Egypt and Mohammed Ali: Or, Travels in the Valley of the Nile, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1834 - Egypt |
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... according to the hypo- thesis of Norden , through this valley , since , as Burckhardt observes , the ground rises for about four miles , from Philæ towards Es - Souan , after which the descent is towards the north . At a short distance ...
... according to the hypo- thesis of Norden , through this valley , since , as Burckhardt observes , the ground rises for about four miles , from Philæ towards Es - Souan , after which the descent is towards the north . At a short distance ...
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... according to Makrizi , the remains of twenty - one thousand persons , who , about the year 806 of the Hejira , perished of the plague . But to such extravagant relations no credit is due . The ancient Saracen town , whose extent can ...
... according to Makrizi , the remains of twenty - one thousand persons , who , about the year 806 of the Hejira , perished of the plague . But to such extravagant relations no credit is due . The ancient Saracen town , whose extent can ...
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... according to the sacer- dotal doctrine . He is seated on a throne , with a votary presenting offerings before him , and bears the sceptre , and the ordinary symbol of the gods . His mitre is correctly represented by Champollion , who ...
... according to the sacer- dotal doctrine . He is seated on a throne , with a votary presenting offerings before him , and bears the sceptre , and the ordinary symbol of the gods . His mitre is correctly represented by Champollion , who ...
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... according to the interpretation given her , means , " without trees . " If this be the case , the name must be derived after the fashion of lucus from non lucendo ; for the date - palms of the village are numerous ; but the natives , in ...
... according to the interpretation given her , means , " without trees . " If this be the case , the name must be derived after the fashion of lucus from non lucendo ; for the date - palms of the village are numerous ; but the natives , in ...
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... be dedicated to the same deity at this place , and the temple of Bouto at Esneh . Venus's magnificent fane at Déndera faces almost due north , where , according to the 24 HUMAN SACRIFICE . Hindoos , the land of the C 4.
... be dedicated to the same deity at this place , and the temple of Bouto at Esneh . Venus's magnificent fane at Déndera faces almost due north , where , according to the 24 HUMAN SACRIFICE . Hindoos , the land of the C 4.
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Page 58 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet: I should have slept; then had I been at rest: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves...
Page ii - How has kind Heaven adorn'd the happy land, And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! But what avail her unexhausted stores, Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, With all the gifts that Heaven and Earth impart, The smiles of Nature, and the charms of Art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains...
Page ii - With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains ? The poor inhabitant beholds in vain The redd'ning orange, and the swelling grain.
Page 76 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 63 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded : the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat ; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye survey'd the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 59 - Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight, Ye gods who rule the regions of the night, Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state! Obscure they went thro' dreary shades, that led Along the waste dominions of the dead.
Page 336 - ... which the traveller beholds on approaching the city. Ascending a long flight of steps, and passing under a magnificent doorway, we entered the vestibule, and proceeded towards the sacred portion of the edifice ; where, on stepping over a small railing, it was necessary to take oif our babooshes, or red Turkish shoes.
Page 34 - With various skill, and high embroidery graced. In this was every art, and every charm, To win the wisest, and the coldest warm : Fond love, the gentle vow, the gay desire, The kind deceit, the still reviving fire, 250 Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Page 562 - Mecca, and the pyramids of Egypt"; fancying these last to be the sepulchres of Seth, and of Enoch and Sabi his two sons, whom they look on as the first propagators of their religion ; at these structures they sacrifice a cock and a black calf, and offer up incense y.
Page 51 - Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars 505 From each wide portal issuing to the wars...