El-Misr

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Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855
 

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Side 24 - ... the mind which cannot find means of excitement in chit-chat or small talk, in a novel or a newspaper. But soon the passive fit has passed away ; again a paroxysm of ennui coming on by slow degrees, Viator loses appetite, he walks about his room all night, he yawns at conversations, and a book acts upon him as a narcotic. The man wants to wander, and he must do so, or he shall die. After about a month most pleasantly spent at Alexandria, I perceived the approach of the enemy, and as nothing hampered...
Side 33 - dignity of manhood " and carrying matters with a high hand, or you must worm your way by timidity and subservience; in fact, by becoming an animal too contemptible for man to let or injure. But to pass through the Holy Land you must either be a born believer, or have become one; in the former case you may demean yourself as you please, in the latter a path is ready prepared for you. My spirit could not bend to own myself a Burma, a renegade — to be pointed at and shunned and catechized, an object...
Side 21 - Darwaysh is allowed to ignore ceremony and politeness, as one who ceases to appear upon the stage of life ; he may pray or not, marry or remain single as he pleases, be respectable in cloth of frieze as in cloth of gold, and no one asks...
Side 36 - ... buttons, and other such articles. These things were most useful in lands where tailors abound not ; besides which, the sight of a man darning his coat or patching his slippers teems with pleasing ideas of humility. A dagger, a brass inkstand, and penholder stuck in my belt, and a mighty rosary, which on occasion might have been converted into a weapon of offence, completed my equipment.
Side 65 - you will get yourself into trouble; in Egypt you will be cursed; in Arabia you will be beaten because you are a heretic; you will pay the treble of what other travellers do, and if you fall sick you may die by the roadside.
Side 308 - Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness. Sea, hill, and wood, This populous village! Sea, and hill, and wood, With all the numberless goings on of life Inaudible as dreams!
Side 8 - Allah make it pleasant to thee ! " in answer to his friend's polite " Pleasurably and health ! " Also he is careful to avoid the irreligious action of drinking the pure element in a standing position...
Side 22 - Dervish's ragged coat not unfrequently covers the cut-throat, and, if seized in the society of such a " brother," you may reluctantly become his companion, tinder the stick or on the stake. For, be it known, Dervishes are of two orders, the Sharai, or those who conform to religion, and the Be-Sharai, or Luti, whose practices are hinted at by their own tradition, that
Side 81 - But afterwards let him take bees-honey and cinnamon and album graecum, of each half a part, and of ginger a whole part, which let him pound and mix with the honey, and form boluses, each bolus the weight of a Miskal, and of it let him use every...
Side 13 - ... the airy castle-building, which in Asia stand in lieu of the vigorous, intensive, passionate life of Europe. It is the result of a lively, impressible, excitable nature, and exquisite sensibility of nerve ; it argues a...

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