Cairo of To-day: A Practical Guide to Cairo and the NileAdam and Charles Black, 1905 - 264 pages |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Cairo of To-Day: A Practical Guide to Cairo and Its Environs Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball Aucun aperçu disponible - 2016 |
Cairo of To-Day: A Practical Guide to Cairo and the Nile Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball Aucun aperçu disponible - 2018 |
Cairo of To-Day: A Practical Guide to Cairo and the Nile - Primary Source ... Eustace Alfred Reynolds-Ball Aucun aperçu disponible - 2014 |
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Abou Abou Simbel Abydos Alexandria ancient antiquities Arabic architecture Assiout Assouan Barkuk Barrage Baths bazaars Brindisi building built Cairene Caliphs Canal Cataract Church Citadel Cook Cook's Coptic dahabeah Dahshur Dervishes desert donkey dragoman dynasty Egypt Exploration Fund Egyptian English Esbekiyeh European excavations excursion Exploration EXPRESS famous fare to Port feet First-class Friday Ghezireh Palace Ghizeh Government Grand guides health resort Heliopolis Helouan hour interest Ismailia Karnak Kasr-en-Nil Khartoum Khedive king leaving Cairo London Luxor Luxor Hotel mail steamers Mameluke Marseilles Mehemet Memphis Mena House Messrs miles modern monuments Mooski mosque Mummy Museum Naples native Nile Office Old Cairo oriental passengers Philæ piastres picturesque Pyramids railway Rameses Rameses II Royal ruins Sakkarah sanitary Savoy season Sharia Shepheard's Hotel Soudan Sphinx Station steamer leaves Sultan Temple Theban Thebes Thursday Tombs tourist steamers train traveller Upper Egypt usually visitors voyage Wady Halfa walls Winter Resort
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Page 247 - is what it professes to be, a collection of some of Our Lord's sayings. "These, judging from their archaic tone and framework, were put together not later than the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, and it is quite possible that they embody a tradition independent of those which have taken shape in our canonical Gospels.
Page 227 - of proper means for the maintenance of the Khedive's authority will admit of it. In the meantime, the position in which Her Majesty's Government are placed towards His Highness imposes upon them the duty of giving advice with the object of securing that
Page 124 - forgotten—forgotten because that Greece drew forth Cytherea from the flashing foam of the .ZEgean, and in her image created new forms of beauty, and made it a law among men that the short and
Page 227 - order of things to be established shall be of a satisfactory character, and possess the elements of stability and progress.
Page 3 - Passengers taking Return Tickets from Liverpool have the option of returning by any of the Bibby Line Steamers, or overland through Paris to London, first class, similarly, passengers may proceed to Marseilles from London by rail, and return by sea.
Page 219 - sun's rim dips, the stars rush out; at one stride comes the dark,
Page 85 - Bey. He spurred his charger over a heap of his slaughtered comrades, and sprang upon the battlements. It was a dizzy height, but the next moment he was in the air— another, and he was disengaging himself from his crushed and dying horse amid a shower of bullets. He escaped, and found safety in the sanctuary of a mosque, and ultimately in the deserts of the Thebaid.
Page 91 - and some other styles ; but as a perfect model of the elegance we generally associate with the architecture of this people, it is, perhaps, unrivalled by anything in Egypt, and far surpasses the Alhambra, or the western buildings of its age.
Page 230 - The British troops have, of course, no sort of status in the country. They are not the soldiers of the Khedive, or foreign soldiers invited by the Khedive, They are not the soldiers of the protecting power, since there is in theory no protecting power.
Page 117 - notwithstanding the immense superincumbent weight, no settlement in any part can be detected to an appreciable fraction of an inch.