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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... centuries down to our own time . If it shall be found that he has made a book which combines amusement and instruction for the youth of our land , he will feel that his labor has not been in vain . Many of the works consulted in the ...
... centuries down to our own time . If it shall be found that he has made a book which combines amusement and instruction for the youth of our land , he will feel that his labor has not been in vain . Many of the works consulted in the ...
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... century ago , but at present it is very generally broken down , and the hated infidel may visit the mosques of the principal cities of Egypt and Turkey , provided he pays for the privilege . They returned to the hotel in season for ...
... century ago , but at present it is very generally broken down , and the hated infidel may visit the mosques of the principal cities of Egypt and Turkey , provided he pays for the privilege . They returned to the hotel in season for ...
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... century , and still another to the eleventh century ; since that time there has been nothing of the sort till the Maritime Canal Company found it necessary , in 1861 , to supply the laborers on their great work with fresh - water . They ...
... century , and still another to the eleventh century ; since that time there has been nothing of the sort till the Maritime Canal Company found it necessary , in 1861 , to supply the laborers on their great work with fresh - water . They ...
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... centuries , and is still cul- tivated , though to a less extent than formerly , as much of the ground once devoted to wheat is now given up to cotton . Coffee is grown in some localities , and so are indigo and sugar ; there is a goodly ...
... centuries , and is still cul- tivated , though to a less extent than formerly , as much of the ground once devoted to wheat is now given up to cotton . Coffee is grown in some localities , and so are indigo and sugar ; there is a goodly ...
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... century by a Moslem general who had been sent from Tunis to invade Egypt ; he signalled his victory by building a city not far from Fostat ; the latter is called Masr - el - Ateekah , or Old Cairo , and was formerly the capital ; but ...
... century by a Moslem general who had been sent from Tunis to invade Egypt ; he signalled his victory by building a city not far from Fostat ; the latter is called Masr - el - Ateekah , or Old Cairo , and was formerly the capital ; but ...
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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.