Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1829 - Egypt |
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... gave the signal to hoist , and we had the good fortune to get him to the top without the slightest injury . We were sadly disappointed to hear that in the sepulchral chamber there was not a single mummy ; all he found in it was a piece ...
... gave the signal to hoist , and we had the good fortune to get him to the top without the slightest injury . We were sadly disappointed to hear that in the sepulchral chamber there was not a single mummy ; all he found in it was a piece ...
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... true description of the ceremony . He immedi- ately granted my request . Mr. Chantpie went alone to the Arab's house : I proceeded to the Copt's , gave him to understand that I was a - COPTIC PRIESTS . 13 medical man , and that.
... true description of the ceremony . He immedi- ately granted my request . Mr. Chantpie went alone to the Arab's house : I proceeded to the Copt's , gave him to understand that I was a - COPTIC PRIESTS . 13 medical man , and that.
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... gave away , after keeping them ten days or a fortnight . Of all the irascible little animals in the world , there are none so choleric as the chameleon . I trained two large ones to fight , and could at any time , by knocking their ...
... gave away , after keeping them ten days or a fortnight . Of all the irascible little animals in the world , there are none so choleric as the chameleon . I trained two large ones to fight , and could at any time , by knocking their ...
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... gave to a dog in a piece of meat ; it produced no sensible effect . I then diluted the remainder , smeared the point of a lancet with it , and wounded the dog in the shoulder this application he only survived three hours . I was ...
... gave to a dog in a piece of meat ; it produced no sensible effect . I then diluted the remainder , smeared the point of a lancet with it , and wounded the dog in the shoulder this application he only survived three hours . I was ...
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... banishment of the Bishop , with great calmness . I took I took my leave of his reverence , after inquiring about the convents in the neighbourhood , which I gave him to un- A MISSIONARY . 47 derstand my friend and myself were.
... banishment of the Bishop , with great calmness . I took I took my leave of his reverence , after inquiring about the convents in the neighbourhood , which I gave him to un- A MISSIONARY . 47 derstand my friend and myself were.
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Page 182 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Page 216 - 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.
Page 301 - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Page 182 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 311 - 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.
Page 300 - There appeared in these our days a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is yet living amongst us, and of the Gentiles is accepted for a Prophet of truth, but his own disciples call him the Son of God.
Page 248 - ... rumbling about my bed ; but I regarded him nothing at all. When afterwards I began to slumber, then he kept such a racket and rumbling upon the chamber stairs, as if many emptie hogsheads and barrels had been tumbled down...
Page 290 - There shall not be found among you any one that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 213 - Suez, as Niebuhr, with good reason, conjectures. There is no other road of three days' march, in the way from Suez towards Sinai ; nor is there any other well absolutely bitter on the whole of this coast, as far as Ras Mohammed [the extreme southern point of the peninsula].
Page 356 - Halley's observations on evaporation ; observations admitted by Shaw, though he calculates that the Jordan daily discharges into the Dead Sea six millions and ninety thousand tons of water, exclusively of the Arnon and seven other streams. Several travellers, and, among others, Troilo and d'Arvieux, assert that they remarked fragments of walls and palaces in the Dead Sea.