The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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Page ix
... Government . The works of Sir F. R. Wingate , K.C.B. , etc. , Sir Rudolf von Slatin Pâshâ , K.C.B. , Father Ohrwalder , and Mr. Charles Royle have supplied many facts concerning Mahdiism and the reconquest of the Sûdân , and from Edward ...
... Government . The works of Sir F. R. Wingate , K.C.B. , etc. , Sir Rudolf von Slatin Pâshâ , K.C.B. , Father Ohrwalder , and Mr. Charles Royle have supplied many facts concerning Mahdiism and the reconquest of the Sûdân , and from Edward ...
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... 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 service rendered , or in cases of evident and ...
... 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 service rendered , or in cases of evident and ...
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... government , and favoured all attempts to promote the welfare of Egypt . He completed the digging of the canal to join the Nile with the Red Sea , which had been begun by Necho . built a temple at Hebt , in the Oasis of Khârgah . 486 ...
... government , and favoured all attempts to promote the welfare of Egypt . He completed the digging of the canal to join the Nile with the Red Sea , which had been begun by Necho . built a temple at Hebt , in the Oasis of Khârgah . 486 ...
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... Government , and as the Alexandrians themselves sided with Licinius , Constantine's rival , the Emperor founded the city of Byzantium , or Constantinople . 337. Constantius . George of Cappadocia , an Arian , is made Bishop of ...
... Government , and as the Alexandrians themselves sided with Licinius , Constantine's rival , the Emperor founded the city of Byzantium , or Constantinople . 337. Constantius . George of Cappadocia , an Arian , is made Bishop of ...
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... Government and taken to Baghdâd , where he was executed in May , 906 . IV . THE FAȚIMID KHALIFAS . 909. Al - Mahdi . He died in 934 . 910. Tekin al - Khâssa . 914. Khubâsa , the Fâțimid General , captured Alexandria . 915. Dhukâ ar ...
... Government and taken to Baghdâd , where he was executed in May , 906 . IV . THE FAȚIMID KHALIFAS . 909. Al - Mahdi . He died in 934 . 910. Tekin al - Khâssa . 914. Khubâsa , the Fâțimid General , captured Alexandria . 915. Dhukâ ar ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abû Abydos Alexandria Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Atbara Barrage Blue Nile body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber chapel Christians church columns Coptic Copts corvée Dêr Dervishes desert east excavations famous feet Gebel Barkal gods Government granite Greek Ḥalfa Hathor hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khalifa Khartûm king Lake land large number Luxor Mariette Memphis Meroë metres miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum natives Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ period Philæ pillars priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid railway Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins sarcophagus Sawâkin scenes Seti shrine side statue stele stone Sûdân Suez suten temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî walls west bank White Nile worship XIIth XVIIIth dynasty
Popular passages
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.