The Boy Travellers in the Far East: Adventures of two youths in a journey to Egypt and the Holy Land. Part fourthHarper & brothers, 1883 - 438 páginas |
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... Frank and Fred in their journeyings were mainly those of the writer of this book in the winter of 1873 - '74 , and in the spring of 1878. He has endeavored to give a faithful descrip- tion of Egypt and the Holy Land as they appear to ...
... Frank and Fred in their journeyings were mainly those of the writer of this book in the winter of 1873 - '74 , and in the spring of 1878. He has endeavored to give a faithful descrip- tion of Egypt and the Holy Land as they appear to ...
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... Frank and Fred in their wander- ings in Asia , and to such new readers as may desire to peruse it . He trusts the former will continue , and the latter make , an acquaintance that will prove neither unpleasant nor without instruction ...
... Frank and Fred in their wander- ings in Asia , and to such new readers as may desire to peruse it . He trusts the former will continue , and the latter make , an acquaintance that will prove neither unpleasant nor without instruction ...
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... Frank to suggest that the name might be made more descriptive of its character if it were called the Red - hot Sea . The thermometer stood at 101 ° in the cabin , and was only a little lower on deck ; the heat was enervating in the ex ...
... Frank to suggest that the name might be made more descriptive of its character if it were called the Red - hot Sea . The thermometer stood at 101 ° in the cabin , and was only a little lower on deck ; the heat was enervating in the ex ...
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... Frank and Fred would have been delighted to land at Jeddah and make a pilgrimage to Mecca , but the Doctor told them the jour- ney was out of the question , as no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred city of the Moslems , and the ...
... Frank and Fred would have been delighted to land at Jeddah and make a pilgrimage to Mecca , but the Doctor told them the jour- ney was out of the question , as no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred city of the Moslems , and the ...
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... Frank inquired . " The mob of fanatical Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to their religion for him to enter their sacred city - the birthplace of the founder of their religion ...
... Frank inquired . " The mob of fanatical Moslems would have killed him , " was the reply . " They would have considered it an insult to their religion for him to enter their sacred city - the birthplace of the founder of their religion ...
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Página 360 - And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
Página 113 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Página 113 - And thou hast walked about (how strange a story !) In Thebes's streets, three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous, Of which the very ruins are tremendous ! 2.
Página 408 - Are not Pharpar and Abana, rivers of Damascus, better than all the rivers of Israel?" Your objections to such an attempt, my dear Doctor, were, you may remember, two-fold. You insisted upon the advantages which the Scotsman possessed, from the very recent existence of that state of society in which his scene was to be laid. Many now alive, you remarked, well remembered...
Página 416 - In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me : 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.