Egypt as it isH. Holt, 1877 - 417 من الصفحات |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abbas Pasha administration Alexandria amount annual Arab ardebs ARTICLE Assiout Assouan average bank bonds Boulak Budget Cairo capital cent charge chief chiefly civilisation Copts corvée cost cotton crop cultivation Daïra Damietta Darfour decree Delta desert dhoura eastern Egypt proper Egyptian English estates estimated Europe European exports Fayoum feddans fellahs floating debt foreign French funds Government harbour Hedjaz Highness increase interest irrigation Ismaïl Ismaïlia Khartoum Khedive Khedive's Kordofan labour Lake land latter less loans Lower Egypt Mehemet Mehemet Ali ment miles Minister of Finance Ministry Moukabala native nearly Nile nominal Nubia official payment piastres population Port Saïd present produce province Public Debt pupils railway rank received Red Sea redemption reform reign revenue river Rosetta Saïd Pasha schools Shendy slaves Souakim Soudan Suez Canal sugar tion town trade Treasury unified debt Upper Egypt village whole
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الصفحة 60 - And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks of the Nile and sit in the seats of the Faithful, and still that sleepless rock will lie watching and watching the works of the new busy race, with those same sad earnest eyes, and the same tranquil mien everlasting. You dare not mock at the Sphynx.
الصفحة 60 - Warburton to-day — upon all and more this unworldly Sphinx has watched, and watched like a providence with the same earnest eyes, and the same sad tranquil mien.
الصفحة 16 - Syene to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman. Along the valley descends a river, on which the blessing of the Most High reposes both in the evening and morning, and which rises and falls with the revolutions of the sun and moon. When the...
الصفحة 60 - Upon ancient dynasties of Ethiopian and Egyptian Kings — upon Greek and Roman, upon Arab and Ottoman conquerors — upon Napoleon dreaming of an Eastern Empire — upon battle and pestilence — upon the ceaseless misery of the Egyptian race — upon keen-eyed travellers — Herodotus yesterday, and Warburton to-day — upon all and more this unworldly Sphynx has watched, and watched like a Providence with the same earnest eyes, and the same sad, tranquil mien.
الصفحة 16 - High reposes both in the evening and the morning, and which rises and falls with the revolutions of the sun and moon. When the annual dispensation of Providence unlocks the springs and fountains that nourish the earth, the Nile rolls his swelling...
الصفحة 380 - Still the expenditure, though heavy, would not of itself have produced the present crisis, which may be attributed almost entirely to the ruinous conditions of loans raised for pressing requirements, due in some cases to causes over which the Khedive had little control.
الصفحة 42 - European with its regular houses, tall and white and stiff, the other half Oriental, with its mudcoloured buildings and terraced roofs, varied with fat mosques and lean minarets; the suburbs are encrusted with the wretched hovels of the Arab poor, and immense mounds and tracts of rubbish occupy the wide space between the city and its -walls ; all beyond is a dreary waste...
الصفحة 15 - ... is generally about ten feet near the river, and decreases gradually as it recedes from it; and thirdly, that beneath the mud there is a bed of sand analogous to the substance which has at all times been brought down by the flood of the Nile.
الصفحة 16 - ... compared to a swarm of industrious ants; and their native indolence is quickened by the lash of the taskmaster and the promise of the flowers and fruits of a plentiful increase. Their hope is seldom deceived; but the riches which they extract from the wheat, the barley, and the rice, the legumes, the fruit-trees, and the cattle, are unequally shared between those who labour and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave,...
الصفحة 383 - By these conditions the nominal amount of 32,000,000?. was reduced to an apparent effective of 20,740,077?., of which 9,000,000?. were paid in the bonds of the floating debt. These bonds, purchased by the contractors at a heavy discount, and sometimes at a price as low as 65 per cent., were paid into the Treasury at 93 per cent., an operation which materially enhanced the profits accruing to the negotiators of the loan.