A Diary of a Journey to the East: In the Autumn of 1854, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856 - Egypt |
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Abbas Pasha Aboukier afterwards Alexandria ancient appearance Arab arches Armenian beautiful Beit Jala building cadi called camel Christian church colour consul convent Copts cross Damietta dark desert dome dragoman dress east Egypt England English entered fable feet friends gate Greek hand head heard heaven Hebron hill holy horses hour inhabitants Jaffa Jaffa gate Jerusalem Jews Judea land light looked Lord Lydda Mahomet Mahometan marble miles minaret morning Moslem mosque Mount Mount of Olives mountains muezzin native neighbourhood neighbouring night Nubia olive once palace pasha passed passengers patriarch pilgrims pool prayers quarantine Ramleh resembled ride road rock rode Roman round ruins sailing seemed seen sheik ship shore side sight Solomon stone stood streets tarbouche temple to-day tomb traveller trees turban Turkish valley valley of Hinnom vessel village visited walked walls
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Page 114 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 90 - Let me have men about me that are fat ; Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; He thinks too much : such men are dangerous.
Page 256 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 217 - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them : for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege...
Page 201 - This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.
Page 232 - Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you : for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goetb. 36 While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light.
Page 212 - And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works that they had seen; 38 Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord : Peace in heaven, and, glory in the highest.
Page 191 - Was it for this she stretch'd her peopled reign From far Euphrates to the western main ? For this, o'er many a hill her boughs she threw, And her wide arms like goodly cedars grew ? For this, proud Edom slept beneath her shade, And o'er th...
Page 97 - It seems," said one of the bearers, " that the sheykh is determined not to be buried in the cemetery of Bib en-Nasr ; and what shall we do ? " They were all much perplexed ; but being as obstinate as the saint himself, they did not immediately yield to his caprice. Retreating a few paces, and then advancing with a quick step, they thought, by such an impetus, to force the corpse through the gate-way ; but their efforts were unsuccessful ; and the same experiment they repeated in vain several times....
Page 218 - The more they be beaten the better they be," must be enlarged to include the olive tree here. * * But the beating does not improve the tree, and it was on this account that the gleaners were not to beat, but to shake it. (-Compare Deut. xxiv- 20., and Isaiah xvii. 6. and xxiv. 13). In the koran the Creator is said to swear by " the fig and the olive," which Mahometan doctors explain to mean Damascus and Jerusalem.