A New Sea and an Old Land: Being Papers Suggested by a Visit to Egypt at the End of 1869 |
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... . A NEW THING IN COTTON , THE LANDING OF THE EMPRESS , 84 122 SHIPS ENTERING THE CANAL , 139 THE HADJI BEFRIENDS US , 162 DONKEY PROCESSION TO THE PYRAMIDS , 193 AN AWKWARD RENCONTRE , 208 A NEW SEA AND AN OLD LAND . CHAPTER I.
... . A NEW THING IN COTTON , THE LANDING OF THE EMPRESS , 84 122 SHIPS ENTERING THE CANAL , 139 THE HADJI BEFRIENDS US , 162 DONKEY PROCESSION TO THE PYRAMIDS , 193 AN AWKWARD RENCONTRE , 208 A NEW SEA AND AN OLD LAND . CHAPTER I.
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... ship - canal ; but in order to do this , preliminary works were necessary . Suez had no fresh water save what was brought in tanks from Cairo ; it therefore was required , for the existence of the workmen and for the prosecution of the ...
... ship - canal ; but in order to do this , preliminary works were necessary . Suez had no fresh water save what was brought in tanks from Cairo ; it therefore was required , for the existence of the workmen and for the prosecution of the ...
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... ship - canal , which was accordingly proceeded with . This canal takes the line ( see map ) from Port Saïd , a creation of the Company , in the Bay of Pelu- sium , by Lake Menzaleh , Lake Buleh , Lake Timseh , and the Bitter Lakes , to ...
... ship - canal , which was accordingly proceeded with . This canal takes the line ( see map ) from Port Saïd , a creation of the Company , in the Bay of Pelu- sium , by Lake Menzaleh , Lake Buleh , Lake Timseh , and the Bitter Lakes , to ...
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... ship - canal was a channel of comparatively small dimensions , joining those points . This work appears to have been at first of about the same section as the fresh - water canal before men- tioned , sufficient , nevertheless , for the ...
... ship - canal was a channel of comparatively small dimensions , joining those points . This work appears to have been at first of about the same section as the fresh - water canal before men- tioned , sufficient , nevertheless , for the ...
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... ships , had now to be proceeded with , and the last five years have been spent in inde- fatigably pushing forward these operations . The whole length of the Canal is about ninety miles . From Suez to the Bitter Lakes is above twelve ...
... ships , had now to be proceeded with , and the last five years have been spent in inde- fatigably pushing forward these operations . The whole length of the Canal is about ninety miles . From Suez to the Bitter Lakes is above twelve ...
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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.