiece gate Girgeh granite hands head Heliopolis hundred Ibrahim Pasha Illuminated Title-page Illustrations interest Irish stew island journey Karnac Lake land Libyan desert looked Luxor magnificent Mamelukes MARCUS WARD mighty miles miserable monuments morning mountains mounted naked night Nile Nilometer Nubian o'clock Oasis obelisks Osiris palace palm-trees Pasha passed Paul Pharaoh Pompey's Pillar priest propylon pyramids rais Red Sea returned river ruins sails sand scene sculpture seemed seen sheik shore side Siout sphinxes standing stone stood Suez Suez Canal temple Thebes things thousand told tombs town traveller Turks Upper Egypt village voyage walk walls wind
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Стр. 200 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Стр. 239 - Noph ; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt. It shall be the basest of the nations, neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations : for I will diminish them, that they shall no 'more rule over the nations.
Стр. 239 - ... dominant, and sitteth upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes, while his sister Oblivion reclineth semisomnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he paceth amazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.
Стр. 201 - 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.
Стр. 192 - ... twenty feet square, the walls and ceiling of large blocks of highly-polished granite, the ceiling studded with stars on a blue ground, and the walls covered with sculpture and hieroglyphics representing offerings to Osiris, illustrating the mysterious uses of this sacred chamber, and showing the degrading character of the Egyptian worship. Beyond this is another colonnade, and again porticoes and walls to another propylon, at a distance of two thousand feet from the western extremity of the temple.
Стр. 259 - 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 the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand and on their left.
Стр. 98 - ... feet. The back chambers were so dark, and their atmosphere was so unwholesome, that it was unpleasant, and perhaps unsafe, to explore them ; if we went in far, there was always a loud rushing noise, and, as Paul suggested, their innermost recesses might now be the abode of wild beasts. Wishing to see what caused the noise, and at the same time to keep out of harm's way, we stationed ourselves near the back door of the entrance-chamber, and I fired my gun within ; a stream of fire lighted up the...
Стр. 22 - It appears 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 advantages, or whether the pacha is not forcing it to an unnatural elevation, at the expense, if not upon the ruins, of the rest of Egypt. It is almost presumptuous, on the threshold of my entrance into Egypt, to speculate upon the future condition of this interesting country ; but it is clear that the pacha...