The Golden Horn: And Sketches in Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the Hauraan, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1851 - 652 pages |
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... soon as it was finished ; while others imagine that bridges were made of mud bricks , which , when the work was completed , were used to build private houses . These stories are evidently given by Pliny , not because he believed them to ...
... soon as it was finished ; while others imagine that bridges were made of mud bricks , which , when the work was completed , were used to build private houses . These stories are evidently given by Pliny , not because he believed them to ...
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... soon passed to the new Arab city of Fostát , and the capital of Lower Egypt in a few years ceased to exist . The blocks of stone of its ruined monuments were taken to build modern edifices ; and we find Pococke , a hundred years ago ...
... soon passed to the new Arab city of Fostát , and the capital of Lower Egypt in a few years ceased to exist . The blocks of stone of its ruined monuments were taken to build modern edifices ; and we find Pococke , a hundred years ago ...
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... - specting the wonders of Egypt that lay before us , though fortunately our expectations were not doomed to be disappointed . Soon after sunrise , on the 4th of January , the 22 THE SPHINX . boatman , whom we had despatched.
... - specting the wonders of Egypt that lay before us , though fortunately our expectations were not doomed to be disappointed . Soon after sunrise , on the 4th of January , the 22 THE SPHINX . boatman , whom we had despatched.
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... soon as they were ferried across , we started for the Great Pyramids of Geezeh . A ride of an hour and three quarters brought us to the celebrated Sphinx , which has been so often described by travellers that I shall only remark that ...
... soon as they were ferried across , we started for the Great Pyramids of Geezeh . A ride of an hour and three quarters brought us to the celebrated Sphinx , which has been so often described by travellers that I shall only remark that ...
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... soon after my arrival in Cairo , a thickset middle - aged Egyptian brought a parcel to my room which had been left for me at the hotel ; his open smiling countenance and straightforward address attracted my notice . " Signore , lei ha ...
... soon after my arrival in Cairo , a thickset middle - aged Egyptian brought a parcel to my room which had been left for me at the hotel ; his open smiling countenance and straightforward address attracted my notice . " Signore , lei ha ...
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Page 167 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 73 - 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.
Page 60 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared ; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 231 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Page 231 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Page 170 - Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.
Page 61 - So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
Page 61 - And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
Page 220 - Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle...
Page 149 - Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.