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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... religious one . I have adopted the style of a narrative , and carefully avoided politics , attaching myself to no party . My opportunities in the country were known to be extensive , being in daily communication with natives and ...
... religious one . I have adopted the style of a narrative , and carefully avoided politics , attaching myself to no party . My opportunities in the country were known to be extensive , being in daily communication with natives and ...
Page ix
... religious rites and ceremonies of that mysterious , talented , and extraor- dinary people , who for centuries held ... religion -the folly of intellectual , and still more , of worldly pride the terrible consequences of idolatry and su ...
... religious rites and ceremonies of that mysterious , talented , and extraor- dinary people , who for centuries held ... religion -the folly of intellectual , and still more , of worldly pride the terrible consequences of idolatry and su ...
Page x
... religion of Moham- med , the spiritual darkness which for ages over- shadowed the earth - the persecution of the sword— the decline of Islamism , and the extensive changes which are now going on in the East - together with the ...
... religion of Moham- med , the spiritual darkness which for ages over- shadowed the earth - the persecution of the sword— the decline of Islamism , and the extensive changes which are now going on in the East - together with the ...
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... Religious fervour - Arab method of computing time - The mos'ques - Native schools - The citadel , and palace The mint - Printing - office — Hall of the Kh'aliphes , & c . - . ---- CHAPTER XIII . Page 327 Cairo - View from the Castle ...
... Religious fervour - Arab method of computing time - The mos'ques - Native schools - The citadel , and palace The mint - Printing - office — Hall of the Kh'aliphes , & c . - . ---- CHAPTER XIII . Page 327 Cairo - View from the Castle ...
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... religion , i . 257 : —his exer- tions in the cause of civilization ; his temperate , judicious , and con- ciliatory measures , i . 257 Burckhardt , Jno . Lewis , Esq . ( the late ) his character and disposition , his attainments ...
... religion , i . 257 : —his exer- tions in the cause of civilization ; his temperate , judicious , and con- ciliatory measures , i . 257 Burckhardt , Jno . Lewis , Esq . ( the late ) his character and disposition , his attainments ...
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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.