A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt: Including Descriptions of the Course of the Nile Through Egypt and Nubia, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids and Thebes, the Suez Canal, the Peninsula of Mount Sinai, the Oases, the Fyoom, EtcJ. Murray, 1875 - 505 Seiten |
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Seite 105 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames...
Seite 221 - ... town called Bubastis, where there is a temple of the goddess Bubastis, which well deserves to be described. Other temples may be grander, and may have cost more in the building, but there is none so pleasant to the eye as this of Bubastis.
Seite 453 - ... it is the capital of the province of the same name, and has two fairs annually, which are much frequented.
Seite 406 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land : for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
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Seite 413 - Apart from the procession itself stands the queen as a spectator of the ceremony ; and before her a scribe reads a scroll he has. unfolded. A priest turns round to offer incense to the white bull, and another, clapping his hands, brings up...
Seite 148 - I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a shelter to the stranger.