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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... hand , when a strong wind blows from the south , the water is forced upon the sand - bank , and the tide , joined to this wind , will make a depth of six or seven feet where a few hours before the ground was dry . This is the testimony ...
... hand , when a strong wind blows from the south , the water is forced upon the sand - bank , and the tide , joined to this wind , will make a depth of six or seven feet where a few hours before the ground was dry . This is the testimony ...
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... hand labor . Excavating and dredging machines driven by steam were put in operation , and the work was pushed along very rapidly ; the channel through Lake Menzaleh was made by floating dredges equipped with long spouts that deposited ...
... hand labor . Excavating and dredging machines driven by steam were put in operation , and the work was pushed along very rapidly ; the channel through Lake Menzaleh was made by floating dredges equipped with long spouts that deposited ...
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... hand for managing his goad , and could not understand how he could control a goad and an American plough unless nature had equipped him with three hands . " " That the plough is the same here to -. A PLOUGHMAN AT WORK . AN EGYPTIAN ...
... hand for managing his goad , and could not understand how he could control a goad and an American plough unless nature had equipped him with three hands . " " That the plough is the same here to -. A PLOUGHMAN AT WORK . AN EGYPTIAN ...
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... hand side of the carriage and tell me what you see . " In a few minutes Frank gave a shout of delight , and called out , " There they are - the Pyramids ! the Pyramids ! " Fred saw them almost at the same moment , and joined his cousin ...
... hand side of the carriage and tell me what you see . " In a few minutes Frank gave a shout of delight , and called out , " There they are - the Pyramids ! the Pyramids ! " Fred saw them almost at the same moment , and joined his cousin ...
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... hands , and were only a few hundred feet in height . In a little while the attention of the youths was drawn to the minarets of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali and the high walls of the Cita- del , on the summit of the hill that overlooks ...
... hands , and were only a few hundred feet in height . In a little while the attention of the youths was drawn to the minarets of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali and the high walls of the Cita- del , on the summit of the hill that overlooks ...
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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.