Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia: And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea in Search of the Ancient Berenice, and of Another to the Oasis of Jupiter AmmonJohn Murray, 1820 - 483 pages |
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... means I took in making my researches , the difficulties I had to encounter , and how I overcame them , will give a tolerably correct idea of the manners and customs of the people I had to deal with . Perhaps I have spoken too much of.
... means I took in making my researches , the difficulties I had to encounter , and how I overcame them , will give a tolerably correct idea of the manners and customs of the people I had to deal with . Perhaps I have spoken too much of.
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... means I had an opportunity of observing the domestic life of a man , who from nothing rose to be viceroy of Egypt , and conqueror of the most powerful tribes of Arabia . From the number of lights I frequently saw through the windows of ...
... means I had an opportunity of observing the domestic life of a man , who from nothing rose to be viceroy of Egypt , and conqueror of the most powerful tribes of Arabia . From the number of lights I frequently saw through the windows of ...
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... means are inadequate , or that the difficulties of the undertaking , from the nature of the ground , or other causes , are likely to prove insurmountable , he will , at once , relinquish the enterprise , and not enter into farther ...
... means are inadequate , or that the difficulties of the undertaking , from the nature of the ground , or other causes , are likely to prove insurmountable , he will , at once , relinquish the enterprise , and not enter into farther ...
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... means of my interpreter , and a few words of my own . I provided myself with a Greek carpenter , who agreed to follow us to Thebes ; and on the sixth day the Bey arrived . He received me very politely . I presented the letter to him ...
... means of my interpreter , and a few words of my own . I provided myself with a Greek carpenter , who agreed to follow us to Thebes ; and on the sixth day the Bey arrived . He received me very politely . I presented the letter to him ...
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... young Memnon . He received me with that invariable politeness which is peculiar to the Turks , even when they do not mean in the slightest degree to comply with your wishes , and which often deceives 40 RESEARCHES AND OPERATIONS.
... young Memnon . He received me with that invariable politeness which is peculiar to the Turks , even when they do not mean in the slightest degree to comply with your wishes , and which often deceives 40 RESEARCHES AND OPERATIONS.
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Page 529 - Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. 2. Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. 3. And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Page 156 - ... long, you generally find a more commodious place, perhaps high enough to sit. But what a place of rest! surrounded by bodies, by heaps of mummies in all directions; which, previous to my being accustomed to the sight, impressed me with horror. The blackness of the wall, the faint light given by the candles or torches for want of air, the different objects that surrounded me, seeming to converse with each other, and the Arabs with the candles or torches in their hands, naked and covered with dust,...
Page 529 - And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, "Have me away; for I am sore wounded.
Page 529 - But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war; for God commanded me to make haste : forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
Page 157 - I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again. I could not remove from the place, however, without increasing it, and every step I took I crushed a mummy in some part or other.
Page 213 - The outside of this temple is magnificent. It is a hundred and seventeen feet wide, and eighty-six feet high ; the height from the top of the cornice to the top of the door being sixty-six feet six inches, and the height of the door twenty feet. There are four enormous sitting colossi, the largest in Egypt or Nubia, except the great Sphinx at the pyramids, to which they approach in the proportion of near two-thirds.
Page 299 - It so happened that we were to witness one of the greatest calamities that have occurred in Egypt in the recollection of any one living. The Nile rose this season three feet and a half above the highest mark left by the former inundation , with uncommon rapidity, and carried off several villages and some hundreds of their inhabitants.
Page 37 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Page 235 - The pillars are three feet four inches square, and the whole beautifully painted as the rest. At the same end of the room, and facing the ' Hall of Pillars ' we entered by a large door into another chamber with four pillars, one of which is fallen down. This chamber is fortythree feet four inches by seventeen feet six inches; the pillars three feet seven inches square.
Page 529 - And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.