From Pharaoh to FellahWells Gardner, Darton, 1888 - 187 páginas |
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... become a British possession à peu près ; and , thirdly - excuse the brutal frankness , -because it's the only subject on which you know anything . Egypt ! the dream of my life ! I would give my head to come too ! " " You would like to ...
... become a British possession à peu près ; and , thirdly - excuse the brutal frankness , -because it's the only subject on which you know anything . Egypt ! the dream of my life ! I would give my head to come too ! " " You would like to ...
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... becomes at the second crop Egyptian wheat and Egyptian cotton , taking its nature from the soil , so the human seed - mixed though it has been with Ethiopian , Assyrian , Persian , Greek , Roman , Arab , the race Egyptian has always re ...
... becomes at the second crop Egyptian wheat and Egyptian cotton , taking its nature from the soil , so the human seed - mixed though it has been with Ethiopian , Assyrian , Persian , Greek , Roman , Arab , the race Egyptian has always re ...
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... becoming over the region covered by his capacious white waistcoat . The mingled dignity and help- lessness of his demeanour recalled irresistibly the Turtle of Wonderland ; and the two fresh - looking daughters who were with him fitted ...
... becoming over the region covered by his capacious white waistcoat . The mingled dignity and help- lessness of his demeanour recalled irresistibly the Turtle of Wonderland ; and the two fresh - looking daughters who were with him fitted ...
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... becoming a person of authority , summed up the debate with cynical impartiality . " As for the origin of the whole matter ... become of vital importance to the mistress of India . Did he believe all he said about the certain failure of ...
... becoming a person of authority , summed up the debate with cynical impartiality . " As for the origin of the whole matter ... become of vital importance to the mistress of India . Did he believe all he said about the certain failure of ...
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... with these environments , and become a practical travelling companion ; but I will not ask impossibilities . I will do my best , and to - morrow shall see me a changed character . " CHAPTER II . Alexandria - A well - meant effort.
... with these environments , and become a practical travelling companion ; but I will not ask impossibilities . I will do my best , and to - morrow shall see me a changed character . " CHAPTER II . Alexandria - A well - meant effort.
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Términos y frases comunes
Abydos admit Alexandria Arab Arabi asked Assouan Asyoot banks bazaar beauty Boolak build Cairo Canal capital Church Citadel Cleopatra conqueror Copt course Credit Foncier Crichton cultivation dahabeeyah descendants desert dynasty Egyptian Egyptian history English European father Fayoum Fellah Fellaheen Fostat Ghizeh Girgeh give Government Greek Hyksos idea Ismail Joseph Jussef Karnac Khafra Khan Khalili king kourbash land of Egypt land of Goshen later look Luxor Memphis MONTBARD mosque Mudir Mummy myth Nabob native never Nile Osiris party Pasha pass perhaps period Pharaoh Prince probably Ptolemy Pyramids railway Ramses Ramses II recognise river Sakkarah Saladin Sara Scribbler seems Sekenen Ra Seti Sheik el Beled Shepheard's sight Sketcher Sphinx stands statue steamer Sultan Hassan taxation taxes tell temple Thebes thou to-day tomb town Turk Turtle Tutmes Wady Halfa youth
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Página 164 - Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Página 159 - And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee : the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell : and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Página 151 - IT flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream, And times and things, as in that vision, seem Keeping along it their eternal stands, — Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands That roamed through the young...
Página 165 - Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Página 149 - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed : And on the pedestal these words appear : 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair !
Página 164 - Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise; thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion. Who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Página 164 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs: and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Página 159 - Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Página 52 - The Sphinx is drowsy, Her wings are furled: Her ear is heavy, She broods on the world. "Who'll tell me my secret, The ages have kept? — I awaited the seer While they slumbered and slept: "The fate of the man-child, The meaning of man; Known fruit of the unknown; Daedalian plan; Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep; Life death overtaking; Deep underneath deep?
Página 164 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships ; and his border shall be unto Zidon.