A New Sea and an Old Land: Being Papers Suggested by a Visit to Egypt at the End of 1869 |
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... interest , if there be any pursuit , all own some association with that long - famous land . Nor are its relations with learning and science alone . They are interlaced with everyday life and household words . The Mummies , the Nile ...
... interest , if there be any pursuit , all own some association with that long - famous land . Nor are its relations with learning and science alone . They are interlaced with everyday life and household words . The Mummies , the Nile ...
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... interest in itself , required the aid of imagination to give it charm ! Nay , the truth is rather that the Nile , in all senses gifted and affluent , and not as other rivers are , superadds a spiritual power to a surpassing natural ...
... interest in itself , required the aid of imagination to give it charm ! Nay , the truth is rather that the Nile , in all senses gifted and affluent , and not as other rivers are , superadds a spiritual power to a surpassing natural ...
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... interests had great Egypt when she did this ? what recked Europe whether Egypt did it or not ? Now let fall the curtain on old Egypt . Raise the curtain again on the latter part of the nineteenth century after Christ , and what is the ...
... interests had great Egypt when she did this ? what recked Europe whether Egypt did it or not ? Now let fall the curtain on old Egypt . Raise the curtain again on the latter part of the nineteenth century after Christ , and what is the ...
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... interest . He did not robe himself as a monk , but it was not this singularity that caused me to observe him . He wore two wideawake hats at once , a black one over a brown one , yet neither was this the reason of my regarding him . I ...
... interest . He did not robe himself as a monk , but it was not this singularity that caused me to observe him . He wore two wideawake hats at once , a black one over a brown one , yet neither was this the reason of my regarding him . I ...
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... interest was of course much en- grossed by the numbers of visitors to be seen in all the graveyards that we passed , and by the mourners that we took up or dropped at the many halting- places . What impressed me most was the willingness ...
... interest was of course much en- grossed by the numbers of visitors to be seen in all the graveyards that we passed , and by the mourners that we took up or dropped at the many halting- places . What impressed me most was the willingness ...
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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.