Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller - a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land (1885) (14586511259)

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Title: Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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the oldhome of the body again ; preserve it; care for the soul is the onlycare worth heeding ; this life is dust. They were men of mighty thought, those old builders. Theyworshipped Amor, and built colossal tombs. Human life and forcefor ages spent themselves in the building of tombs. Generationfollowed generation, and each generation was employed in building itsown tombs; and so the centuries moved on. The temples on the Libyan side of the old city are entrances tothe chanibers of the dead. One of the first visits of our tourists was to the Rameseum, or theTemple of Rameses \\. (Sesostris), which has been already spoken of;and to the colossi, which have been described. The next journey was to the great temple of Rameses HI. atMedinet Abo. The second night of the visit was passed in a tombwhose tenant had long ago turned to dust, and needed it no longer.The last day was spent at Luxor. The door of the tomb where the second night was passed com-manded a view of nearly the whole i)lain.
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KARNAK, HYPOSTYLK HALL, THE RUINS OF THE QUEEN CITY OF THE WORLD. 141 The plain was yellow and green ; palm-trees nodded in the lightNile winds, and ghosts of palaces everywhere appeared. The visitors