Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia, Հատոր 11827 |
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Aboukir according Ægyptus Alexandria ancient appears Arabian Arabs army banks beautiful Bubastis built called canal capital chamber Cheops Christian Clarke colour Coptic Copts covered cubits Damietta Delta desert distance Djizeh dynasty east eastern Egmont Egyptian Ency entrance erected feet Fostat French granite Greek height Heliopolis Henniker Herodotus hieroglyphics honour houses inches inhabitants inscription inundation Khalif king lake land Libyan Lower Egypt Malte Brun Mamlouks Manetho Memphis Menouf ment Metrop miles Mizraim Mohammed mosque mounds mountains mouth native nearly Nile Norden obelisk Old Cairo Pasha passage passed Pelusium pillars priests probably province Ptolemy pyramids reign remains remarks Richardson river rock Roman Rosetta round rubbish ruins Saladin Salt sand says sepulchral Serapis shew side soil Sphinx square stone Strabo sultan supposed Syria temple Thebes throne tion tombs town Travels Turks Upper Egypt valley village Volney walls
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Էջ 353 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue; In vain with cymbals...
Էջ 111 - ... artificial mount, raised one hundred steps above the level of the adjacent parts of the city; and the interior cavity was strongly supported by arches, and distributed into vaults and subterraneous apartments. The consecrated buildings were surrounded by a quadrangular portico; the stately halls and exquisite statues displayed the triumph of the arts; and the treasures of ancient learning were preserved in the famous Alexandrian library, which had arisen with new splendour from its...
Էջ 286 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man?
Էջ 111 - Bacchus 51 convinced the Pagans that he meditated a more important and dangerous enterprise. In the tumultuous capital of Egypt, the slightest provocation was sufficient to inflame a civil war. The votaries...
Էջ 318 - Thy form stupendous here the gods have placed, Sparing each spot of harvest-bearing land ; And with this mighty work of art have graced A rocky isle encumbered once with sand ; And near the pyramids have...
Էջ 28 - The air is so much rarified by the sun, during the time he remains almost stationary over the tropic of Capricorn, that the winds, loaded with vapours, rush in upon the land from the Atlantic Ocean on the west, the Indian Ocean on the east, and the cold Southern Ocean beyond the Cape. Thus a. great quantity of vapour is gathered, as it were, into a focus ; and as the same causes continue to operate during the progress of the sun northward, a vast train of clouds proceeds from south to north, which...
Էջ 185 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Էջ 113 - ... continued to preserve their accustomed order and tranquillity. The victorious soldier repeated his blows : the huge idol was overthrown, and broken in pieces ; and the limbs of Serapis were ignominiously dragged through the streets of Alexandria. His mangled carcase was burnt in the amphitheatre, amidst the shouts of the populace ; and many persons attributed their conversion to this discovery of the impotence of their tutelar deity.
Էջ 64 - upon opening the oldest history in the world, we find the Ishmaelites from Gilead, conducting a caravan loaded with the spices of India, the balsam and myrrh of Hadramaut, and in the regular course of their traffic proceeding to Egypt for a market. The date of this transaction is more than seventeen centuries before the Christian era, and notwithstanding its antiquity, it has all the genuine features of a caravan crossing the desert at the present hour
Էջ 318 - Sphinx, of tolerable workmanship, all of which, as well as the tablets, walls, and platform on which the little temple stood, were ornamented with red paint, a colour which would seem to have been here, as in India, appropriated to sacred purposes. In front of the temple was a granite altar, with one of the four ' horns' still retaining its place at the angle. From the effects of fire evident on the stone, this altar, it would seem, had been used for burnt-offerings. On the side of the paw of the...