Narrative of a Voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and Along the Shores of the Mediterranean: Including a Visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With Observations on the Present State and Prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the Climate, Natural History and Antiquities of the Countries VisitedW. Curry, jun., 1844 - 648 pages |
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... heights , whence so destruc- tive a fire was poured down upon our gallant countrymen , and the tomb of their renowned leader crowns one of the bastions beside After waiting for some hours , the health and excise officers arrived . These ...
... heights , whence so destruc- tive a fire was poured down upon our gallant countrymen , and the tomb of their renowned leader crowns one of the bastions beside After waiting for some hours , the health and excise officers arrived . These ...
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... he obtained the name from building the tower , is a question not necessary to inquire into , but the fact of such a tower still existing in this spot , and there being the same tradition ITS CONNECTION WITH IRELAND . 11 The height of this.
... he obtained the name from building the tower , is a question not necessary to inquire into , but the fact of such a tower still existing in this spot , and there being the same tradition ITS CONNECTION WITH IRELAND . 11 The height of this.
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... height of this tower is about 139 English feet ; the archi- tecture bespeaks it of no older period than that of the Romans , and tends to support the view taken of it by Humboldt and Laborde already referred to . The inclined marks on ...
... height of this tower is about 139 English feet ; the archi- tecture bespeaks it of no older period than that of the Romans , and tends to support the view taken of it by Humboldt and Laborde already referred to . The inclined marks on ...
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... heights . On the former of these was posted the British line ; * its right resting upon one of the by - roads leading to Elvina , and its extreme left stretching downwards to the great Madrid road ; while , on the heights above , and ...
... heights . On the former of these was posted the British line ; * its right resting upon one of the by - roads leading to Elvina , and its extreme left stretching downwards to the great Madrid road ; while , on the heights above , and ...
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... heights occupied by the enemy's lines ; and certainly it was a position of extraordinary strength and advantage , commanding a view of not only the whole extent towards the town , but of the inland country to a great distance . And here ...
... heights occupied by the enemy's lines ; and certainly it was a position of extraordinary strength and advantage , commanding a view of not only the whole extent towards the town , but of the inland country to a great distance . And here ...
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afford Alexandria Algiers ancient animals antiquity appearance Arabs arches Asia Minor basalt Básha beautiful Bedawees beneath Cairo called centre chamber Christian Cleopatra's needles climate coast colour Corunna covered distance Egypt Egyptian English entrance erected feet French Funchal gate Gibraltar Greek Guanches harbour head height Herodotus hills Holy horses houses inhabitants island Jerusalem Jews Josephus Kabyles Kastelorizo land light look Madeira marble miles modern Mohammad Alee Mohammadan Mooslim morning mosque Mount Mount Sion mountains natives night ornamented passed peculiar persons pillars plain Pompey's pillar present probably purple pyramids remains remarkable residence rise rock roof round ruins sand scene seen sepulchre shore side similar Sion Sooltan specimens spot square stones supposed surrounded Syria Telmessus temple Teneriffe tion tombs tower town traveller Turkish Turks Tyre valley vessels wall whole wind
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Page 442 - Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Page 503 - Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see them to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Page 351 - Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold...
Page 296 - And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates ; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Page 361 - Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon ; and my servants shall be with thy servants : and...
Page 633 - And this is the offering which ye shall take of them ; gold, and silver, and brass, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats
Page 103 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 180 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 353 - The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, And to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Page 637 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.