Egypt in 1898W. Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 283 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 20
Página 93
... cheap ; not too good , but just good enough for their purpose . Perhaps it ought to want the very best only it doesn't . Second , if Egypt is Eastern in its require- ments , it is Western - while England is here -in its integrity . As ...
... cheap ; not too good , but just good enough for their purpose . Perhaps it ought to want the very best only it doesn't . Second , if Egypt is Eastern in its require- ments , it is Western - while England is here -in its integrity . As ...
Página 164
... cheap . So that it seems likely that the advance will go slow for the present , creeping forward with the railway , and waiting till it is met by the rising Nile . But quick or slow , it ought to be finished this year , that Egypt may ...
... cheap . So that it seems likely that the advance will go slow for the present , creeping forward with the railway , and waiting till it is met by the rising Nile . But quick or slow , it ought to be finished this year , that Egypt may ...
Página 170
... year ; then he buys wood to make doors and win- dows for his honse , he buys a cheap French bedstead instead of his mud - bank , and smokes THE VILLAGE USURER . 171 more cigarettes than before . 170 THE SUDAN AND THE FELLAH .
... year ; then he buys wood to make doors and win- dows for his honse , he buys a cheap French bedstead instead of his mud - bank , and smokes THE VILLAGE USURER . 171 more cigarettes than before . 170 THE SUDAN AND THE FELLAH .
Página 181
... its harbour and public buildings , partly because there is no land anywhere near Port Said on which it can grow its daily beef and potatoes . So Alexandria is quite confident of its future . - Add to this that it is the cheapest port in.
... its harbour and public buildings , partly because there is no land anywhere near Port Said on which it can grow its daily beef and potatoes . So Alexandria is quite confident of its future . - Add to this that it is the cheapest port in.
Página 203
... cheap , with sweat and swear- ing - but all done . The material is Egypt , and the triumph over it is Britain : British Egypt is the picturesque incredible com- bination of the two . 204 XVIII . THE PILGRIMS . THE DRAGOMAN ADDRESSES THE.
... cheap , with sweat and swear- ing - but all done . The material is Egypt , and the triumph over it is Britain : British Egypt is the picturesque incredible com- bination of the two . 204 XVIII . THE PILGRIMS . THE DRAGOMAN ADDRESSES THE.
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
Alexandria ancient Arab Assouan Author backsheesh Barrage Blackwood and Sons blue British brown Cairo Caisse camels Canal Cheap Cheaper Edition Church Church of Scotland civilisation cloth coal colour Cook Crown 8vo dahabeah Demy 8vo desert donkeys dragoman East Editor Edward Bruce Hamley Egypt Egyptian England English Englishman Engravings Essays eyes fantasia Fcap fellah France French French morocco gilt Government Greek half History hour JOHN Khedive Lady land Lectures LL.D look Lord Cromer Luxor Maps Memoir miles monastery mosque native never Nile numerous Illustrations OLIPHANT Pasha Philosophy Poems Port Portrait Post 8vo Professor of Logic Pyramids railway Revised and Enlarged river round Royal sand Scotland Second Edition ships side St Andrews steamer street Sudan Suez tarbush thing Third Edition tion to-day tomb University of Edinburgh vols Wady Halfa walked William Blackwood wonder
Passagens conhecidas
Página 23 - A Manual of Palaeontology, for the use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology.
Página 22 - Cessios, and Sequestrations; and the Winding-up of Joint-Stock Companies in Scotland : with Annotations on the various Insolvency and Bankruptcy Statutes ; and with Forms of Procedure applicable to these Subjects. By JAMES MURDOCH, Member of the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow. Fifth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8vo, 12s.
Página 7 - Second Edition. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 7s. 6d. Cultivated Plants : Their Propagation and Improvement. Including Natural and Artificial Hybridisation, Raising from Seed, Cuttings, and Layers, Grafting and Budding, as applied to the Families and Genera in Cultivation. Crown 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 12s. 6d. BURTON. The History of Scotland : From Agricola's Invasion to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection.
Página 25 - Foster and others, fcap., gilt cloth, 3s. 6d., or with edges gilt, 4s. PORT ROYAL LOGIC. Translated from the French ; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix.
Página 30 - Propagation, Culture, and Arrangement of Plants in FlowerGardens all the year round. With Engraved Plans. By DAVID THOMSON, Gardener to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K..T.
Página 14 - Crown 8vo, 2s. 6d. Our Poor Relations. A Philozoic Essay. With Illustrations, chiefly by Ernest Griset. Crown 8vo, cloth gilt, 3s.
Página 25 - Journal,' &c. Crown 8vo, 7s. 6d. PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES AFFECTING SCOTLAND from 1707 to 1847, with Chronological Table and Index. 3 vols. large 8vo, ^3, 3s.
Página 32 - Christopher in his Sporting-Jacket. 2 vols., 8s. Isle of Palms, City of the Plague, and other Poems. 4s. Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, and other Tales. 4s. Essays, Critical and Imaginative. 4 vols., 16s. The Noctes Ambrosianse. 4 vols., 16s. Homer and his Translators, and the Greek Drama. Crown 8vo, 4s.
Página 25 - Classics for English Readers. Edited by WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews. In crown 8vo volumes, with portraits, price 3s. 6d.
Página 9 - COCHRAN. A Handy Text-Book of Military Law. Compiled chiefly to assist Officers preparing for Examination ; also for all Officers of the Regular and Auxiliary Forces.