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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... built city , seventy miles from Jeddah , with a population of about fifty thousand . The most interesting edifice in the place is the Caaba , ' or Shrine , which stands in the centre of a large square , and has at one corner the famous ...
... built city , seventy miles from Jeddah , with a population of about fifty thousand . The most interesting edifice in the place is the Caaba , ' or Shrine , which stands in the centre of a large square , and has at one corner the famous ...
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... built so that the railway trains could be taken along - side the steamers , and thus facilitate the transfer of passengers and freight . The pier is about fifty feet wide , and has a solid foundation of artificial stone sunk deep into ...
... built so that the railway trains could be taken along - side the steamers , and thus facilitate the transfer of passengers and freight . The pier is about fifty feet wide , and has a solid foundation of artificial stone sunk deep into ...
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... built for this occasion , roads were opened that were of no use afterward , and an enormous amount of money was spent for fireworks , music , banquets , and presents of various kinds to all the guests . The Empress of France was present ...
... built for this occasion , roads were opened that were of no use afterward , and an enormous amount of money was spent for fireworks , music , banquets , and presents of various kinds to all the guests . The Empress of France was present ...
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... built villages of the Egyptians passed as in a panorama , the white walls of the houses of Cairo took the place of the more primitive structures , groups of men and camels , and other beasts of burden , were seen wending their way to ...
... built villages of the Egyptians passed as in a panorama , the white walls of the houses of Cairo took the place of the more primitive structures , groups of men and camels , and other beasts of burden , were seen wending their way to ...
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... built strong walls around Cairo , and founded the cita- del on the hill at the southern end . The city is about two miles broad by three in length , and stands on a plain overlooked by the range of the Mokattam Hills ; the new quarter ...
... built strong walls around Cairo , and founded the cita- del on the hill at the southern end . The city is about two miles broad by three in length , and stands on a plain overlooked by the range of the Mokattam Hills ; the new quarter ...
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Página 361 - Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
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.