Egypt To-day: The First to the Third KhediveR. Bentley and son, 1892 - 331 من الصفحات |
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Abbas administration Alexandria American appeared Arabi Pasha Arabic army Artin Pasha Assiout barrage baths become Bosphore Boulac bribed Britain British occupation Cairo Canal century chapter civilized Colin Scott Colin Scott Moncrieff courts of justice crops desert desire duty Egyptian affairs Egyptian Government Egyptian question England English Europe European father favour Fellaheen FIDUCIA foreign France French Helouan impressed interest irrigation Ismail Ismail Pasha journals judges judicial Justice Scott Khedive Khedive's labour land live Lord Dufferin Lower Egypt Luxor Mehemet Mehemet Ali ment millions sterling Minister Mokattam Muslim native courts never newspapers Nubar Pasha Nubia opinion palace Pharaohs present public debt pupils Pyramids remarkable rendered Riaz Pasha ruler Sadyk schools Sir Colin Scott Sir John Bowring soldiers Soudan statesmen streets Sultan of Turkey tax-gatherer Tewfik tion traveller Tribunals troops Upper Egypt village visited visitors Wady Halfa wrote
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الصفحة 309 - How the world look'd when it was fresh and young, And the great Deluge still had left it green — Or was it then so old, that History's pages Contain'd no record of its early ages?
الصفحة 98 - 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.
الصفحة 5 - and he has no way of avoiding their extortionate demands. Next, the wretch is caught, bound, and sent off to work, without wage, at the canals ; his wife is taken and chained, his children are stripped and plundered.
الصفحة 98 - 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 Sphinx has watched and watched like a Providence, with the same earnest eyes, and the same sad, tranquil mien.
الصفحة 98 - And we, we shall die, and Islam will wither away, and the Englishman, leaning 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...
الصفحة 5 - The tax collector arrives ; his agents are armed with clubs, he has negroes with him who carry whips of palm branches. They all cry, " give us your grain," and he has no way of avoiding their extortionate demands.
الصفحة 324 - It is for Her Majesty's Government to judge of the importance to be attached to public opinion in England, but I venture to think that any attempt to settle Egyptian questions by the light of English popular feeling is sure to...
الصفحة 315 - I have been reading Miss Martineau's book ; the descriptions are excellent, and it is true as far as it goes ; but there is the usual defect ; — to her, as to most Europeans, the people are not real people, only part of the scenery.
الصفحة 325 - Government and the public opinion of England have pronounced against such an alternative. But though it be our fixed determination that the new regime shall not surcharge us with the responsibility of permanently administering the country, whether directly or indirectly, it is absolutely necessary to prevent the fabric we have raised from tumbling to the ground the moment our sustaining hand is withdrawn. Such a catastrophe would be the signal for the return of confusion to this country and renewed...
الصفحة 71 - Binbashi, a subaltern officer, at the head of his men. For the instant I was the only obstacle that prevented his proceeding on the road ; and I could neither retreat nor turn round, to give him room to pass. Seeing it was a Frank who stopped his way, he gave me a violent blow on my stomach. Not being accustomed to put up with such salutations, I returned the compliment with my whip across his naked shoulders. Instantly he took his pistol out of his belt; I jumped off my ass ; he retired about two...