A New Sea and an Old Land: Being Papers Suggested by a Visit to Egypt at the End of 1869 |
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... English commercial bodies , it is true , highly approved of the scheme when it was propounded to them . They were taken captive , partly by the splendour of the conception , partly by the prospect of expansion which opened to their own ...
... English commercial bodies , it is true , highly approved of the scheme when it was propounded to them . They were taken captive , partly by the splendour of the conception , partly by the prospect of expansion which opened to their own ...
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... English journals , which , after deciding that the Canal could not be made , were especially careful to affix to it the brand of commercial infamy by showing that it would not pay . M. de Lesseps procured a concession from the Viceroy ...
... English journals , which , after deciding that the Canal could not be made , were especially careful to affix to it the brand of commercial infamy by showing that it would not pay . M. de Lesseps procured a concession from the Viceroy ...
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... English apprehension it might in the twilight have been thought a waste . With the stronger light all the marks of cultivation appeared ; it is only the want of fences and ditches that makes Britons think of a waste we never see at home ...
... English apprehension it might in the twilight have been thought a waste . With the stronger light all the marks of cultivation appeared ; it is only the want of fences and ditches that makes Britons think of a waste we never see at home ...
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... English- man as such throughout Europe - who can see with equanimity how the John Bull impress is itself a letter of credit , and the Briton is allowed , as none other is , to threaten and command . " You are known as a nation , " they ...
... English- man as such throughout Europe - who can see with equanimity how the John Bull impress is itself a letter of credit , and the Briton is allowed , as none other is , to threaten and command . " You are known as a nation , " they ...
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... English , French , and German , being entirely satis- fied that he was mistaken for a person of distinction . The meal being over , and the day being nearly over too , I did nothing worthy of note at this resting- place ; but I got a ...
... English , French , and German , being entirely satis- fied that he was mistaken for a person of distinction . The meal being over , and the day being nearly over too , I did nothing worthy of note at this resting- place ; but I got a ...
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Page 100 - And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt.
Page 15 - What are the hopes of man? Old Egypt's king Cheops erected the first pyramid, And largest, thinking it was just the thing To keep his memory whole, and mummy hid; But somebody or other, rummaging, Burglariously broke his coffin's lid: Let not a monument give you or me hopes, Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops.
Page 275 - I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
Page 63 - Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee : be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee : cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Page 301 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 63 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 48 - But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 78 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 18 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and...
Page 237 - I saw with my own eyes, and found them to excel all other human productions ; for the passages through the houses, and the varied windings of the paths across the courts, excited in me infinite admiration, as I passed from the courts into chambers, and from the chambers into colonnades, and from the colonnades into fresh houses, and again from these into courts unseen before.