Eastward, Band 33A. Strahan, 1866 - 305 Seiten |
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Seite 58 - And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel ; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these : so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Seite 56 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Seite 58 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Seite 58 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them...
Seite 54 - And Pharaoh said unto him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more ; for in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.
Seite 37 - Oblivion reclineth semi-somnous on a pyramid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanian erections, and turning old glories into dreams. History sinketh beneath her cloud. The traveller as he passeth amazedly through those deserts, asketh of her, who builded them ? and she mumbleth something, but what it is he heareth not.
Seite 6 - ... and rest themselves, but fearing to do so. A traveller tells us that on one occasion, a little lark, which followed the ship for a considerable distance, was at last compelled through sheer weariness to alight. He was so worn out as to be easily caught. The warmth of the hand was so agreeable to him that he sat down on it, burying his little cold feet in his feathers, and looking about with his bright eye not in the least afraid, and as if feeling assured that he had been cast amongst good kind...
Seite 27 - ... not without fear of subsequent punishment, which, however, was not inflicted. He was a thorough type of formalism. But to return to our railway journey. By far the most notable objects we saw before reaching Cairo were two grey triangles rising over some palms to the south, and piercing, wedge-like, the blue sky : they were the Pyramids. We reached Cairo in the evening, in time to enjoy a golden sunset with burnished clouds rising from the horizon of the Delta to the zenith. Except in peculiar...
Seite 37 - Egyptian antiquities are not more extensive than my own, that the steps I have spoken of are not inside, but outside the Pyramid ; and that when built these ledges were all covered so as to present a smooth surface of polished marble, which has been stripped off by sundry Caliphs, and made use of in other buildings. Let me also remind those who have forgotten their geography, that this big Pyramid is about 480 feet high, and that its base covers thirteen acres.