Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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... mind is overwhelmed with the contemplation of the gigantic ruins which are encountered at every step ; how the spirit seems to soar above the level of its earthly shrine ; and when it de- scends from the sanctuary of gods and heroes ...
... mind is overwhelmed with the contemplation of the gigantic ruins which are encountered at every step ; how the spirit seems to soar above the level of its earthly shrine ; and when it de- scends from the sanctuary of gods and heroes ...
Page 58
... mind , however marked it may have been , is likely to become less ; and his gravity , however great it may hitherto have been , imperceptibly becomes augmented . There are sermons in every stone of the great temple of Carnac ; there are ...
... mind , however marked it may have been , is likely to become less ; and his gravity , however great it may hitherto have been , imperceptibly becomes augmented . There are sermons in every stone of the great temple of Carnac ; there are ...
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... minds without effect . The infancy of art is only associated in their minds with the modern invention of the camera lucida : if you marvel at the immensity of an obelisk , they reduce it to a speck on a sheet of paper ; you wonder at ...
... minds without effect . The infancy of art is only associated in their minds with the modern invention of the camera lucida : if you marvel at the immensity of an obelisk , they reduce it to a speck on a sheet of paper ; you wonder at ...
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... mind of man into submission to priestcraft ; the images , which were only the emblems of the divinity , were converted into gods , and those animals whose peculiar qualities were considered as representations of the divine attributes ...
... mind of man into submission to priestcraft ; the images , which were only the emblems of the divinity , were converted into gods , and those animals whose peculiar qualities were considered as representations of the divine attributes ...
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... mind is , like its own ruin , —indestructible . Magnitude , perhaps , takes a stronger hold of memory than even beauty ; and , in my opinion , the magnificence of Egyptian architecture strikes the senses rather by the magnitude than the ...
... mind is , like its own ruin , —indestructible . Magnitude , perhaps , takes a stronger hold of memory than even beauty ; and , in my opinion , the magnificence of Egyptian architecture strikes the senses rather by the magnitude than the ...
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Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 216 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 311 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Page 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Page 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Page 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Page 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.