The Land of the Pharaohs Including a Sketch of Sinai Drawn With Pen And Penci
The Land of the Pharaohs Including a Sketch of Sinai Drawn With Pen And Penci
Samuel Manning
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Again, as we gaze, we seem to see at the head of his armies the magnificent Emir Yusef Salah-e'deen march from Cairo to confront the Crusaders under Richard the Lion-hearted, King of England, and, having given some of its most romantic chapters to modern history, to return, and dying, send his shroud round the city, whilst criers went before it, exclaiming, ' This is all that remains of the pomp of Saladin. ' Coming down to our own times, we cannot forget the Battle of the Pyramids, when a smal...l compact French army withstood the attack of 60, 000 Mam- lukes and compelled them to retreat, leaving 15, 000 dead upon the field. In the four thousand years over which the history of Egypt extends, what generations have lived and died, what empires have risen and flourished and decayed ! Surrounded by these affecting memorials of bygone ages, we seem to hear a voice sounding from the silence of the past, and saying, ' All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field : the grass withereth, the flower fadeth : .
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