A Handbook for Travellers in Egypt: Including Descriptions of the Course of the Nile Through Egypt and Nubia, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids and Thebes, the Suez Canal, the Peninsula of Mount Sinai, the Oases, the Fyoom, EtcJ. Murray, 1875 - 505 pàgines |
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Pàgina 86 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Pàgina 85 - Perhaps the church and seat of the patriarchs might be enriched with a repository of books ; but if the ponderous mass of Arian and Monophysite controversy were indeed consumed in the public baths, a philosopher may allow, with a smile, that it was ultimately devoted to the benefit of mankind.
Pàgina 213 - CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Pàgina 102 - THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form. The flames...
Pàgina 405 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land : for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Pàgina 145 - I have given bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and a shelter to the stranger.
Pàgina 370 - John had con- \ structed with his own hand a humble ' cell, in which he had dwelt above 50 years, without opening his door, without seeing the face of a woman, and without tasting any food that had been prepared by fire or any human art. Five days of the week he spent in prayer and meditation, but on Saturdays and Sundays he regularly opened a small window, and gave audience to the crowd of suppliants who successively flowed from every part of the Christian world. The eunuch of Theodosius approached...
Pàgina 219 - Mercury (Hermes), but the remains of that of Pasht are rather more extensive, and show that it measured about 500 feet in length. We may readily credit the assertion of Herodotus respecting its beauty, since the whole was of the finest red granite...
Pàgina 412 - Four others follow ; then six of the sons of the king, behind whom are two scribes and eight attendants of the military class, bearing stools and the steps of the throne. ' In another line are members of the sacerdotal order, four other of the king's sons, fan-bearers, and military scribes ; a guard of soldiers bringing up the rear of the procession. Before the shrine, in one line, march six officers bearing sceptres and other insignia ; in another, a scribe reads aloud the contents of a scroll he...
Pàgina 196 - Comely the creature is, but the comeliness is not of this world : the once worshipped beast is a deformity and a monster to this generation ; and yet you can see that those lips, so thick and heavy, were fashioned according to some ancient mould of...