 ... by every living thing, from the crocodile to the pasha, from the papyrus to the palm-tree: and yet, strange to say, it seems to pour into the sea a wider stream than it displays between the cataracts a thousand miles away. The Nile is all in all to...  The practical English grammar - Página 111por Robert Armstrong (English master, Madras College, St. Andrews.) - 1868 - 120 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Eliot Warburton - 1845 - 556 páginas
...seems to pour into the sea a wider stream than it displays between the cataracts a thousand miles away. The Nile is all in all to the Egyptian : if it withheld...it waters and manures his fields, it supplies his harvests, and then * Elephantina. t For an account of the formation of the travertine of which Piestum... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 páginas
...seems to pour into the sea a wider stream than it displays between the cataracts a thousand miles away. The Nile is all in all to the Egyptian ; if it withheld...week, his country would become a desert. It waters and enriches his fields, it supplies his harvest, and then carries off its produce to the sea. He drinks... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 páginas
...one of our party was seen busied in adding the inscription of his name.' DR ED CLARKE. The Nile.— THE Nile is all in all to the Egyptian. If it withheld...become a desert. It waters and manures his fields, supplies his harvest, and then carries off their produce to the sea for exportation. He drinks of it,... | |
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