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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... . 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 Stone CONTENTS .
... . 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 Stone CONTENTS .
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... Ruins in Old Thebes .. Grand Hall of the Memnonium .... PAGE 255 256 258 259 262 262 264 265 266 268 One of the Dragomen ... 269 View in the Memnonium , with Ruined Statue Joppa .. 271 of Rameses the Great . 207 A Second - class Horse ...
... Ruins in Old Thebes .. Grand Hall of the Memnonium .... PAGE 255 256 258 259 262 262 264 265 266 268 One of the Dragomen ... 269 View in the Memnonium , with Ruined Statue Joppa .. 271 of Rameses the Great . 207 A Second - class Horse ...
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... Ruins at Tell Hum ... 397 The Cavern of Usdum 340 View of the Lake from the Western Shore . 398 Reeds and Rushes on the Jordan 342 The Rock Partridge . 399 An Arab Skirmish in the Land of Moab ... Bathing - place of the Pilgrims ( from ...
... Ruins at Tell Hum ... 397 The Cavern of Usdum 340 View of the Lake from the Western Shore . 398 Reeds and Rushes on the Jordan 342 The Rock Partridge . 399 An Arab Skirmish in the Land of Moab ... Bathing - place of the Pilgrims ( from ...
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... ruins of the ancient town of Bubastis are about a mile from Zagazig , but they are so slight as to be unworthy a visit . Bubastis was an important place two thousand years ago , and was famous for a festival to which more than half a ...
... ruins of the ancient town of Bubastis are about a mile from Zagazig , but they are so slight as to be unworthy a visit . Bubastis was an important place two thousand years ago , and was famous for a festival to which more than half a ...
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... ruins , and not likely to be repaired . The government does not build any new ones , as it has more practical uses for its money , and the followers of Mohammed seem to be growing more and more indifferent to religious observances every ...
... ruins , and not likely to be repaired . The government does not build any new ones , as it has more practical uses for its money , and the followers of Mohammed seem to be growing more and more indifferent to religious observances every ...
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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.