Letters from the East: Written During a Recent Tour Through Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, the Holy Land, Syria, and Greece, כרך 1H. Colburn, 1826 |
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Alexandria amidst amusing apartment appearance Arabs Armenian arrived beautiful beneath boat Bosphorus camels chief Circassian coffee coffee-house colour Constantinople convent Coptos covered Damascus Damietta Dardanelles delightful dervishes desert distance dressed Egyptian entered European exquisite eyes feet Galata gardens GRAND CAIRO Greek hand handsome hill isle janizaries jerrid lady land light lofty looked Luxor luxury Mahmoud Mamelukes merchants miles minarets monks morning mosque Mount mountains mournful naked night Nile Oriental Pacha palace passed pillars pipe plain portico Prophet Pyramids residence rich rock round ruins sand Santon scene scenery Sciotes seated seraglio shade sherbet shore side Sinai singular situation Smyrna soldiers soon sounds of music splendid spot stood streets Suleimanieh summit temple tent tion tomb took town traveller trees turban Turkish Turks Upper Egypt valley verdure vessel village walk walls water's edge wild women young
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עמוד 332 - spot ; the bottom covered with olive-trees. Its present appearance answers exactly to the description given in Scripture; the two hills on which the armies stood, entirely confining it on the right and left. The valley is not above half a mile broad. Tradition was not required to identify this spot; Nature has stamped it with
עמוד 339 - suspicion. Yet it is an interesting sight to meet with a Jew wandering with his staff in his hand, and a venerable beard sweeping his bosom, in the rich and silent plain of Jericho, on the sides of his native mountains, or on the banks of the ancient river Kishon, where the arm of the
עמוד 211 - a little valley at the bottom, that was to be our resting-place for the night. The mountains rose around this valley in vast precipices—a line of beautiful verdure ran along its whole extent, in the midst of which stood a deserted monastery. The fathers had long been driven from it by the Arabs; but its
עמוד 325 - of the holy sepulchre. It is certainly more picturesque, but why more just, is hard to conceive ; since the words of Scripture do not allow the identity of the sacred tomb to any particular spot, and tradition on so memorable an occasion could hardly err. The Fathers declare,
עמוד 84 - -There is but one God —God alone is great and eternal, and Mohammed is his Prophet,"—like the voice of an undying being calling from the upper air. The Nile is, in general, a calm and beautiful river, about a quarter or half a mile wide, frequently less, but during the inundation it often
עמוד 322 - it is not often a footstep passes by, that night of sorrow and dismay rushes on the imagination, when the Redeemer was betrayed, and forsaken by all, even by the loved disciple.—Hence the path winds up the Mount of Olives: it
עמוד 336 - of a large size, from the defiles and rocks amidst which it is carried ; the circuitous routes by land from Tyre or Acre were probably used. The Turk who is chief of the guard that keeps watch at the entrance of the sacred church, waited on us two or three times; he is a very fine and
עמוד 97 - on the floor, so soundly as to hear nothing of a loud and desperate quarrel between some Arabs and Albanians in the same tent; but there was little cause for uneasiness in any situation, while my faithful Michelle was near; he knew so well the manners of these people, and possessed such
עמוד 153 - A man who has never toiled through long and burning deserts can have little idea of the rapture with which a group of trees, or a bright spot of verdure, is hailed; or of the deep luxury of feeling excited by again moving among cottages, and fountains, and cool retreats. The
עמוד 71 - from the land. The wife of one of them, a young woman of uncommon loveliness, seeing her husband departing, stood on the shore, stretching out her hands towards the boat, and imploring, in the most moving terms, to be taken on board. The Greek saw it without concern or pity, and,