Travels to discover the source of the NileBallantyne, 1804 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 100
עמוד 3
... carry them down , so went away with great good will , happy in the acquisition of the brandy , declaring he would carry sail as long as the wind held . We passed Mollé , a small village , with a great number of acacia trees , intermixed ...
... carry them down , so went away with great good will , happy in the acquisition of the brandy , declaring he would carry sail as long as the wind held . We passed Mollé , a small village , with a great number of acacia trees , intermixed ...
עמוד 13
... carry me to the ruins . * Dendera is a considerable town at this day , all covered with thick groves of palm - trees , the same that Juvenal describes it to have been in his time . Juvenal himself must have seen it , at least once , in ...
... carry me to the ruins . * Dendera is a considerable town at this day , all covered with thick groves of palm - trees , the same that Juvenal describes it to have been in his time . Juvenal himself must have seen it , at least once , in ...
עמוד 14
... carry off the water are monstrous heads of sphinxes ; the globes with wings , and the two serpents , with a kind of shield or breastplate between them , are here fre- quently repeated , such as we see them on the Cartha- ginian medals ...
... carry off the water are monstrous heads of sphinxes ; the globes with wings , and the two serpents , with a kind of shield or breastplate between them , are here fre- quently repeated , such as we see them on the Cartha- ginian medals ...
עמוד 20
... answer , " Yes , it is the fool's way to Girgé . " We carried him about a mile , or more , up the ri- ver ; then , a convenient landing - place offering , I ask- ed him , whether he had got my money , 20 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
... answer , " Yes , it is the fool's way to Girgé . " We carried him about a mile , or more , up the ri- ver ; then , a convenient landing - place offering , I ask- ed him , whether he had got my money , 20 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
עמוד 27
... carry us farther very easy . He now a- greed for 41. to carry us to Syene and down again ; but , if he behaved well , he expected a trifling premi- The dates in this part of the journey are a good deal confus ed by the author's having ...
... carry us farther very easy . He now a- greed for 41. to carry us to Syene and down again ; but , if he behaved well , he expected a trifling premi- The dates in this part of the journey are a good deal confus ed by the author's having ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Ababdé Abreha Abyssinia Agow Alexandria Amharic anchor ancient Arabia Arabia Felix Arabian Gulf Arabs Axum Azab boat Cairo called camels Cape carried chap Christian coast Coptic Cosseir Cush Cushites Dahalac desert distant east Egypt Egyptian Ethiopia Ethiopic four Frumentius Geez gold Greek hand harp Hassan Hebrew hieroglyphics India Indian Ocean inhabitants island janissaries Jews Jibbel Jidda king Koreish land language leagues likewise Loheia Mahomet Masuah Mecca Meroë miles Mocha monsoon Moses mountains nations night Nile o'clock observed Osiris passed port priests prince probably Ptolemy Rais Red Sea reign religion river rocks Saba sailed sand says Scripture seems servant Sesostris Shekh Shepherds shew ships Shishak shore side signifies Sofala Solomon stone Strabo suppose Syene temple Thebaid Thebes tion told town trade tribes Turks vessel voyage wind word Yambo Yemen
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 40 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, "See, this is new?" it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
עמוד 317 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
עמוד 364 - Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters : the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
עמוד 347 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
עמוד 346 - And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet ; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
עמוד 396 - The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon ; aud, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
עמוד 453 - In the end of the twelfth, or beginning of the thirteenth century...
עמוד 76 - Even thfe birds seem to avoid the place as pestilential, not having seen one of any kind so much as flying over. The sun was burning hot, and, upon rubbing two sticks together, in half a minute they both took fire, and flamed ; a mark how near the country was reduced to a general conflagration ! At half past three, we pitched our tent near some draw-wells, which, upon tasting, we found bitterer than soot.
עמוד 136 - ... up the sea as a wall on the right, or to the south, of fifty feet high; still the difficulty would remain of building the wall on the left hand, or to the north. Besides, water standing in that position for a day must have lost the nature of fluid. Whence came that cohesion of particles which hindered that wall to escape at the sides ? This is as great a miracle as that of Moses.
עמוד 397 - AND when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. 2 And Solomon told her all her questions...