Letters on Egypt: Containing a Parallel Between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, Its Commerce, Agriculture, Government and Religion, with the Descent of Louis IX at Damieta, Extracted from Joinville and Arabian Authors, Volume 1G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1787 |
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Pagina vii
... remains in his native land , he will view other nations through a deceptive glass , which , changing their forms and colours , will lead his judg- ment aftray ; he will be aftonished at their errors , when he himself shall be tributary ...
... remains in his native land , he will view other nations through a deceptive glass , which , changing their forms and colours , will lead his judg- ment aftray ; he will be aftonished at their errors , when he himself shall be tributary ...
Pagina ix
... remains of two famous re- , publics will retrace to memory man enno- bled by the love of liberty , his foul aggran- dized , and every faculty of the body and mind perfectioned . How numerous will be his comparisons between what was and ...
... remains of two famous re- , publics will retrace to memory man enno- bled by the love of liberty , his foul aggran- dized , and every faculty of the body and mind perfectioned . How numerous will be his comparisons between what was and ...
Pagina 17
... remains , of the kind , trans- mitted to us by all antiquity , makes Mene- laus , becalmed on the Egyptian shore , speak thus . ( u ) " In the ftormy fea that bathes the " coaft of Egypt is an ifland named Pharos , " whofe diftance from ...
... remains , of the kind , trans- mitted to us by all antiquity , makes Mene- laus , becalmed on the Egyptian shore , speak thus . ( u ) " In the ftormy fea that bathes the " coaft of Egypt is an ifland named Pharos , " whofe diftance from ...
Pagina 20
... remains of all those famous works , which their ignorance has left to perish , or their intolerable fanaticifm has deftroyed ! I have the honour to be , & c , LETTER LETTER II . de- Alexandria , ancient , middle , 29 LETTERS.
... remains of all those famous works , which their ignorance has left to perish , or their intolerable fanaticifm has deftroyed ! I have the honour to be , & c , LETTER LETTER II . de- Alexandria , ancient , middle , 29 LETTERS.
Pagina 32
... remains of the fine arts ; a pro- hibition to export the corn of the Thebais gave a mortal blow to agriculture ; the ca- nals dried up , commerce languished , and the Alexandria of the Arabs was fo wholly de- + populated that not a ...
... remains of the fine arts ; a pro- hibition to export the corn of the Thebais gave a mortal blow to agriculture ; the ca- nals dried up , commerce languished , and the Alexandria of the Arabs was fo wholly de- + populated that not a ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abulfeda againſt Alexandria Almai almoſt ancient Arabs banks becauſe boats built Caliph canal Canopus cloſed Copts Damietta defcend defcribed defcription defert Delta deſtroyed Diodorus Diodorus Siculus diſtance eaft eaſtern Eddin Egypt Egyptians faid fame fands Father Sicard fays fecond feems feen feet fent feven fhall fhore fide fince firft firſt fituation flaves fmall Foftat fome fquare French ftands ftill ftones fuch fuppofed furrounded Giza Herodotus himſelf hiſtory honour houſes hundred increaſe inhabitants iſland itſelf Joinville king lake lake Mareotis lake Maris leagues M. L. M. Grand Cairo Mafr Mamluks Manfoura marble Memphis Menouf mofque moft moſt muſt neceffary Nile obferved paffage paffed pleaſure prefent preſerved Ptolemy pyramid raiſed rife river Rofetta ruins ſeen ſhall ſhe ſhould ſmall ſome ſpace ſpeak ſtanding ſtill ſtone ſtopped Strabo thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thouſand Turks uſe vaft veffels vifit village weft whofe whoſe
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