 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...  The Sword of Islam - Page 106de Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1905 - 523 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...and the answer of Amrou exhibits a lively and not unfaithful picture of that singular country.1" " O commander of the faithful, " Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, be" twten a pulverised mountain and a red sand. The distance " from Syene to the sea is a month1s jouruey... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...singular country *. " O commander of c HA p. " the faithful, Egypt is a compound of black earth LI. " and green plants, between a pulverised mountain "...distance from Syene to " the sea is a month's journey for an horseman. " Along the valley descends a river, on which the " blessing of the Most High reposes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pages
...and the answer of Ann ou exhibits a lively and not unfaithful picture of that singular country12*. " O commander of the faithful, Egypt is a compound of...pulverised "mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syenc "• to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman. Along "the valley descends a river, on which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 pages
...commander of the faithful, Egypt is a com" pound of black earth and green plants, be" tweeu a pulverized mountain and a red sand. " The distance from Syene to the sea is a i Eutychius. AnnaI, torn, ii, p. 320. Elmacin. Hist. Saracen, p. 35. m On these obscure canals, the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 540 pages
...Amalekites; and the answer of Amrou exhibits a lively and not unfaithful picture of that singular country." " O commander of the faithful, Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1830 - 442 pages
...commander of the faithful, Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene to...horseman. Along the valley descends a river, on which the blessings of the Most High reposes both in the evening and morning, and which rises and falls with... | |
 | Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 432 pages
...his answer would augment rather than diminish his romantic conceptions of this singular country. " O, Commander of the Faithful ! Egypt is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for a horseman.... | |
 | William Sullivan - 1838 - 640 pages
...which Amrou had added to his empire, the latter sent him a description of it, as follows : — " Oh ! commander of the faithful ! Egypt is a compound of...plants, between a pulverised mountain and a red sand, (meaning the shore.) The distance from Syene (now commonly known as the first cataract of the Nile,... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1843 - 690 pages
...caliph ; which was as follows : " Egypt, O commander of the Faithful, is a compound of black earth J and green plants, between a pulverised mountain and...distance from Syene to the sea is a month's journey for an horseman. Along the valley descends a river, on which the blessing of the most High reposes both... | |
 | James Ewing Cooley - 1843 - 668 pages
...Calif Omar, though drawn twelve hundred years ago, is true even at the present day. He said to Omar : " O commander of the faithful, Egypt* is a compound of black earth and green plants, between a pulverized mountain and a red sand. The distance from Syene * Gibbon's Decline aud Fall, London 8vo... | |
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