Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land, Zväzok 1Harper, 1851 |
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Akaba Alexandria ancient Arab Arabian Assouan bank beard beautiful Bedouins boat body bones buried Cairo camels caravan Cataracts chamber Christian convent dark dead Dendera descending desert donkey door dragoman dromedary Edom Egypt Egyptian eyes face feeling foot gate gave Gliddon governor ground half hands head heard hour hundred Idumea interest Irish stew janizary journey labour land land of Goshen Libyan Desert living looked mighty miles miserable monks monuments morning Moses Mount Sinai Mussulmans naked never night Nile Nubian o'clock pacha palm-tree passed Paul Pharaoh pilgrims propylon pyramids Red Sea river rock rope ruins sand scene seemed seen sheik shore side Siout sitting standing stone stood stranger temple tent Thebes thing thirty thousand told tombs traveller tribe Turks Upper Egypt valley village walked walls WARWICK VASE whole wild wind wonder
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Strana 196 - into the wilderness, and found no water ; and when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter." Burckhardt objects that the distance is too short for three days' journey, but this cavil is sufficiently answered by others ; that the movements of such an immense multitude, of all ages and
Strana 164 - the iron rod of a tyrant and a stranger, 1 cannot help recurring to the inspired words, the doom of prophecy : " It shall be the basest of the kingdoms, neither shall it exalt itself any more among the nations ; and
Strana 19 - a view, at each end, of the shipping, either in the Mediterranean or in the Mareotic Lake, and another of equal length intersected it at right angles ; a spacious circus without the Canopie Gate for chariot-races and on the east a splendid gymnasium, more than six hundred feet in length, with
Strana 131 - ference. Next were four beautiful obelisks more than seventy feet high, three of which are still standing ; and then the sanctuary, consisting of an apartment 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
Strana 178 - bleeding feet. I have heard men cry out in agony when the sea was raging, and the drowning man, rising for the last time upon the mountain waves, turned his imploring arms towards us, and with his dying breath called in vain for help ; but I never heard such heartrending sounds as those
Strana 193 - it would be necessary to cross, an undertaking which it would have been physically impossible for six hundred thousand people, men, women, and children, to accomplish, with a hostile army pursuing them. At Suez, Moses could not have been hemmed in as he was; he could
Strana 220 - a place can be selected more fitted for the exhibition of Almighty power. I have stood upon the summit of the giant Etna, and looked over the clouds floating beneath it, upon the bold scenery of Sicily, and the distant mountains of Calabria ; upon the top of Vesuvius, and looked down upon the waves of lava, and the ruined and half-recovered cities
Strana 48 - river of Egypt" rolling at his feet; the long range of pyr amids and tombs extending along the edge of the desert to the ruined city of Memphis, and the boundless and eternal sands of Africa, without considering that moment an epoch not to be forgotten.
Strana 130 - The field of ruins is about a mile in diameter ; the temple itself twelve hundred feet long and four hundred and twenty broad. It has twelve principal entrances, each of which is approached through rows of sphinxes, as across the plain from Luxor, and each is composed of propylons. gateways, and other buildings, in themselves larger
Strana 193 - into the Syrian Desert, or, unless the sea has greatly changed since that time, round the head of the gulf. But here, directly opposite where I sat, was an opening in the mountains, making a clear passage from the desert to the shore