The Nile Boat Or, Glimpses of the Land of EgyptArthur Hall, Virtue, and Company, 1849 - 218 pagina's |
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The Nile boat; or, Glimpses of the land of Egypt, Volume 314 William Henry Bartlett Volledige weergave - 1850 |
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Abydos Alexandria Amunothph ancient Egyptians appearance Arabian Arabs architecture avenue bank bazaar beautiful BENI HASSAN boat Cairo Cambyses chamber Christian cloth colossal columns Copts court covered crowded Delta desert dynasty Efrit elegant Engravings Ethiopia eyes feet Fellahs formed Girgeh grandeur Greek HALL Hecatæus Heliopolis hieroglyphics hundred Karnak Keneh kings labour land LENOX AND TILDEN Libyan look Lower Egypt Luxor Medeenet Habou Mehemet Mehemet Ali Memlook Memnonium Memphis minarets monarch monuments mosque mountain mummies Nile noble numerous obelisks Osiris Osirtesen painted palace pasha passage peculiar Philæ plain priests principal propylæa propylon Ptolemy PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR pyramids Rameses Rameses II reign remarkable river rock ruin sacred sails Saladin sand scene sculptures seemed seen shore side specimen sphynxes stand statues style sultan supposed temple Theban Thebes TILDEN FOUNDATIONS tion tombs travellers Upper Egypt valley village visited walls Wilkinson wonder YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Pagina 78 - From the learned priests of Heliopolis Plato, who studied here several years, is believed to have derived the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, and of a future state of rewards and punishments. It has been mentioned in the description of Alexandria, that the seat of learning was transferred hence to that city, and that the obelisks of Cleopatra (so called) once ornamented the fallen city of Heliopolis.
Pagina 24 - I have taken," said Amrou to the caliph, "the great city of the West. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews.
Pagina 86 - Thy form stupendous here the gods have placed, Sparing each spot of harvest-bearing land ; And with this mighty work of art have graced A rocky isle, encumber'd once with sand ; And near the Pyramids have bid thee stand : Not that fierce Sphinx that Thebes erewhile laid waste, But great Latona's servant mild and bland ; Watching that prince beloved who fills the throne Of Egypt's plains, and calls the Nile his own.
Pagina 186 - ... but, for this, the features and the hair, far more than the colour, are answerable. The second observation was, how entirely the idea of indelicacy, which would naturally belong to such figures as those now around us if they were white, is prevented by their being of a different colour from ourselves. So much are we children of association and habit, and so instinctively and immediately do our feelings adapt themselves to a total change of circumstances; it is the partial and inconsistent change...
Pagina 204 - Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the ISRAELITES: or, a Journey from Cairo to Mount Sinai and Petra. By WH BABTLETT.
Pagina 3 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour: city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Pagina 44 - ... cannot be devised than that which condemns the natives of a country to perpetual servitude, under the arbitrary dominion of strangers and slaves. Yet such has been the state of Egypt above five hundred years. The most illustrious sultans of the Baharite and Borgite dynasties, were themselves promoted from the Tartar and Circassian bands; and the four and twenty Beys, or military chiefs, have ever been succeeded, not by their sons, but by their servants.
Pagina 70 - In the court is a well of slightly brackish water, which filters through the soil from the Nile; and on its most shaded side are commonly two water-jars, which are daily replenished with water of the Nile, brought from the river in skins.
Pagina 24 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.