The Modern History and Condition of Egypt: Its Climate, Diseases, and Capabilities; Exhibited in a Personal Narrative of Travels in that Country: with an Account of the Proceedings of Mohammed Ali Pascha, from 1801-1843, Volume 2Smith, Elder and Company, 1843 - Egypt |
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Page 151 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left ; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Page 33 - And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Page 315 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent ; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear ; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Page 151 - For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Page 33 - For the seed shall be prosperous ; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew ; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
Page 308 - Both the great and the small shall die in this land : they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them...
Page 268 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 308 - And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the 268 Directions to Joshua. eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Page 485 - A parent's care, and fond inquietude ? While far she flies, her scatter'd eggs are found, Without an owner, on the sandy ground ; Cast out on fortune, they at mercy lie, And borrow life from an indulgent sky : Adopted by the Sun, in blaze of day, They ripen under his prolific ray.
Page 335 - a generous action: in so free and kind a manner did they contribute to " my relief, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught; and if hungry, " I ate the coarsest morsel with a double relish.