To Bagdad and BackCentury Company, 1928 - 298 páginas |
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... PALESTINE IX BY RAIL to the LAND OF CANAAN X IN OLD JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN XI THE " HOLY CITY " AFTER THE WORLD WAR XII " GOING DOWN TO EGYPT " IN A PULLMAN CAR XIII IN THE WHIRL OF THE STREETS OF CAIRO . XIV A TOUR OF PYRAMIDS ON THE ...
... PALESTINE IX BY RAIL to the LAND OF CANAAN X IN OLD JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN XI THE " HOLY CITY " AFTER THE WORLD WAR XII " GOING DOWN TO EGYPT " IN A PULLMAN CAR XIII IN THE WHIRL OF THE STREETS OF CAIRO . XIV A TOUR OF PYRAMIDS ON THE ...
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... Palestine . At two o'clock my legs began to stiffen . It seemed as if all the rheumatic pains in the world began to assert themselves . There was no way of relieving the ache , and we had nothing to do but alternately nap and wake up ...
... Palestine . At two o'clock my legs began to stiffen . It seemed as if all the rheumatic pains in the world began to assert themselves . There was no way of relieving the ache , and we had nothing to do but alternately nap and wake up ...
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... Palestine from Australia . They blazed the first transport trail and made the desert safe for a democracy . A treaty with the sheiks roving the land made it unnecessary to go armed and possible to proceed unharmed in a district where ...
... Palestine from Australia . They blazed the first transport trail and made the desert safe for a democracy . A treaty with the sheiks roving the land made it unnecessary to go armed and possible to proceed unharmed in a district where ...
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... Palestine and Syria . At this point the authority of one great nation ceases and that of another begins . On one side were the English " Tommies " -on the other , the French " Poilus . " Picturesque villages nestle in the valleys and ...
... Palestine and Syria . At this point the authority of one great nation ceases and that of another begins . On one side were the English " Tommies " -on the other , the French " Poilus . " Picturesque villages nestle in the valleys and ...
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... Palestine . Old geographic atlases and encyclopedias are out of date when it comes to boundary lines in Europe and the Near East after the World War . Through the window I looked out upon the city built upon the side of the Lebanon ...
... Palestine . Old geographic atlases and encyclopedias are out of date when it comes to boundary lines in Europe and the Near East after the World War . Through the window I looked out upon the city built upon the side of the Lebanon ...
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Africa American ancient Arabian Nights Arabic Bagdad baksheesh banks began Beirut Bethlehem blue Blue Nile boys British Cairo called camel caravans centuries Chaldea CHAPTER Christ Christian civilization color consul Damascus declared desert distance donkeys dreams dust East Egypt Egyptian England English eyes feel feet gazed glory hand Holy Land hour human hundred Iraq Jeff Jerusalem Jews Khartoum King live looked Mesopotamia miles millions Mohammed Mohammedan morning Moslem mosque nation native never Nile o'clock Omar Khayyám Omdurman once Orient palace Palestine Pasha passed Persia picture pyramids race railroad region reminded river Rubáiyát of Omar ruins sand scene seemed sheik Shullas Siddik Esee smiled Sowash stars stood story streets Sudan Sudanese Syrian Syrian Desert Temple Thou thought thousand Tigris tiny tion told tomb tower trees valley visited Wady Halfa walls women wonder Zaghloul
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Página 148 - Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
Página 16 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Página 98 - I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Página 296 - Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me - in vain!
Página 111 - Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End!
Página 296 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Página 84 - And those who husbanded the Golden grain, And those who flung it to the winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn'd As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
Página 136 - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
Página 250 - Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take ! KUZA-NAMA LIX Listen again.
Página 84 - They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahrain, that great Hunter — the Wild Ass Stamps o'er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.