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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Page 23
... persons found conveying the mail of her majesty the Queen of Spain should be shot . The government courier proceeding from Corunna to Madrid , soon after this notice , was murdered , the bags cut open , and the letters destroyed , it ...
... persons found conveying the mail of her majesty the Queen of Spain should be shot . The government courier proceeding from Corunna to Madrid , soon after this notice , was murdered , the bags cut open , and the letters destroyed , it ...
Page 48
... of such a large body of men , who had no trade , and are prohibited from following their profession ? It is not to be ex- pected that persons like these , reared in luxury , and living on the COLLARES . 99 49 bucks of Mafra and the wines.
... of such a large body of men , who had no trade , and are prohibited from following their profession ? It is not to be ex- pected that persons like these , reared in luxury , and living on the COLLARES . 99 49 bucks of Mafra and the wines.
Page 76
... persons taking furnished houses in the island . One English servant will be sufficient ; and when ladies go , I would always recommend a female one , for I have invariably found that invalids suffer much more in foreign countries from ...
... persons taking furnished houses in the island . One English servant will be sufficient ; and when ladies go , I would always recommend a female one , for I have invariably found that invalids suffer much more in foreign countries from ...
Page 79
... persons prefer them to the steamers ; the passage is about twelve days on the average ; the expense about £ 20 . Besides these , there are always small Portuguese vessels trading to Lisbon and Gibraltar . Again , a steamer leaves ...
... persons prefer them to the steamers ; the passage is about twelve days on the average ; the expense about £ 20 . Besides these , there are always small Portuguese vessels trading to Lisbon and Gibraltar . Again , a steamer leaves ...
Page 97
... persons in authority , civil , military , and marine . This raises his own consequence not a little , and , to believe himself , vastly contributes to the honour of old England . The town of Santa Cruz is clean , that part near the ...
... persons in authority , civil , military , and marine . This raises his own consequence not a little , and , to believe himself , vastly contributes to the honour of old England . The town of Santa Cruz is clean , that part near the ...
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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.