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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... interesting in the world , " remarked the Doc- tor , who came on deck just in time to catch the words of the youth . " Egypt is the oldest country of which we have a definite history , and there is no other land that contains so many ...
... interesting in the world , " remarked the Doc- tor , who came on deck just in time to catch the words of the youth . " Egypt is the oldest country of which we have a definite history , and there is no other land that contains so many ...
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... interesting to their school - mates in America , and to other youths of their age . * Soon after entering the Red Sea they passed the island of Perim , a barren stretch of rock and sand , crowned with a signal station , from which the ...
... interesting to their school - mates in America , and to other youths of their age . * Soon after entering the Red Sea they passed the island of Perim , a barren stretch of rock and sand , crowned with a signal station , from which the ...
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... 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 Black Stone , ' which the Moslems believe was brought from heaven by the angels . Burckhardt ...
... 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 Black Stone , ' which the Moslems believe was brought from heaven by the angels . Burckhardt ...
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... interesting , " said Frank ; " but is this really the place ? " " We cannot be abso- lutely certain of that , " was the reply , " as there are different opinions on the subject . But it was in this neighborhood cer- tainly , and some of ...
... interesting , " said Frank ; " but is this really the place ? " " We cannot be abso- lutely certain of that , " was the reply , " as there are different opinions on the subject . But it was in this neighborhood cer- tainly , and some of ...
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... interesting figures may be given . With a nominal value of 500 fr . , they had fallen in 1863 to 220 fr . In 1869 , the year the Canal was opened , they rose to 663 fr .; in 1880 they had reached 715 fr . , and before the year closed ...
... interesting figures may be given . With a nominal value of 500 fr . , they had fallen in 1863 to 220 fr . In 1869 , the year the Canal was opened , they rose to 663 fr .; in 1880 they had reached 715 fr . , and before the year closed ...
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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.