About Algeria: Algiers, Tlemçen, Constantine, Biskra, TimgadJohn Lane, 1912 - 305 من الصفحات |
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Abd-el-Kader Algeria Algiers ancient appear aqueduct Arab arches army Aurès Aurès mountains Barbary Batna beauty Berbers Biskra Bougie Bugeaud building built Byzantine Cæsarea café camel caravan century Cherchel Christian Cirta civilization colonists colony columns conquerors conquest Constantine cultivation decoration desert Donatists DOORWAY east Empire English Europe European feet France French garden garrison gorge hills holy houses inhabitants inscriptions interest Jews Khabyle Khabylia Kheir-ed-Din King land Mansoura marble matter Mediterranean ment mihrab miles modern Mohammedan Moorish Morocco mosque motor-car mountain Mozabites museum native natural North Africa oasis occupied Oran palm pass perhaps plain pleasant Pompeii population race railway religion river road Roman city Rome ruins Sahara Sétif shore side Sidi Okba slaves Spanish stone stranger streets suggest Sultan Tebessa Timgad tion Tipasa Tlemçen to-day town traveller trees troops valley Vandal villages walls women Yakoub
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الصفحة 4 - Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. — All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.
الصفحة 189 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
الصفحة 80 - And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. 25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, 1 will call for thee.
الصفحة 104 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them...
الصفحة 47 - Johnson himself (The Vanity of Human Wishes) : His fate was destined to a barren strand, A -petty fortress, and a dubious hand} He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
الصفحة 214 - Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness And Wilderness is Paradise enow. XII 'How sweet is mortal Sovranty!' - think some: Others - 'How blest the Paradise to come!
الصفحة 55 - Cuttle,1 and Curtis, and Mootham," and I, went to the Fleece Tavern to drink ; and there we spent till four o'clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the manner of the life of slaves there.3 And truly Captn.
الصفحة 262 - XXI- confined to the chosen portion of the African believers, who alone had preserved inviolate the integrity of their faith and discipline. This rigid theory was supported by the most uncharitable conduct.
الصفحة 125 - For occasion, as it is in the common verse, turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken...
الصفحة 238 - With the venerable proconsul, his son, who had accompanied him into Africa as his lieutenant, was likewise declared emperor. His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations ; and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were...