Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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... took me one and twenty days to accomplish , I had some opportunity of getting information on a few points connected with the Natural History of Egypt . This information has no pretensions to arrangement or erudition ; but simply ...
... took me one and twenty days to accomplish , I had some opportunity of getting information on a few points connected with the Natural History of Egypt . This information has no pretensions to arrangement or erudition ; but simply ...
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... took me to see one of his wives , who was dying of dropsy . He had a large harem , and while I was examining the patient , the young ladies , who had probably never seen a Frank before , at least , in their apartments , whispered with ...
... took me to see one of his wives , who was dying of dropsy . He had a large harem , and while I was examining the patient , the young ladies , who had probably never seen a Frank before , at least , in their apartments , whispered with ...
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... took them away to try the effects of the sun , but from that period she declined daily in viva- city , and soon after died . The lizard called gecko , is a small poisonous reptile , which the people of Thebes dread very much ; its ...
... took them away to try the effects of the sun , but from that period she declined daily in viva- city , and soon after died . The lizard called gecko , is a small poisonous reptile , which the people of Thebes dread very much ; its ...
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... took money from travellers , who , when they go beyond his district , may want their money , for they can get no bread without it * . " I hardly knew which to admire most , the generosity or the delicacy of this man . * A few weeks ...
... took money from travellers , who , when they go beyond his district , may want their money , for they can get no bread without it * . " I hardly knew which to admire most , the generosity or the delicacy of this man . * A few weeks ...
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... took deliberate aim at me , with his pistol , at a very fair distance , not exceeding twenty paces , and yet he missed me , the ball passed through the sail of our boat . The only reason for this shot , was my refusing to take the ...
... took deliberate aim at me , with his pistol , at a very fair distance , not exceeding twenty paces , and yet he missed me , the ball passed through the sail of our boat . The only reason for this shot , was my refusing to take 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.