Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor; During the Years 1817 & 1818 |
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... took a poor cowardly part , and urged that we were in a savage country , and had better temporize till we were on our return , thus showing of how little use these fellows are to protect tra- vellers . June 28. Passed Ibrim , situated ...
... took a poor cowardly part , and urged that we were in a savage country , and had better temporize till we were on our return , thus showing of how little use these fellows are to protect tra- vellers . June 28. Passed Ibrim , situated ...
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... took it when we were all asleep in our beds , and we only perceived our situation on awaking at Elpha . We here found that neither asses nor camels had arrived to take us up to the temple above the second cataract which we had heard off ...
... took it when we were all asleep in our beds , and we only perceived our situation on awaking at Elpha . We here found that neither asses nor camels had arrived to take us up to the temple above the second cataract which we had heard off ...
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... took their clothes , arms , and effects out of the boat , and walked off to a sackey * , about twenty yards distance , on the banks of river ; here they squatted down amongst a considerable number of natives . We had not taken notice of ...
... took their clothes , arms , and effects out of the boat , and walked off to a sackey * , about twenty yards distance , on the banks of river ; here they squatted down amongst a considerable number of natives . We had not taken notice of ...
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... took account of every thing in the shape of a weapon ; for seeing affairs in this posture we had prepared for the worst , and laid out all our arms in readiness , of which fortunately we had a good stock . A message now came from the ...
... took account of every thing in the shape of a weapon ; for seeing affairs in this posture we had prepared for the worst , and laid out all our arms in readiness , of which fortunately we had a good stock . A message now came from the ...
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... took care they should all see were pretty numerous and loaded . The asses were now brought , and the people endeavoured to persuade us to go off to the temple , evidently in the hope of plundering the boat when we were gone ; we easily ...
... took care they should all see were pretty numerous and loaded . The asses were now brought , and the people endeavoured to persuade us to go off to the temple , evidently in the hope of plundering the boat when we were gone ; we easily ...
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Aleppo alto-relievo amongst ancient antiquities appearance Arabs arches arms arrived asked Assuan Baalbec backsheeish Bankes Belzoni boat Cairo calcarious camels cashiefs centre chamber columns cornice crew crossed cultivated Daoud Derry desert distance door doura Ebsambal edifice Egypt Egyptian eight El Arish excavations feet figures foot four front Gourna granite Greek Halleel Hamah Hassan head hieroglyphics hills hundred inches inclosed inscription Isis Jaffa janissary khan labours Lady Hester Stanhope latter Lebanon mameluke morning mountains nahr Narsah natives neighbourhood night Nile noticed Nubia observed open the temple opposite side ornamented Osiris Palmyra pashaw passed peristyle Philæ piastres pillars plain portico present pylon reis remains river road rock Roman ruins sailors Salt sanctuary sand second cataract seen sent Sheikh shew situated small temple square statues stone Syria Thebes thing told tomb took town travellers Tripoli Turks village wall
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Page 201 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 536 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Page 533 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Page 536 - And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
Page 539 - And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son : and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
Page 537 - Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border: let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country : we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells : we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
Page 538 - And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom...
Page 55 - Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own ; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease : The naked Negro, panting at the line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.
Page 534 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Page 538 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.