Around the Pyramids: Being a Tour in the Holy Land, And, Incidentally, Through Several European Countries, and Portions of Africa, During the Years 1859-60Carleton, 1865 - 309 páginas |
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... scene Onward it it comes , marching solemnly and stately over the swell- ing waves : anon it pauses in its onward course , its alabaster towers and peaks tremble and vibrate for a moment ere they break apart , and with a roar and crash ...
... scene Onward it it comes , marching solemnly and stately over the swell- ing waves : anon it pauses in its onward course , its alabaster towers and peaks tremble and vibrate for a moment ere they break apart , and with a roar and crash ...
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... scenes of festivity were here exhibited exceeding anything of the kind that had ever before taken place . It was used as the re- sidence of the several royal families from that period to the reign of George the Third . Queen Victoria ...
... scenes of festivity were here exhibited exceeding anything of the kind that had ever before taken place . It was used as the re- sidence of the several royal families from that period to the reign of George the Third . Queen Victoria ...
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... scene was one of such magnitude that it would have defied the skill of the most noted artist to have given a correct picture of it . On the last day of the races we left the course some time before sundown , for London . We found the ...
... scene was one of such magnitude that it would have defied the skill of the most noted artist to have given a correct picture of it . On the last day of the races we left the course some time before sundown , for London . We found the ...
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... scene . It was the first time I had seen the ocean in its angry mood . The aspect of the sea pre- sented one sheet of white foam ; the waters were thrown and dashed about in every direction by the violence of the winds . At times , the ...
... scene . It was the first time I had seen the ocean in its angry mood . The aspect of the sea pre- sented one sheet of white foam ; the waters were thrown and dashed about in every direction by the violence of the winds . At times , the ...
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... scenes of great victories and defeats , and none more remarkable than that of Waterloo . The Belgians , according to the testimony of Cæsar , were the most valiant of the Germans , and particu- larly that portion which resided on the ...
... scenes of great victories and defeats , and none more remarkable than that of Waterloo . The Belgians , according to the testimony of Cæsar , were the most valiant of the Germans , and particu- larly that portion which resided on the ...
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acres Alexandria ancient city Arabian horses army beautiful Beirout Bruges building built called celebrated centuries CHAPTER Christians church coast columns commerce Constantinople distance distinguished dragoman east edifices Egypt erected Esdraelon extended feet in height fifty gate Ghent Greeks ground harbor hill Holy Land horses hundred feet inhabitants interest island Jerusalem Jews Joppa Jordan Josephus journey King ladies Latakia London Lord magnificent Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea ment miles mosques Mount Mount of Olives Mount Tabor mountains night numerous palace Palestine passed period plain present pyramids remains remarkable residence rise river road rock route ruins sacred sailed Saladin Samaria Saviour scene sea-shore seen Shechem shore side Sidon situated spot standing steamer stone streets summit surrounding Syria tain temple thousand Tiberias tion tomb tourist towers town travellers Tyre upwards valley vessels voyage walls width wind
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Página 147 - The impotent man answered him, 'Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.' "Jesus saith unto him, 'Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Página 191 - While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them : and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, • nils is my beloved SON, In whom I am well pleased ; hear •ye him.
Página 166 - And when He thus had spoken, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes : and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Página 147 - Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the Sabbath.
Página 263 - Her soldier, closing with the foe, Gives for thy sake a deadlier blow; His plighted maiden, when she fears For him, the Joy of her young years, Thinks of thy fate and checks her tears. And she, the mother of thy boys. Though in her eye and faded cheek Is read the grief she will not speak, The memory of her buried Joys, And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth Talk of thy doom without a sigh: For thou art freedom's now and fame's, One of the few, the immortal names, That...
Página 263 - She wore no funeral weeds for thee, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume, Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry. The heartless luxury of the tomb. But she remembers thee as one Long loved, and for a season gone. For thee her poet's lyre is wreathed, Her marble wrought, her music breathed; For thee she rings the birthday bells; Of thee her babes' first lisping tells; For thine her evening prayer is said At palace couch and cottage bed.
Página 207 - Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape." And they took them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there.
Página 178 - And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
Página 170 - And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave : that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Página 69 - Fair city, worthy of her ancient fame ! The season of her splendour is gone by, Yet everywhere its monuments remain : Temples which rear their stately heads on high, Canals that intersect the fertile plain — "Wide streets and squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and undefaced — but ancient all. "When I may read of tilts in days of old, Of...