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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... travellers , who were thoroughly acquainted with the real condition of the country , and might have disabused the public mind . But this , I apprehend , is no longer the case : the Pascha's policy is seen through and understood ; and ...
... travellers , who were thoroughly acquainted with the real condition of the country , and might have disabused the public mind . But this , I apprehend , is no longer the case : the Pascha's policy is seen through and understood ; and ...
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... traveller is always best appre- ciated by those who have trodden the same ground : it unfortunately happens that , owing to the great variety of contending interests , very discrepant accounts ob- tain a ready circulation , and the ...
... traveller is always best appre- ciated by those who have trodden the same ground : it unfortunately happens that , owing to the great variety of contending interests , very discrepant accounts ob- tain a ready circulation , and the ...
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... traveller , will , without hesitation , confirm all that I have advanced , —although , as regards the correctness of my inferences , I am liable to fallacy like other men . I have simply related what I saw , and what I know to be true ...
... traveller , will , without hesitation , confirm all that I have advanced , —although , as regards the correctness of my inferences , I am liable to fallacy like other men . I have simply related what I saw , and what I know to be true ...
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... travellers , & c . 282 CHAPTER XI . · Varieties of Oriental costume - The beard - Barbers and coffee - houses -Arab surgery - Hints to travellers - The philosophy of clothing- Scruples of the ancients concerning dress - Cotton - Wool ...
... travellers , & c . 282 CHAPTER XI . · Varieties of Oriental costume - The beard - Barbers and coffee - houses -Arab surgery - Hints to travellers - The philosophy of clothing- Scruples of the ancients concerning dress - Cotton - Wool ...
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... travellers at , i . 63 , 66 , 500 ; ii . 218 : -modern city ; its custom - house and quay , ii . 591 : - its bazaars , streets , and buildings , i . 78 , 441 : cleansing , ventilation , and draining of , i . 452 ; ii . 591 , 595 ...
... travellers at , i . 63 , 66 , 500 ; ii . 218 : -modern city ; its custom - house and quay , ii . 591 : - its bazaars , streets , and buildings , i . 78 , 441 : cleansing , ventilation , and draining of , i . 452 ; ii . 591 , 595 ...
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Aboukir Admiral Alexandria Allah ancient appearance Arabs beard beautiful believe blessings blow Boghos British Cairo called camel canal Cand'gia Canopus 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 hour Ibrahim idea inhabitants Janizary Khoran labour Lake Mareotis land look Malta Mamlûks Marabout means merchants miles Mohammed Mohammed Ali Mohammedan mos'que Mussulmaun native nature never night Nile obelisque object occasion officers once Osman Ottoman Empire palace Pascha passed persons piastres Porte prayer present Prophet religion residence Rosetta sail seemed seen ship sloop-of-war 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 x - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end; Why doing, sufFring, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
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 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 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 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 361 - 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 xi - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
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.