The Morning Land, المجلد 1Macmillan & Company, 1870 |
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Adullam Aigle amidst Arab Bazaar beauty Bedouin Beykos Beylerbey blue boat Bosphorus caïques carriages cave close colour Constantinople crowd Danube dark deck dragoman dressed East Empress English eyes face fancy fashion feet firman foot Frank mountain French front Galata gaze Giaour Golden Horn Greek green harem hill hill-side Holy City Holy Land horses houses Imperial Istamboul Jaffa Jerusalem journey Judea look miles minarets Moslem Mosque of Omar mountain narrow never Ottoman Pacha palace pass passengers patches Pera piles pilgrims prayer ride rise road roofs round rows Rustchuk Saaba sailing scene sedan chair seemed seen shore shrine side sight slope slowly smoke soldiers Sophia sort stand steamer steep stones stream street Sultan tombs town travellers troops turban Turkey Turkish ladies Turkish women Turks turn valley Varna veiled voyage walls wilderness wind wooden yacht
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الصفحة 257 - Dilke has written a book which is probably as well worth reading as any book of the same aims and character that ever was written. Its merits are that it is written in a lively and agreeable style, that it implies a great deal of physical pluck, that no page of it fails to show an acute and highly intelligent observer, that it stimulates the imagination as well as the judgment of the reader, and that it is on perhaps the most interesting subject that can attract an Englishman who cares about his...
الصفحة 257 - Dilke," says the SATURDAY REVIEW, " has written a book which is probably as well worth reading as any book of the same aims and character that ever was written. Its merits are that it is written in a lively and agreeable style, that it implies a great deal of physical pluck, that no page of it fails to...
الصفحة 61 - They are the money- takers of the bridge, and opposite to them is a guard of soldiers, who, to keep up the pantomimic character of the scene, make a charge at any wayfarer who attempts to sneak through without paying toll, and bring him back in triumph to the grave, silent, white figures at the receipt of custom. Five paras — that is, about one farthing — is the price of your ticket of admission ; and the nett proceeds are devoted to relief of the poor.
الصفحة 230 - WE read that when David was withdrawn into the wilderness from the rage of Saul, every one that was in distress, or in debt, or discontented, gathered themselves unto him, and he became their captain, 1 Sam.
الصفحة 258 - ... stimulants and soothing agents, and its effects through heredity. The laws of sanitary science demand that man shall so order himself in relation to his health conditions as to secure for the benefit of society, as well Recreation as a Sanitary Agent. as of himself, a sound mind in a healthy body; and one of the most agreeable, as well as one of the most necessary agents in doing this, is found in recreation; the true meaning of which is, that which re-creates. It is based upon a recognition...
الصفحة 257 - Mr. Dilke has written a book which is probably as well worth reading as any book of the same aims and character that ever was written.
الصفحة 258 - A vivid picture of tropical life, which may be read with unflagging interest, and a sufficient account of his scientific conclusions to stimulate our appetite without wearying us by detail. In short, we may safely say that we have seldom read a more agreeable book of its kind.
الصفحة 257 - ¡•formation, as weil as his exceedingly clear way of stating his views. As a mere work of travel his book is exceedingly pleasant reading, and it gives one, in a comparatively small compass, an infinity of information of the sort one most cares to have. Above all, it is eminently suggestive, and what we should pronounce its highest merit is not so much the knowledge it communicates as the craving it excites for more.
الصفحة 61 - ... and then, when you reach the summit, the curtain rises on the first act of the entertainment. The scenery is finer, surely, than any which Telbin ever painted. A gorgeous sunlight overhead, making the houses white, the waters blue, the shadows black, with a depth and sharpness of colour which would seem unnatural in any hand-drawn picture. On the left, across the Bosphorus, the cypress groves which...