Cairo, Petra, and Damascus in 1839: With Remarks on the Government of Mehemet Ali and on the Present Prospects of SyriaJ. Murray, 1841 - 348 pagina's |
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Akaba Alexandria Alloeens ancient appeared Arabs arrived Baalbec baksheesh bazaars beautiful Bedaween Besharah Beyrout Cairo called camels caravan children of Israel Christian conscription convent covered Damascus deewans Desert desolate distance dromedary Edom Effendee Egypt Egyptian Elath encampment English entered entrance excavations favour feeling feet Fellaheen Fellahs gate Gaza Gebel government of Mehemet governor hands harbour Hebron height horses Jews journey keffieh Khasne land looking Magabel Maronites Mehemet Ali miles Mooslims morning mosque Mount Hor Mount Seir Mount Sinai mountains night o'clock Pacha party passed Pell's Petra piastres pillars pitched plain present reached received remains Rephidim ride rock rocky rode round ruins Salem sand Sayd scarcely seated seen servants Sheich Hussein side stone surrounded Syria temple tents tion town travellers tribes Turkish valley village Wady Mousa walls whole wild wilderness
Populaire passages
Pagina 36 - For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
Pagina 132 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brimstone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day ; The smoke thereof shall go up for ever: From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Pagina 47 - A wilderness, a land of deserts, and of pits; a land of drought, and of the shadow of death ; a land that no man (but a Christian) passeth through, and where no man dwelt (Jer.
Pagina 64 - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day, and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes ; and be ready against the third day : for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon Mount Sinai.
Pagina 8 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Pagina 150 - They are a wild people ; their hand is against every man, and every man's hand is against them. In the words of Gibbon, which strikingly assimilate with those of the prophecy, ' They are armed against mankind.
Pagina 137 - Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay ; but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Pagina 110 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Pagina 197 - And now, my race of terror run, Mine be the eve of tropic Sun ! No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay ; With disk like battle-target red, He rushes to his burning bed, Dyes the wide wave with bloody light, Then sinks at once — and all is night.
Pagina 37 - Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?