Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and the Holy Land: Including a Journey Round the Dead Sea, and Through the Country East of the JordanJohn Murray, 1845 - 150 من الصفحات |
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... walls are smooth , the sculpture not having even been commenced , and in the inte- rior it is not finished , there being in no instance either stucco or painting . There has been first a quay on the river's side , and then a flight of ...
... walls are smooth , the sculpture not having even been commenced , and in the inte- rior it is not finished , there being in no instance either stucco or painting . There has been first a quay on the river's side , and then a flight of ...
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... wall : one is a man , the other ( called in Nubia the soont ) tree , which a woman with the lotus flower in her they affect more than the date , or any hand . There is a double row of hiero- other tree in this country . On coming ...
... wall : one is a man , the other ( called in Nubia the soont ) tree , which a woman with the lotus flower in her they affect more than the date , or any hand . There is a double row of hiero- other tree in this country . On coming ...
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... wall , but are full eight feet from it ; and were it not for a narrow ridge of the rock which joins them to the surface , from the back part of the necks down- wards , they would be wholly detached . This prompt compliance calmed his ...
... wall , but are full eight feet from it ; and were it not for a narrow ridge of the rock which joins them to the surface , from the back part of the necks down- wards , they would be wholly detached . This prompt compliance calmed his ...
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... wall roughly chi- selled , uneven in its surface , and hav- ing every appearance of unfinished work . As far as we could see down , which was not more than six or eight inches , it still continued the same . The projection was about ...
... wall roughly chi- selled , uneven in its surface , and hav- ing every appearance of unfinished work . As far as we could see down , which was not more than six or eight inches , it still continued the same . The projection was about ...
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... Walls- Description of the small Temple - We start on our return - The Cashiefs - Temples at Derry - At Armada - At Sabour - At Offidena - At Dekki - At Garbe Girshe - At Garbe Dendour - Unable to visit the Temple at Kalapsche - Ruins at ...
... Walls- Description of the small Temple - We start on our return - The Cashiefs - Temples at Derry - At Armada - At Sabour - At Offidena - At Dekki - At Garbe Girshe - At Garbe Dendour - Unable to visit the Temple at Kalapsche - Ruins at ...
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Abou Admiral afternoon afterwards Algeziras amongst ancient appearance Arabs armed arrived artillery attack Bankes bastion batteries battering-ships British camp cannonade Captain cashiefs centre Ceuta columns combined fleets command continued crew Damascus desert distance Egypt enemy enemy's erected Europa Europa Point fascines fire Fort St four frigate front garrison Gibraltar governor Grand battery guard gun-boats guns Hamah hill janissary Kerek land Landport lines ment merlons Minorca mole morning mortar boats mountains mounted night Nubia o'clock observed officers Old mole ordered ordnance Palmones Palmyra party passed piastres plain prisoners quarter regiment remains returned river road rock Roman round ruins sailed sand sent Sheikh shells ships Shobek shot side siege Sir Charles Knowles soldier soon southward Spaniards Spanish stone Tangier temple tents Tiberias tion tombs took town troops vessels village visited Wady Mousa wall wards whilst Willis's wounded xebeque
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الصفحة 65 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
الصفحة 93 - And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
الصفحة 128 - Perhaps there is nothing in the world that resembles it. Only a portion of a very extensive architectural elevation is seen at first, but it has been so contrived that a statue with expanded wings, perhaps of victory, just fills the centre of the aperture in front, which, being closed below by the sides of the rock folding over each other, gives to the figure the appearance of being suspended...
الصفحة 127 - Petra: as we advanced, the natural features of the defile grew more and more imposing at every step, and the excavations and sculpture more frequent on both sides, till it presented at last a continued street of tombs, beyond which the rocks gradually approaching each other, seemed all at once to close without any outlet. There is, however, one frightful chasm for the passage of the stream, which furnishes, as it did anciently, the only avenue to Petra on this side. It is impossible to conceive...
الصفحة 108 - The boy, who was usually stationed on the works where a large party was employed to inform the men when the enemy's fire was directed to that place, had been reproving them for their carelessness in not attending to him, and had just turned his head toward the enemy, when he observed this shot, and instantly called for them to take care ; his caution was, however, too late ; the shot entered the embrasure, and had the above-recited fatal effect. It is somewhat singular...
الصفحة 21 - But where to find that happiest spot below, Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone 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.
الصفحة 127 - ... yards together, and there is little more light than in a cavern. The screaming of the eagles, hawks, and owls who were soaring above our heads in considerable numbers, seemingly annoyed at any one approaching their lonely habitation, added much to the singularity of this scene.
الصفحة 133 - 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.
الصفحة 101 - Martin, observing his distress, generously risked his own life in defence of his officer, and ran to extricate him ; but finding his own efforts ineffectual, called for assistance, when another of the guard joining him, they relieved the officer from his situation, and almost at the same instant the shell burst and levelled the traverse to the ground.
الصفحة 47 - Egyptian plain (That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates, Two hundred horsemen and two hundred cars From each wide portal issuing to the wars...