Egypt: a familiar description of the land, people and produce1850 |
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Ægypt Alexandria ancient Egyptians animal antiquity appearance Arabs Assouan Assyria banks baths beautiful Bedouins Cairo called camel canal caravan chief Christians colossal colour commenced Coptic Copts court covered crocodile Damietta Delta desert durweeshes DYNASTY eastern Egyptian Vulture entrance Esneh European feet Fellahs four French frequently granite hands head Heeren Herodotus hieroglyphics hippopotamus horses houses hundred immense inhabitants Karnac king Koran labour land Lane Lower Egypt Luxor magician Mamelukes MEDINET ABOU Menouf miles Modern Egyptians Mohammed Mohammed Ali Mohammedan monuments Mooslims mosque mountains mouth mummies nearly Nile oasis palace Pasha persons piastres pilgrims prayers present Prophet propyla Ptolemy pyramid Quarterly Review Red Sea remains remarkable river rocks Rosetta round ruins sacred sand says scene sculptures side slaves Sown stone Strabo streets Sultan temple Thebes thousand tombs town traveller Turkish Upper Egypt valley village walls whole women
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xii ページ - So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he took all : he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
254 ページ - Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
232 ページ - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
xi ページ - For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
224 ページ - This correction made his description more striking than it had been without it ; since Lord Nelson generally had his empty sleeve attached to the breast of his coat: but it was the right arm that he had lost. Without saying that I suspected the boy had made a mistake, I asked the magician whether the objects appeared in the ink as if actually before the eyes, or as if in a glass, which makes the right appear left. He answered, that they appeared as in a mirror. This rendered the boy's description...
224 ページ - Frank dress, with his hand placed to his head, wearing spectacles, and with one foot on the ground, and the other raised behind him, as if he were stepping down from a seat. The description was exactly true in every respect : the peculiar position of the hand was occasioned by an almost constant headache; and that of the foot or leg, by a stiff knee, caused by a fall from a horse, in hunting.
140 ページ - Egyptians, who gloried in this marvellous revolution, were disposed to hope, and to believe, that the number of the monks was equal to the remainder of the people; and posterity might repeat the saying which had formerly been applied to the sacred animals of the same country, that in Egypt it was less difficult to find a god than a man.
142 ページ - The doctrines of the immortality of the soul, and of future rewards and punishments, are recognised by the Mooslims; who do not, as many imagine, suppose that women have no souls.
xiii ページ - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
283 ページ - When he inclines to surprise any one who is too far from him, he creeps with his side towards the person, and his head averted, till judging his distance, he turns round, springs upon him, and fastens upon the part next to him ; for it is not true what is said that the cerastes does not leap or spring.