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Side 234
... traveller , Mr. Burchardt ; and departed for Thebes , for the purpose of conveying to Alex- andria the colossal head of young Memnon , which is now depo- sited in the British Museum . In his way thither he stopped to examine the ...
... traveller , Mr. Burchardt ; and departed for Thebes , for the purpose of conveying to Alex- andria the colossal head of young Memnon , which is now depo- sited in the British Museum . In his way thither he stopped to examine the ...
Side 236
... traveller has omitted to notice , viz . the circumstance of the walls sloping inward . This did not escape the observation of the accurate Denon , who extols this edifice as being executed in the purest style of Egyptian architecture ...
... traveller has omitted to notice , viz . the circumstance of the walls sloping inward . This did not escape the observation of the accurate Denon , who extols this edifice as being executed in the purest style of Egyptian architecture ...
Side 240
... traveller's pursuit were very minute : and the required permission was granted , on the latter promising that , if the temple should be full of gold , the Cacheff should have one half ; but if it should be full of stones , they should ...
... traveller's pursuit were very minute : and the required permission was granted , on the latter promising that , if the temple should be full of gold , the Cacheff should have one half ; but if it should be full of stones , they should ...
Side 241
... travellers stopped to attend an Arabian dance , of which we have a pleasing delineation in the thirteenth plate . They were courteously introduced in front of the spec- tators . " The performers consisted of about thirty men , all in a ...
... travellers stopped to attend an Arabian dance , of which we have a pleasing delineation in the thirteenth plate . They were courteously introduced in front of the spec- tators . " The performers consisted of about thirty men , all in a ...
Side 243
... traveller an instant . The sun was rising , and the long shades from the various groups of columns extended over these ruins , intermixed with the rays of light striking on these masses in various directions , formed such delightful ...
... traveller an instant . The sun was rising , and the long shades from the various groups of columns extended over these ruins , intermixed with the rays of light striking on these masses in various directions , formed such delightful ...
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Side 436 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Side 435 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Side 245 - I sought a resting-place, found one, and contrived to sit ; but when my weight bore on the body of an Egyptian, it crushed it like a band-box. I naturally had recourse to my hands to sustain my weight, but they found no better support ; so that I sunk altogether among the broken mummies, with a crash of bones, rags, and wooden cases, which raised such a dust as kept me motionless for a quarter of an hour, waiting till it subsided again.
Side 382 - The person who would treat such a subject must increase the ideal, and diminish the actual horror of the events, so that the pleasure which arises from the poetry which exists in these tempestuous sufferings and crimes may mitigate the pain of the contemplation of the moral deformity from which they spring.
Side 146 - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus ; who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God ; but made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man : and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross.
Side 185 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own : but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Side 387 - Pah ! I am choked ! There creeps A clinging, black, contaminating mist About me — 'tis substantial, heavy, thick ; I cannot pluck it from me, for it glues My fingers and my limbs to one another, And eats into my sinews, and dissolves My flesh to a pollution, poisoning The subtle, pure, and inmost spirit of life ! My God ! I never knew what the mad felt Before ; for I am mad beyond all doubt ! [Afore wildly.
Side 185 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Side 499 - Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the respective laws and customs of the same ? Sovereign. I solemnly promise so to do.
Side 211 - ... it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.