The Fayoum: Or, Artists in EgyptH. S. King & Company, 1873 - 298 стор. |
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... appeared to take this simple exercise as the performance of an act of devotion . The festival of Baïram formed the pretext for these truly antique rejoicings . At every step we came upon the most amusing family scenes ; the purchase of ...
... appeared to take this simple exercise as the performance of an act of devotion . The festival of Baïram formed the pretext for these truly antique rejoicings . At every step we came upon the most amusing family scenes ; the purchase of ...
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... appearance quite special to itself , by modifying the angle formed by the apex . Its profile , slightly ogive , has some- thing of the same strange appearance which I noticed in the Assyrian buildings at Mossoul . Our attention was ...
... appearance quite special to itself , by modifying the angle formed by the apex . Its profile , slightly ogive , has some- thing of the same strange appearance which I noticed in the Assyrian buildings at Mossoul . Our attention was ...
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... appeared to them to be savages from the West , who fed on unknown materials , and shamelessly drank wine before the face of the Prophet himself . The entrance to this little acropolis was specially . remarkable ; in this place , the ...
... appeared to them to be savages from the West , who fed on unknown materials , and shamelessly drank wine before the face of the Prophet himself . The entrance to this little acropolis was specially . remarkable ; in this place , the ...
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... appeared in the distance , like an immense fortress perched upon an elevated plateau and covered with graceful minarets and cupolas . Those domes which first came into view belonged to an ancient cemetery of considerable extent , now ...
... appeared in the distance , like an immense fortress perched upon an elevated plateau and covered with graceful minarets and cupolas . Those domes which first came into view belonged to an ancient cemetery of considerable extent , now ...
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... appeared , we took a delicious bath in the same stream in which we had pictured to our imagination a band of lions drinking in the night season , in order to excite the hunger which we were to satisfy . We were enjoying our bath , and ...
... appeared , we took a delicious bath in the same stream in which we had pictured to our imagination a band of lions drinking in the night season , in order to excite the hunger which we were to satisfy . We were enjoying our bath , and ...
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