Letters from the Old World, Nide 1Harper & Brothers, 1840 After a few years of studying the available literature on the cultures and continents she wanted to visit, Sarah Rogers Haight traveled through almost all of Europe and parts of Africa and Asia. She spent years in the cosmopolitan centers of foreign countries, mingling with the intelligentsia of each place. This two-volume description of her various journeys appeared anonymously in 1840.--Provided by The Library Company of Philadelphia. |
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... Israel.- How to make Straw Bricks . - Peculiarity of the Nile . - The way they do things in the East . - How to make a Canal . - Visit from a Bey . - Robbers of the Nile • . 155 CONTENTS . ix LETTER XV . The Voyage ended . viii CONTENTS .
... Israel.- How to make Straw Bricks . - Peculiarity of the Nile . - The way they do things in the East . - How to make a Canal . - Visit from a Bey . - Robbers of the Nile • . 155 CONTENTS . ix LETTER XV . The Voyage ended . viii CONTENTS .
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... thing , as it practically exists in European countries , as we are of the civil polity of the inhabitants of Timbuctoo . You may perhaps have heard how Odessa was for the first time visited by a dreadful plague , about the time of the ...
... thing , as it practically exists in European countries , as we are of the civil polity of the inhabitants of Timbuctoo . You may perhaps have heard how Odessa was for the first time visited by a dreadful plague , about the time of the ...
Sivu 19
... thing we saw was the captain of our steamer receiving certain stores from our side of the house , and ar- ranging the money matters in the following manner . He threw the money into a vessel containing vinegar ; then an officer emptied ...
... thing we saw was the captain of our steamer receiving certain stores from our side of the house , and ar- ranging the money matters in the following manner . He threw the money into a vessel containing vinegar ; then an officer emptied ...
Sivu 34
... things which in themselves are to me so new and as yet unstudied ; besides , it would be altogether superfluous to waste your valuable time in re- peating over , in my hurried and discursive manner , that which you can at any moment ...
... things which in themselves are to me so new and as yet unstudied ; besides , it would be altogether superfluous to waste your valuable time in re- peating over , in my hurried and discursive manner , that which you can at any moment ...
Sivu 37
... thing which is certain to require personal exertion , or in- duce the least mental or bodily fatigue , satisfied if he can but return home and say " Veni , vidi , " " Vincit " belonging not to the same category of his associations . The ...
... thing which is certain to require personal exertion , or in- duce the least mental or bodily fatigue , satisfied if he can but return home and say " Veni , vidi , " " Vincit " belonging not to the same category of his associations . The ...
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Alexandria anchor ancient appearance Arab arch arrived Asia beautiful boat Bosphorus Cairo camel canal capital captain caravan Carnac cavern chambers columns Constantinople consul court desert divan East Egypt Egyptian endeavour eyes feet gale gates gentlemen Golden Horn grand granite Greek ground hand head hills holy hundred immense land Land of Goshen LETTER Luxor magnificent Memnon Memnonium Memphis ment miles monuments morning mountain mummies Mustafa nations never night Nile Nubia obelisks Odessa once pacha palace passed perhaps Pharaoh plague plain port present priests propylon proud Ptolemies Pyramids quarantine river rock ruins Russia sacred sails Saracenic scene sculptured seated seen shore side Smyrna splendid spot Stamboul steamer stone sultan Syene Syria temple Thebaid Thebes thousand tion tomb travellers Turk Turkish Typhon valley vessel voyage walls whole wind
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Sivu 161 - And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Sivu 38 - Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine, Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppress'd with perfume, Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute...
Sivu 38 - Wax faint o'er the gardens of gul in her bloom, Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute , Where the tints of the earth , and the hues of the sky , In colour though varied, in beauty may vie, And the purple of Ocean is deepest in...
Sivu 217 - AND thou hast walked about (how strange a story!) In Thebes's streets three thousand years ago, When the Memnonium was in all its glory, And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles stupendous Of which the very ruins are tremendous.
Sivu 222 - So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
Sivu 307 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships ; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Sivu 140 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Sivu 201 - How the gods fled to Egypt's slimy soil, And hid their heads beneath the banks of Nile ; How Typhon from the conquer'd skies pursued Their routed godheads to the seven-mouth'd flood : Forced every god, his fury to escape, - . 501 Some beastly form to take, or earthly shape.
Sivu 222 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall : and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.