The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 3American publishing Company, 1904 |
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The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner Visualização integral - 1904 |
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner Visualização integral - 1904 |
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner, Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner Visualização integral - 1904 |
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Abd-el-Atti Aboo ancient appearance Arab Assouan backsheesh bank bazaars beautiful Bitter Lakes boat built cabin Cairo called camels canal cataract clothes color Copt crew crowd dahabeëh dark deck desert donkeys dragoman dress East Egypt Egyptian eyes feet Ghawazees girls gown granite Greek half hand harem head hills hundred Ismailia Karnak Khedive Kom Ombos land light live look Luxor miles Mohammed morning Moslems mosque mummy never night Nile Nubian oriental Osiris palace palms pass Pharaohs Philæ piastre pyramids Rameses Rameses II reïs religion river rockets rocks round ruins sail sailors sakiya sand sculptures seen shadoofs sheykh shore side sight sort squatting stand stone street temple Thebes thing thousand tion tombs town traveler turban tyeb vast village voyage Wady Halfa walk walls wind woman women yellow
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Página 317 - So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem, Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
Página 448 - We rode round the town on an elevated dyke, lined with palms, and wound onward over a flat, rich with wheat and barley, to Mitrahenny, a little village in a splendid palm-grove. This marks the central spot of the ruins of old Memphis. Here are some mounds, here are found fragments of statues and cut stones, which are preserved in a temporary shelter. And here, lying on its side, in a hollow from which the water was just subsiding, is a polished colossal statue of Rameses II. — the Pharaoh who left...
Página 317 - And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when 1 went to Mahanaim : but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Página 333 - It is possible that the priests, who held their religious philosophy a profound secret from the vulgar (whose religion was simply a gross worship of symbols), never relinquished the belief expressed in their sacred texts, which say of God "that He is the sole generator in heaven and earth, and that He has not been begotten. . . That He is the only living and true God, who was begotten by Himself. . . He who has existed from the beginning. . . . who has made all things and was not Himself made.
Página 121 - Hasaneyn stirs his soup or bastes his chicken with perfect sang froid. The fact is that these Orientals have got a thousand or two thousand years beyond worry, and never feel any responsibility for what others are doing. The waiter, a handsome Cairene, is the perfection of a trained servant, who understands signs better than English. Hoseyn Ali also rejoices in a noble name. Hasan and Hoseyn are, it is well known, the " two lords of the youths of the people of Paradise, in Paradise " ; they were...
Página 71 - The perfection of God, the Desired, the Existing, the Single, the Supreme: the perfection of God, the One, the Sole: the perfection of Him who taketh unto himself no male or female partner.
Página 498 - Vendôme it would fill the whole square, and rise five times higher than the surrounding houses; or, if laid out between the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde, it would cover the entire length and breadth of the Champs Elysées, a distance equal to a mile and a quarter, and reach to the top of the trees on either side.
Página 245 - ... and through this field the river breaks in a hundred twisting passages and chutes, all apparently small, but the water in them is foaming and leaping and flashing white; and the air begins to be pervaded by the multitudinous roar of rapids.
Página 245 - The excited howadji are on deck feeling to their finger ends the thrill of expectancy. The first thing the Nubians Want is something to eat — a chronic complaint here in this land of romance. Squatting in circles all over the boat they dip their hands into the bowls of softened bread, cramming the food down their throats, and swallow all the coffee that can be made for them, with the gusto and appetite of simple men who have a stomach and no conscience. While the Nubians are chattering and eating,...
Página 54 - As we cannot content him by replying in like strain, " God enrich thee," we earn his blessing by a copper or two. Across the street is an opening into a nest of shops, gaily hung with embroideries from Constantinople, silks from Broussa and Beyrout, stuffs of Damascus; a Persian rug is spread on the mustubah of the shop, swords and inlaid pistols with flint locks shine amid the rich stuffs.