Egypt in 1898

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Dodd, Mead, 1898 - 283 páginas

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Página 62 - The nominal suzerain of Egypt is the Sultan; its real suzerain is Lord Cromer. Its nominal Governor is the Khedive; its real governor, for a final touch of comic opera, is Thomas Cook & Son.
Página 110 - ... he [the teacher] put them [the students] through a searching examination on the shifting meanings which certain puzzling words assumed in different contexts, and extracted from them all manner of irregular plurals, perfects, and past participles.47 Again Steevens remarked: He [the Egyptian student] is astonishingly industrious; the difficulty is not to make him work, but to prevent him from overworking: eight hours' home work, after five and a half in school, is by no means an unknown performance....
Página 62 - Son. Cook's representative is the first person you meet in Egypt, and you go on meeting him. He sees you in ; he sees you through ; he sees you out. You see the back of a native— turban, long blue gown, red girdle, bare brown legs. ' How truly Oriental,' you say. Then he turns round, and you see * Cook's Porter,' emblazoned across his breast. ' You travel Cook, sir,' he grins ;
Página 205 - Now the solitary palms thicken into groves with a dump or two of denser acacias: here is a village. Mud huts pierced by loop-hole windows, rush firewood stacked on the roofs, black veils carrying water, young boys, half blue shirt, half brown nakedness, paddling in the river. Rural Egypt at Kodak range and you silting in a long chair to look at it...
Página 10 - But they finish off the picture of the empirebuilders and the Imperial highway. They are a specimen of the raw material. Their very ugliness and stupidity furnish just the point. It is because there are people like this in the world that there is an Imperial Britain. This sort of creature has to be ruled, so we rule him, for his good and our own.
Página 99 - Ibid., p. 213. rollment. In 1898, Steevens wrote: "First we went into the primary school. There were not many pupils, because the fees in this school are high — as much as £12 and £15 a year for day boys." 3T In secondary schools things were worse. White noted: "Few boys survive the Secondary course. They enter at the age of fourteen, or under; and drop off steadily year by year: because parents get weary of paying fees.
Página 2 - It was their business, and they were doing it. Duty has got to be done in the proper place, at the proper time, in spite of all things. Just as at the proper time and in spite of all things — a standing rebuke to the kingdom of Italy, where it alone is certain and punctual — the Imperial Express clanked into Brindisi.
Página 262 - It is not only the vast amount of money he brings into the country, nor the vast number of people he directly employs. Besides that, you will find natives all up the Nile who practically live on him. Those donkeys are subsidised by Cook ; that little plot of lettuce is being grown for Cook, and so are the fowls ; those boats tied up on the bank were built by the sheikh of the Cataracts for the tourist service with money advanced by Cook.
Página 204 - ... that you are not in it. A vision of half-barbarous life passes before you all day, and you survey it in the intervals of French cooking. You are not to worry, not to plan, not to arrange about anything; you are just to sit easy and be happy...

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