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Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land John Lloyd STEPHENS Úplné zobrazenie - 1848 |
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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 desert donkey door dragoman dromedary Edom Egypt Egyptian eyes face feeling feet foot gate gave governor ground half hands head 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 returned 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 168 - 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 there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt." CHAPTER XIII. A good Word for the Arabs.—A Prophecy fulfilled.—Ruins of a Lost City. —A Sheik of the Bedouins.—Interviews and Negotiations.—A
Strana 139 - The kings of the nations did lie in glory, every one in his own house, but thou -art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch.
Strana 42 - a race of princes whose wanton cruelty often stained their divan, their table, and their bed with the blood of their favourites, there is a saying recorded of a young nobleman, that he never departed from the sultan's presence without satisfying- himself whether his head was still on his shoulders." It was in somewhat of the same spirit that, in
Strana 134 - without feeling humbled by the greatness of a people who have passed away for ever. The western entrance, facing the temple of Northern Dair on the opposite side of the river, also approached between two rows of sphinxes, is a magnificent propylon four "hundred feet long and
Strana 81 - Small favours thankfully received.—Slavery in Egypt.—How to catch a Crocodile.—An elaborate Joke.—Imaginary Perils.—Arabs not so bad as they might be. THE next day, at about four o'clock, we arrived at Djiddeh, formerly the capital of Upper Egypt, and the largest town on the Nile.
Strana 180 - of the culprit like bolts of thunder ; the agony of suspense was over, and, without a word or look, he laid himself down on his face at the feet of the governor. A space was immediately cleared around ; a man on each
Strana 196 - army of Pharaoh in his rear; it was there he had stretched out his hand and divided the waters ; and probably, on the very spot where I sat, the children of Israel had kneeled upon the sands to
Strana 53 - still, common as the journey has become, no man can stand on the top of the great pyramid of Cheops, and look out upon the dark mountains of Mokattam bordering the Arabian desert; upon the ancient cities of the Pharaohs, its domes, its mosques and minarets, glittering in the light of a vertical sun ; upon the rich valley of the Nile, and the
Strana 3 - life, and energy, and daily-developing strength and resources of the New, a picture of the widely-different scenes that are now passing in the faded and worn-out kingdoms of the Old World. For the plates on Mount Sinai and Petra he is indebted to the work of Mr. Laborde.
Strana 86 - looked civil and harmless compared with a Bedouin of the desert. The swarthy complexion of the latter, his long beard, his piercing coalblack eyes, half-naked figure, an enormous sword slung over his back, and a rusty matchlock in his hand, make the best figure for a painter I ever saw; but, happily, he is not so bad as he looks to be.