Travels in the East, tr. from [Reise in den Orient] by W.E. Shuckard |
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Page 11
... remains of the famed splendour of the city of Alexander . The gigantic catacombs , a real city of the dead , with the adjoining bath of Cleopatra , which bears her name without the least foundation , recall less its passed splendour ...
... remains of the famed splendour of the city of Alexander . The gigantic catacombs , a real city of the dead , with the adjoining bath of Cleopatra , which bears her name without the least foundation , recall less its passed splendour ...
Page 27
... remains of the ancient Saracenic style of architecture . Upon visiting , subsequently , this silent and yet eloquent region of the dead , I inspected , amongst other things , the family tomb of Mehemet Ali , consisting of a double ...
... remains of the ancient Saracenic style of architecture . Upon visiting , subsequently , this silent and yet eloquent region of the dead , I inspected , amongst other things , the family tomb of Mehemet Ali , consisting of a double ...
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... remains had been destroyed . In ex- planation of this Palimpsest we must recur to the period and the course of the Iconoclastic fury , which , judging hence , must also have raged at Alexandria . we But to revert to the walled - up ...
... remains had been destroyed . In ex- planation of this Palimpsest we must recur to the period and the course of the Iconoclastic fury , which , judging hence , must also have raged at Alexandria . we But to revert to the walled - up ...
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... remains of such a shining encasement . Here stood I upon the very summit of the largest pyramid , and my eye surveyed a wide extent of this wonderful and most remarkable land . What a circuit did I not behold ! In the north - east lay ...
... remains of such a shining encasement . Here stood I upon the very summit of the largest pyramid , and my eye surveyed a wide extent of this wonderful and most remarkable land . What a circuit did I not behold ! In the north - east lay ...
Page 39
... remains of it still lie at the foot of the pyramid , whilst upon the second the remains of the former coloured - marble coating , still well preserved , glitter at its summit . Several of the other pyramids of Egypt , as is well known ...
... remains of it still lie at the foot of the pyramid , whilst upon the second the remains of the former coloured - marble coating , still well preserved , glitter at its summit . Several of the other pyramids of Egypt , as is well known ...
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