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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... RIDE THROUGH DAN AND BANIAS .. 399 CHAPTER XXXI . SIGHTS AND SCENES IN DAMASCUS .. CHAPTER XXXII . DAMASCUS TO BEYROOT . - THE RUINS OF BAALBEC . - FAREWELL .. 411 425 ILLUSTRATIONS . Egyptian Captives Employed at Hard Labor Removing ...
... RIDE THROUGH DAN AND BANIAS .. 399 CHAPTER XXXI . SIGHTS AND SCENES IN DAMASCUS .. CHAPTER XXXII . DAMASCUS TO BEYROOT . - THE RUINS OF BAALBEC . - FAREWELL .. 411 425 ILLUSTRATIONS . Egyptian Captives Employed at Hard Labor Removing ...
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... ride on one of the small steamers maintained by the Canal Company you find that one mile is exactly like any other , and you are soon glad enough to seek the cabin and go to sleep . " Here are some figures showing the saving in ...
... ride on one of the small steamers maintained by the Canal Company you find that one mile is exactly like any other , and you are soon glad enough to seek the cabin and go to sleep . " Here are some figures showing the saving in ...
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... ride on a railway train . The Doctor explained that the abundant vegetation was due to the wonderful fertilizing power of the Nile water , and said it was no wonder that the ancient Egyptians worshipped the river , and attributed all ...
... ride on a railway train . The Doctor explained that the abundant vegetation was due to the wonderful fertilizing power of the Nile water , and said it was no wonder that the ancient Egyptians worshipped the river , and attributed all ...
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... riding on donkeys , or now and then conducting a stately camel , they might easily have believed themselves far away from Egypt . Suddenly the scene changed ; they passed the new theatre , where Ismail Pacha delighted to listen to ...
... riding on donkeys , or now and then conducting a stately camel , they might easily have believed themselves far away from Egypt . Suddenly the scene changed ; they passed the new theatre , where Ismail Pacha delighted to listen to ...
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... he had no hesitation in striking right and left among those who were in the way . A FIRST RIDE IN CAIRO . 51 High officials and. A STREET IN CAIRO . A CALIPH OF EGYPT ON HIS THRONE . PART OF. 50 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND ...
... he had no hesitation in striking right and left among those who were in the way . A FIRST RIDE IN CAIRO . 51 High officials and. A STREET IN CAIRO . A CALIPH OF EGYPT ON HIS THRONE . PART OF. 50 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND ...
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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.