Travelling Sketches in Egypt and Sinai: Including a Visit to Mount Horeb, and Other Localities of the ExodusJ. W. Parker, 1839 - 308 pages |
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... living ruin in the midst of dead ruins . The poor old man , like the soldiers of Ulysses , had eaten of the lotus , which destroys the memory . For twenty years no sound of the world which had forgotten him had reached him , and he paid ...
... living ruin in the midst of dead ruins . The poor old man , like the soldiers of Ulysses , had eaten of the lotus , which destroys the memory . For twenty years no sound of the world which had forgotten him had reached him , and he paid ...
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... living beings . None of the signs , we observed , escaped the notice of our Arabs ; but in their unpassive and fixed eyes , or their impene- trable physiognomy , it was impossible to discover whether the symptoms were propitious or ...
... living beings . None of the signs , we observed , escaped the notice of our Arabs ; but in their unpassive and fixed eyes , or their impene- trable physiognomy , it was impossible to discover whether the symptoms were propitious or ...
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... living soul ; we enjoyed the luxury of beds for the first time since leaving Alexandria . Notwithstanding the superiority of our couches over divans and mattresses spread on the carpet , my nerves were so shattered by the horrid music ...
... living soul ; we enjoyed the luxury of beds for the first time since leaving Alexandria . Notwithstanding the superiority of our couches over divans and mattresses spread on the carpet , my nerves were so shattered by the horrid music ...
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... living instead of the city of the dead . Your glance falls on tortuous and jumbled streets through which a few Arabs stalk slowly and gravely , clothed in their magnificent m'sallah ( cloak ) , or some Turks ride on asses ; then there ...
... living instead of the city of the dead . Your glance falls on tortuous and jumbled streets through which a few Arabs stalk slowly and gravely , clothed in their magnificent m'sallah ( cloak ) , or some Turks ride on asses ; then there ...
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... living city , between Fostat and the tombs of the Khaliphs , its dead waters ; beyond the tombs of the Khaliphs , the sterile chain of Mokattan , which seems to bound the horizon with a wall of granite . I walked for a few minutes on ...
... living city , between Fostat and the tombs of the Khaliphs , its dead waters ; beyond the tombs of the Khaliphs , the sterile chain of Mokattan , which seems to bound the horizon with a wall of granite . I walked for a few minutes on ...
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Travelling Sketches in Egypt and Sinai: Including a Visit to Mount Horeb ... Alexandre Dumas No preview available - 2014 |
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Page 252 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Page 250 - Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat 51 thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 173 - Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will show to you to-day : for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Page 253 - And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken : for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
Page 252 - And Moses said unto the LORD, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people : and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Page 243 - And he said, Draw not nigh hither : put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face ; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Page 253 - And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock : and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts : but my face shall not be seen.
Page 181 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 256 - Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.
Page 253 - And He said, Thou canst not see My face: for there shall no man see Me, and live.