The Modern History and Condition of Egypt: Its Climate, Diseases, and Capabilities; Exhibited in a Personal Narrative of Travels in that Country: with an Account of the Proceedings of Mohammed Ali Pascha, from 1801-1843, 1. kötetSmith, Elder and Company, 1843 |
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vi. oldal
... once dis- covered that an historian mixes fable with his facts , we remain in doubt as to what is real , and may possibly regard the whole as a romance . The follow- ing pages profess to contain no more than plain matter - of - fact ...
... once dis- covered that an historian mixes fable with his facts , we remain in doubt as to what is real , and may possibly regard the whole as a romance . The follow- ing pages profess to contain no more than plain matter - of - fact ...
lxv. oldal
... once fertile plains of ( sec Matarieh and Aboo Zabel ) , ii . 284 Onions , ii . 331 , 567 : - veneration of the Egyptians for , ii . 567 Opium , cultivation of , ii . 593 Opium eaters ; consumption of opium by professed , ii . 598 ...
... once fertile plains of ( sec Matarieh and Aboo Zabel ) , ii . 284 Onions , ii . 331 , 567 : - veneration of the Egyptians for , ii . 567 Opium , cultivation of , ii . 593 Opium eaters ; consumption of opium by professed , ii . 598 ...
11. oldal
... have been in a dream ; a host of things crowded upon my mind at once ; and I was sensible of such a strange admixture of feelings that they cannot easily be imagined , and to describe 12 THE GOODNESS OF PROVIDENCE . them is impossible .
... have been in a dream ; a host of things crowded upon my mind at once ; and I was sensible of such a strange admixture of feelings that they cannot easily be imagined , and to describe 12 THE GOODNESS OF PROVIDENCE . them is impossible .
24. oldal
... Once more we called upon the poor lad , an awful momentary pause ensued : -no answer was returned , and the plaintive moanings of the wind stealing through the blocks and smaller rigging , not only mocked our solicitude , but for a long ...
... Once more we called upon the poor lad , an awful momentary pause ensued : -no answer was returned , and the plaintive moanings of the wind stealing through the blocks and smaller rigging , not only mocked our solicitude , but for a long ...
30. oldal
... once plighted faith , nor the preven- tion of Dido's cruel untimely death , detain thee ? Such , indeed , is your impatience to leave me , that you pre- pare your fleet even in the rigorous wintry season , and haste to launch into the ...
... once plighted faith , nor the preven- tion of Dido's cruel untimely death , detain thee ? Such , indeed , is your impatience to leave me , that you pre- pare your fleet even in the rigorous wintry season , and haste to launch into the ...
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Aboukir Admiral afterwards Alexandria Allah ancient appearance Arabs army beard beautiful believe blessings blow Boghos British Cairo called camel canal Cand'gia Captain character chiefly Christians climate coast colour considerable Constantinople Consul course desert disease divan doubt East Egypt Egyptian English Europe Europeans eyes favour feelings fleet Frank French gale Greek guns habits hand harbour hour idea inhabitants Janizary Khoran labour Lake Mareotis land look Malta Mamlûks Marabout Mehemet Ali merchants miles Mohammed Mohammed Ali Mohammedan mos'que Mussulmaun native never night Nile obelisque object occasion officers once Osman Ottoman Empire palace Pascha passed persons piastres Porte prayer present Prophet religion Rosetta sail seemed seen ship slaves soon spot Sublime Porte suffered Sultan supposed Syria thing thought tion town traveller turban Turkish Turks Upper Egypt Viceroy weather whole wind
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155. oldal - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
315. oldal - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
338. oldal - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs crying, and cutting himself with stones.
156. oldal - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
158. oldal - twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
xi. oldal - The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
338. oldal - Lord, have mercy on my son ; for he is lunatic, and sore vexed, for oft,times he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
359. oldal - And fight for the religion of GOD against those who fight against you; but transgress not by attacking them first, for GOD loveth not the transgressors.
203. oldal - And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn ; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
107. oldal - Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him : let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.