A New Sea and an Old Land: Being Papers Suggested by a Visit to Egypt at the End of 1869 |
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... thoughts of men . Thus the opening of the Canal had scarcely its share of in- terest . But , though the Continent has changed so greatly , it is once more at peace , and it may be hoped , perhaps , that attention will again be directed ...
... thoughts of men . Thus the opening of the Canal had scarcely its share of in- terest . But , though the Continent has changed so greatly , it is once more at peace , and it may be hoped , perhaps , that attention will again be directed ...
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... thought , were from everlast- ing no one could declare its generation ; its course was immeasurable ; the waters rose and fell without apparent cause . A time came when the Nile ceased to be divine ; but it did not cease , and has not ...
... thought , were from everlast- ing no one could declare its generation ; its course was immeasurable ; the waters rose and fell without apparent cause . A time came when the Nile ceased to be divine ; but it did not cease , and has not ...
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... thoughts are due to some important uses to which Providence has been pleased to put this land . Abram , perishing of famine , was led thither and nourished at a time when he was childless , and his death must have frustrated the ...
... thoughts are due to some important uses to which Providence has been pleased to put this land . Abram , perishing of famine , was led thither and nourished at a time when he was childless , and his death must have frustrated the ...
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... And perhaps it may be thought , if proof of antiquity be the object , that * Or 16th , according to some . The more moderate calculation is here taken . Adam might serve the turn of the most ambitious . OF THE SUEZ CANAL . 13.
... And perhaps it may be thought , if proof of antiquity be the object , that * Or 16th , according to some . The more moderate calculation is here taken . Adam might serve the turn of the most ambitious . OF THE SUEZ CANAL . 13.
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... thought they had exhausted the secrets of the pyramid , but they had not . A cunning chamber was contrived in the mass of masonry , which was entered in the year 1837 or thereabouts , to which time , from the date of its construction ...
... thought they had exhausted the secrets of the pyramid , but they had not . A cunning chamber was contrived in the mass of masonry , which was entered in the year 1837 or thereabouts , to which time , from the date of its construction ...
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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.