 | 1824 - Počet stránok 604
...crossed the Nile, and proceeded straight to the Memnonium. " As I entered these ruins," observes he, "my first thought was, to examine the colossal bust...found it near the remains of its body and chair, with the face upwards, and apparently smiling on me, at the thought of being taken to England. I must say,... | |
 | 1820 - Počet stránok 612
...Sfc. of Egypt. [Dec. " Ail entered theie ruini, IDJ first thought wan to examine the colossal bull I had to take away. I found it near the remains of its body and chair, with ill face upwards, and apparently •roiling on me, at the thought of being taken to England. I must... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 498
...is much mutilated." Accordingly our traveller found it : he tells us on his arrival at Thebes — " As I entered these ruins, my first thought was to examine the colossal bast I bad to take away. I found it new the remains of its body and chair, will its face upwards, and... | |
 | 1824 - Počet stránok 436
...destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence. As I entered these ruins, my first thought was to...that my expectations were exceeded by its beauty, hut not by its size. " AH the implements we brought from Cairo, consisted of fourteen poles, eight... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1832 - Počet stránok 430
...vast remains of the Memnoniuni, was the colossal head which he was to remove. He found it, he says, near the remains of its body and chair, with its face upwards, and apparently smiling on him at the thought of being taken to England. The implements which he had brought from Cairo were sufficiently... | |
 | 1848 - Počet stránok 718
...traveler in speaking of the removal of the Colossus, says: "As I entered these ruins (the Memnonian,} my first thought was to examine the colossal bust...I found it near the remains of its body and chair, wilh its face upwards, and apparently smiling on me, at the thought of being taken to England." "I... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1859 - Počet stránok 396
...vast remains of the Memnonium, was the colossal head which he was to remove. He found it, he says, near the remains of its body and chair, with its face upwards, and apparently smiling- on him at the thought of being taken to England. The implements which he had brought from Cairo were sufficiently... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 782
...examine the bust, which it was the object of his expedition to remove. " I found it," he observes, " near the remains of its body and chair, with its face...on me, at the thought of being taken to England." Finding the distance to his beat on the Nile too far to go every night, he built a small hut with the... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - Počet stránok 332
...his directions at Cairo. He thus describes his first sight of the treasure, — " As I entered the ruins my first thought was to examine the colossal...smiling on me at the thought of being taken to England." This imaginative trait gives us a clue to the genuine nature of the man, who could thus, in the face... | |
 | 1877 - Počet stránok 814
...examine the bust, which it was the object of his expedition to remove. " I found it," he observes, " near the remains of its body and chair, with its face...on me, at the thought of being taken to England." Finding the distance to his boat on the Nile too far to go every night, he built a small hut with the... | |
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I found it near the remains of its body and chair, with its face upwards, and apparently smiling on me, at the thought of being taken to England. 
