A New Sea and an Old Land: Being Papers Suggested by a Visit to Egypt at the End of 1869 |
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... It comes at last . The word is heard from Cairo that the waters are rising , and the first green slimy con- dition of the augmented stream attests the fact . This greenness , however , is soon gone , and the 8 EGYPT AND THE STORY.
... It comes at last . The word is heard from Cairo that the waters are rising , and the first green slimy con- dition of the augmented stream attests the fact . This greenness , however , is soon gone , and the 8 EGYPT AND THE STORY.
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... rise goes on now somewhat fitfully but incessantly . The thick opaque character sometimes partially disappears , but the deep - red hue never , during high Nile , until the lower lands are reached , by which time much of the sediment ...
... rise goes on now somewhat fitfully but incessantly . The thick opaque character sometimes partially disappears , but the deep - red hue never , during high Nile , until the lower lands are reached , by which time much of the sediment ...
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... rising and the set- ting sun ? Then stands forth Egypt - the Egypt that was Pharaoh's — waking from a long sleep , decayed and halting , but trembling with a reflux of life . She vaunts that she will bring two seas together , that she ...
... rising and the set- ting sun ? Then stands forth Egypt - the Egypt that was Pharaoh's — waking from a long sleep , decayed and halting , but trembling with a reflux of life . She vaunts that she will bring two seas together , that she ...
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... rise and join his audience as I wished to do , but I found out afterwards that he had discovered a new interpretation of Scripture , and was anxious to caution all men that the common teaching is utterly erroneous , and that they can ...
... rise and join his audience as I wished to do , but I found out afterwards that he had discovered a new interpretation of Scripture , and was anxious to caution all men that the common teaching is utterly erroneous , and that they can ...
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... rise sufficiently for us to run in and land . The ship or the sea got into a great passion at this check , and began to pitch violently ; we passengers got slightly enraged too , those of us who had the pluck to show fight 44 GETTING ...
... rise sufficiently for us to run in and land . The ship or the sea got into a great passion at this check , and began to pitch violently ; we passengers got slightly enraged too , those of us who had the pluck to show fight 44 GETTING ...
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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...