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, Volume 1Smith, Elder and Company, 1843 - Egypt |
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... 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 , and if at any time an opinion is given , it is only after ...
... 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 , and if at any time an opinion is given , it is only after ...
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... facts , customs , and the fulfilment of ancient prophecy : and I am not without hope that my remarks may tend , in some degree to counteract the spirit of infidelity which has , of late years , been gradually insinuating itself ...
... facts , customs , and the fulfilment of ancient prophecy : and I am not without hope that my remarks may tend , in some degree to counteract the spirit of infidelity which has , of late years , been gradually insinuating itself ...
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... facts only as are historically incontroverti- ble , and the legitimate inferences from which are cal- culated to instruct the understanding , and improve the heart . I have endeavoured to lay before the reader in a simple , plain , and ...
... facts only as are historically incontroverti- ble , and the legitimate inferences from which are cal- culated to instruct the understanding , and improve the heart . I have endeavoured to lay before the reader in a simple , plain , and ...
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... Facts connected with the detention and subsequent restoration of the Ottoman fleet - The war in Syria - Summary of events - Interference of Great Britain - The fall of Caiffa , Beyrout , Tripoli , and Tarsoos— The bombardment of Acre ...
... Facts connected with the detention and subsequent restoration of the Ottoman fleet - The war in Syria - Summary of events - Interference of Great Britain - The fall of Caiffa , Beyrout , Tripoli , and Tarsoos— The bombardment of Acre ...
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... facts connected with its detention and restoration , i . 424 , 429 , 441 , 450 , 478 , 480 , 481 : -its departure from Egypt , i . 450 Flies , i . 96 , 111 , 169 , 188 ; ii . 381,571 Floods of Egypt ( see Nile ) , ii . 602 to 604 ...
... facts connected with its detention and restoration , i . 424 , 429 , 441 , 450 , 478 , 480 , 481 : -its departure from Egypt , i . 450 Flies , i . 96 , 111 , 169 , 188 ; ii . 381,571 Floods of Egypt ( see Nile ) , ii . 602 to 604 ...
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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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Page 155 - 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...
Page 315 - 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.
Page 338 - 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.
Page 156 - 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...
Page 158 - twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Page xi - 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.
Page 338 - 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.
Page 359 - 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.
Page 203 - 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.
Page 107 - Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him : let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.