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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... remain more than a day at Suez , and the great majority are ready to leave an hour or two after their arrival . CHAPTER II . SUEZ . - WHERE THE ISRAELITES CROSSED. TRAVELLING IN THE SINAI DESERT . A SHOP IN SUEZ . " AYOON MOOSA -THE WELLS.
... remain more than a day at Suez , and the great majority are ready to leave an hour or two after their arrival . CHAPTER II . SUEZ . - WHERE THE ISRAELITES CROSSED. TRAVELLING IN THE SINAI DESERT . A SHOP IN SUEZ . " AYOON MOOSA -THE WELLS.
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... " one of the widest and most frequented streets of the part of Cairo that has not succumbed to Western innovations , and retains enough of its Eastern character to remain unpaved . The speed of their carriage was reduced , and a 4.
... " one of the widest and most frequented streets of the part of Cairo that has not succumbed to Western innovations , and retains enough of its Eastern character to remain unpaved . The speed of their carriage was reduced , and a 4.
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... remain as long as they liked ; but they had seen . all there was of interest about the place , and soon withdrew . Soon after leaving the khan they entered the cloth bazaar , where the shops were principally filled with cloths of ...
... remain as long as they liked ; but they had seen . all there was of interest about the place , and soon withdrew . Soon after leaving the khan they entered the cloth bazaar , where the shops were principally filled with cloths of ...
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... remain from three to six years at the university , and pay no fees for instruction . The profess- ors have no salaries , but depend upon presents from the pupils who can afford to make them , and upon what they can earn by private ...
... remain from three to six years at the university , and pay no fees for instruction . The profess- ors have no salaries , but depend upon presents from the pupils who can afford to make them , and upon what they can earn by private ...
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... remains , he may learn something of geometry , arithmetic , and other miscellaneous knowledge . Many of the students stay in Cairo , to become professors in the El - Azhar or other schools ; but those from for- eign lands generally ...
... remains , he may learn something of geometry , arithmetic , and other miscellaneous knowledge . Many of the students stay in Cairo , to become professors in the El - Azhar or other schools ; but those from for- eign lands generally ...
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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.