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 , 84 THE LANDING OF THE EMPRESS , 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 , 84 THE LANDING OF THE EMPRESS , 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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... entered Egypt by the gardens of Alexandria or the plain of Assouan . Yet it is the same everywhere , only because it would be impossible to make any addition to the sweetness of odours , the brilliancy of the colours , or the exquisite ...
... entered Egypt by the gardens of Alexandria or the plain of Assouan . Yet it is the same everywhere , only because it would be impossible to make any addition to the sweetness of odours , the brilliancy of the colours , or the exquisite ...
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... entered in the year 1837 or thereabouts , to which time , from the date of its construction long before Abram , it had never been seen by mortal eye , never trodden by mortal foot , we may confidently believe . Before this discovery no ...
... entered in the year 1837 or thereabouts , to which time , from the date of its construction long before Abram , it had never been seen by mortal eye , never trodden by mortal foot , we may confidently believe . Before this discovery no ...
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... entered Jeru- salem and pillaged the Temple . It is now necessary to hurry on , or space will fail . Somewhere in the 24th Egyptian dynasty Rome was founded . About the same period the power of Egypt was declining , and she found it ...
... entered Jeru- salem and pillaged the Temple . It is now necessary to hurry on , or space will fail . Somewhere in the 24th Egyptian dynasty Rome was founded . About the same period the power of Egypt was declining , and she found it ...
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... entered a different carriage to proceed to Frank- fort , which I reached in the course of the morning , and found it white with snow , the depth of which a pitiless storm was increasing every minute . I could not travel farther without ...
... entered a different carriage to proceed to Frank- fort , which I reached in the course of the morning , and found it white with snow , the depth of which a pitiless storm was increasing every minute . I could not travel farther without ...
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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 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 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 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 9 - I dwell with more pleasure, than that of seeing the first burst of the Nile into one of the great channels of its annual overflow. All nature shouts for joy. The men, the children, the buffaloes, gambol in its refreshing waters, the broad waves sparkle with shoals of fish, and fowl of every wing flutter over them in clouds. Nor is this jubilee of nature confined to the higher orders of creation. The moment the sand becomes moistened by the approach of the fertilizing waters, it is literally alive...