Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 41
... shrine , and further must lave themselves at the fountain in the midst of the open court . Once , I suppose , the Christian dogs had to unshoe themselves as well , but it has been discovered that Occidental curiosity is fully equal to ...
... shrine , and further must lave themselves at the fountain in the midst of the open court . Once , I suppose , the Christian dogs had to unshoe themselves as well , but it has been discovered that Occidental curiosity is fully equal to ...
Page 57
... shrine . But still the other three tended to grow some- what larger than at first , until at last there came to be four well - defined transepts , forming with the central quadrangle a huge cross ; and in each of the arcades the priests ...
... shrine . But still the other three tended to grow some- what larger than at first , until at last there came to be four well - defined transepts , forming with the central quadrangle a huge cross ; and in each of the arcades the priests ...
Page 59
... shrines , untenanted pulpits , win- dows of wonderful arabesque tracery , walls adorned with gilded texts , but only in a rare instance will it be found that any such edifice stands out sharp and clear from the mass . For the most part ...
... shrines , untenanted pulpits , win- dows of wonderful arabesque tracery , walls adorned with gilded texts , but only in a rare instance will it be found that any such edifice stands out sharp and clear from the mass . For the most part ...
Page 87
... shrine of St. Sergius , where the ancient worship still goes on as we may believe it did in the time of the blessed St. Mark , in a language which neither priest nor penitent pretends longer to understand . I may have remarked elsewhere ...
... shrine of St. Sergius , where the ancient worship still goes on as we may believe it did in the time of the blessed St. Mark , in a language which neither priest nor penitent pretends longer to understand . I may have remarked elsewhere ...
Page 93
Philip Sanford Marden. said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb and shrine as a preparation of the visitor to understand them . By far the larger portion of the surviving relics of the remoter ages is made up of the ...
Philip Sanford Marden. said of these things relates almost equally to both tomb and shrine as a preparation of the visitor to understand them . By far the larger portion of the surviving relics of the remoter ages is made up of the ...
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Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemaic pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship