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... River palaces of Old Cairo. — Pyramids of Howara. — Boatmen and dragoman An Arab Sheikh. — Grottoes of El Massara and the Hebrews. — Adventures ashore Benisooef. — Heracleopolis. — Behnesa. — Oxyrinchus. — Gebel el Teir Mythologies and ...
... River palaces of Old Cairo. — Pyramids of Howara. — Boatmen and dragoman An Arab Sheikh. — Grottoes of El Massara and the Hebrews. — Adventures ashore Benisooef. — Heracleopolis. — Behnesa. — Oxyrinchus. — Gebel el Teir Mythologies and ...
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... river. — First sight of temple. — Rubbish. — Ruins. — The temple. — The effect of the front. — Columns. — Countenance of Athor the Egyptian Venus. — The idea of the temple. — The ruined temple. — Grand temple. — Ty- phonium ...
... river. — First sight of temple. — Rubbish. — Ruins. — The temple. — The effect of the front. — Columns. — Countenance of Athor the Egyptian Venus. — The idea of the temple. — The ruined temple. — Grand temple. — Ty- phonium ...
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... river-land, that no other land resembles 1 Who will not be moved in the presence of this people, which of old accomplished such mighty deeds, and now are reduced to misery so extreme ? Who can visit Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids ...
... river-land, that no other land resembles 1 Who will not be moved in the presence of this people, which of old accomplished such mighty deeds, and now are reduced to misery so extreme ? Who can visit Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids ...
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... river Nile ; which, rising in the regions south of ancient Egypt, holds on its course northwardly, and empties its waters into the Mediterranean. To this river Egypt is indebted for its wondrous fertility. Ordinarily the waters of the river ...
... river Nile ; which, rising in the regions south of ancient Egypt, holds on its course northwardly, and empties its waters into the Mediterranean. To this river Egypt is indebted for its wondrous fertility. Ordinarily the waters of the river ...
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... river is once more within its banks. The skill and industry of the inhabitants have for years been employed to increase, by artificial aids, this periodical season of natural irrigation. By canals and embankments, and in former times ...
... river is once more within its banks. The skill and industry of the inhabitants have for years been employed to increase, by artificial aids, this periodical season of natural irrigation. By canals and embankments, and in former times ...
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Page 153 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 199 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 154 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 223 - And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Page 126 - Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen ; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Page 116 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 176 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : Come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 177 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 107 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
Page 211 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.