Hand-book for Travellers in Egypt: Including Descriptions of the Course of the Nile to the Second Cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the Overland Transit to India, the Peninsula of Mount Sinai, the Oases, &cJohn Murray, 1847 - 448 Seiten |
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Aboo adytum Alexandria Amun Amunoph Amunre ancient town appears Arabs Asouan Athor bank bearing the name Beni Hassan blocks boat building built Cæsar Cairo called canal centre chamber Christian columns Coptic Coptos Copts crude brick Damietta Dayr deity desert distance dromos dynasty east eastern Egyptian entrance erected Ethiopia Ethiopians feet figures Gebel Girgeh granite Greek grottoes Herodotus hieroglyphics hills inhabitants inscription Isis island Karnak Kasr king Kneph Kossayr lake land Memlooks mentioned ments miles Mohammed monarch monuments mosk mounds mountain Natron nearly Nile nome Nubia Oasis obelisks opposite Osioot Osiris Pasha Pharaoh piastres Pliny portico present probably Pselcis Ptolemy pylon pyramid quarries reign remains Remeses river road rock Roman ROUTE ruins sculptures Shekh side square stands statue stone stood Strabo style supposed temple Tentyris Thebaid Thebes Thothmes tion tombs towers traced Upper Egypt valley village Wadee wall
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Seite 219 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Seite 89 - Osiris,39 the husband of Isis, and the celestial monarch of Egypt. Alexandria, which claimed his peculiar protection, gloried in the name of the city of Serapis. His temple,40 which rivalled the pride and magnificence of the Capitol, was erected on the spacious summit of an artificial mount, raised one hundred steps above the level of the adjacent parts of the city; and the interior cavity was strongly supported by arches, and distributed into vaults and subterraneous apartments. The consecrated...
Seite 85 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless and need not be preserved : if they disagree, they are pernicious and ought to be destroyed.
Seite 189 - The .French have uncovered all the pedestal of this statue, and all the cumbent or leonine parts of the figure ; these were before entirely concealed by sand. Instead, however, of answering the expectations raised concerning the work upon which it was supposed to rest, the pedestal proves to be a wretched substructure of brick-work and small pieces of stone put together, like the most insignificant piece of modern masonry, and wholly out of character both with respect to the prodigious labour bestowed...
Seite 344 - 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.
Seite 311 - John had constructed with his own hand a humble cell, in which he had dwelt above 50 years, without opening his door, without seeing the face of a woman, and without tasting any food that had been prepared by fire or any human art. Five days of the week he spent in prayer and meditation ; but on Saturdays and Sundays he regularly opened a small window, and gave audience to the crowd of suppliants who successively flowed from every part of the Christian world. The eunuch of Theodosius approached the...
Seite 347 - Roman visitors, however, shortly after, ascribed it to the son of Tithonus, and a multitude of inscriptions testified his miraculous powers, and the credulity of the writers. Previous to Strabo's time, the 'upper part of this statue, above the throne, had been broken and hurled down...
Seite 382 - On the second line are ingots and rings of silver, gold and silver vases of very elegant form, and several heads of animals of the same metals. On the third are ostrich eggs and feathers, ebony, precious stones and rings of gold, an ape, several silver cups, ivory...
Seite 94 - I have taken," said Amrou to the caliph, "the great city of the West. It is impossible for me to enumerate the variety of its riches and beauty; and I shall content myself with observing, that it contains four thousand palaces, four thousand baths, four hundred theatres or places of amusement, twelve thousand shops for the sale of vegetable food, and forty thousand tributary Jews.
Seite 343 - One chief is receiving the salutation of a foot-soldier ; another, seated amidst the spoil, strings his bow ; and a sutler suspends a water-skin on a pole he has fixed in the ground. Below this a body of infantry marches homewards ; and beyond them the king, attended by his fan-bearers, holds forth his hand to receive the homage of the priests and principal persons, who approach his throne to congratulate his'return.