Lights and Shadows of African History, Volumen10Bradbury, Soden & Company, 1844 - 336 páginas |
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... miles , and its utmost width 4,140 . Its shape is triangular , and bears a resemblance to an irregular pyramid , of which the Barbary States form the base , and the Cape of Good Hope the apex . Its extent is about 12,000,000 square miles ...
... miles , and its utmost width 4,140 . Its shape is triangular , and bears a resemblance to an irregular pyramid , of which the Barbary States form the base , and the Cape of Good Hope the apex . Its extent is about 12,000,000 square miles ...
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... miles long , and 350 broad , and has an area of 186,000 square miles . It is a fertile valley , and its most remarkable feature is the Nile , which runs its whole length , from south to north , emptying itself into the Mediterranean Sea ...
... miles long , and 350 broad , and has an area of 186,000 square miles . It is a fertile valley , and its most remarkable feature is the Nile , which runs its whole length , from south to north , emptying itself into the Mediterranean Sea ...
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... , and about eighty in Nubia . Those of the for- mer country are all situated on the west side of the Nile , and extend , in an irregular line , to the distance of nearly seventy miles . The most famous are those. ANCIENT EGYPT . 27.
... , and about eighty in Nubia . Those of the for- mer country are all situated on the west side of the Nile , and extend , in an irregular line , to the distance of nearly seventy miles . The most famous are those. ANCIENT EGYPT . 27.
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Samuel Griswold Goodrich. of nearly seventy miles . The most famous are those of Jizeh , opposite the city of Cairo . The largest , which is said to have been built by Cheops , a king of Egypt , about 900 years before Christ , is by far ...
Samuel Griswold Goodrich. of nearly seventy miles . The most famous are those of Jizeh , opposite the city of Cairo . The largest , which is said to have been built by Cheops , a king of Egypt , about 900 years before Christ , is by far ...
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... miles from it . There was a good deal of intercourse be- tween the two nations , and the history of one naturally runs into that of the other . One instance , among many , in which the Bible record is illustrated and confirmed by the ...
... miles from it . There was a good deal of intercourse be- tween the two nations , and the history of one naturally runs into that of the other . One instance , among many , in which the Bible record is illustrated and confirmed by the ...
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Página 37 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 86 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib ? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee ? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Página 54 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 37 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature.
Página 37 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Página 230 - I shall only observe that no event which took place during the journey, ever threw the smallest gloom over my mind, till I laid Mr: Anderson in the grave. I then felt myself, as if left a second time lonely and friendless amidst the wilds of Africa.
Página 91 - It appeared to me like entering a city of giants, who, after a long conflict, were all destroyed, leaving the ruins" of their various temples as the only proofs of their former existence.
Página 219 - ... he must inevitably have been dashed to pieces. The shepherds being anxious to proceed, gave themselves little trouble about me or my horse, and kept walking on at a considerable distance. It was about eleven o'clock, as I stopped to drink a little water at a rivulet (my companions being near a quarter of a mile before me), that I heard some people calling to each other, and presently a loud screaming, as from a person in great distress. I immediately conjectured that a lion had taken one of the...
Página 88 - Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon : 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife : and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister : that it may be well with me for thy sake ; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Página 288 - In this island we stayed certain days, going every day on shore to take the inhabitants, with burning and spoiling their towns ; who before were Sapies, and were conquered by the Samboses, inhabitants beyond Sierra Leona.