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... and from the reports and works of Sir William Garstin , K.C.M.G. , Captain H. G. Lyons , R.E. , Lieut . - Colonel Count Gleichen , C.V.O. , D.S.O. , and and other officials in the service of the Egyptian Government .
... and from the reports and works of Sir William Garstin , K.C.M.G. , Captain H. G. Lyons , R.E. , Lieut . - Colonel Count Gleichen , C.V.O. , D.S.O. , and and other officials in the service of the Egyptian Government .
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It would be extremely difficult for the Government to devise an effective remedy for this state of things . The real remedy rests with the travellers themselves . If money were , in future , only bestowed in return for some actual ...
It would be extremely difficult for the Government to devise an effective remedy for this state of things . The real remedy rests with the travellers themselves . If money were , in future , only bestowed in return for some actual ...
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Darius I. ( Hystaspes ) endeavoured to open up the ancient routes of commerce ; he established a coinage , and adopted a conciliatory and tolerant system of government , and favoured all attempts to promote the welfare of Egypt .
Darius I. ( Hystaspes ) endeavoured to open up the ancient routes of commerce ; he established a coinage , and adopted a conciliatory and tolerant system of government , and favoured all attempts to promote the welfare of Egypt .
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Athanasius , Archbishop of Alexandria , was charged with having usurped the imperial power by levying a tax on the Alexandrians , and as this act was construed by Constantine into part of a scheme to overthrow the Government , and as ...
Athanasius , Archbishop of Alexandria , was charged with having usurped the imperial power by levying a tax on the Alexandrians , and as this act was construed by Constantine into part of a scheme to overthrow the Government , and as ...
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Sir Sydney Smith signs a treaty at Al - ' Arish granting General Kléber's army permission to leave Egypt ( February 24 ) , but as he had to admit later that he had exceeded his powers , and that the British Government demanded the ...
Sir Sydney Smith signs a treaty at Al - ' Arish granting General Kléber's army permission to leave Egypt ( February 24 ) , but as he had to admit later that he had exceeded his powers , and that the British Government demanded the ...
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Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. 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 370 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nile-- notes for travellers in Egypt |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Publisher | T. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 |
| Length | 955 pages |
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