 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1804 - 546 pages
...probably for ever. A man's heart fails him in looking to the south and south-west of Metrahenny. He is lost in the immense expanse of desert *, which he sees full of pyramids * The pyramids, in Coptic called Pi-re-mmte, the Sun-beatn, were sepulchral monuments, bearing the... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1830 - 560 pages
...' A man's heart,' says Bruce, ' fails him in looking to the south and south-west of Metrahenni ; he is lost in the immense expanse of desert which he sees full of pyramids before him. Struck with terror from the unusual scene of vastness opened all at once upon leaving the palmtrees,... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pages
...the desert. A man's heart fails him, he says, in looking to the south and south-west of Metraheny. He is lost in the immense expanse of desert, which he sees full of pyramids before him. Struck with terror from the unusual scene of vastness, opened all at Once upon leaving the palm-trees,... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 446 pages
...the desert A man's heart fails him, he says, in looking to the south and south-west of Metraheny. He is lost in the immense expanse of desert which he sees full of pyramids before him. Struck with terror from the unusual scene of vastiiess opened all at once upon leaving the palm-trees,... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - Ethiopia - 1840 - 398 pages
..." A man's heart," says Bruce, " fails him in looking to the south and southwest of Metrahenni ; he is lost in the immense expanse of desert which he sees full of pyramids before him. Struck with terror from the unusual scene of vastness opened all at once upon leaving the palm-trees,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1842 - 352 pages
...the desert. A man's heart fails him, he says, in looking to the south and south-west of Metraheny. He is lost in the immense expanse of desert which he sees full of pyramids before him. Struck with terror from the unusual scene of vastness opened all at once upon leaving the palm-trees,... | |
 | William Laxton - Architecture - 1844 - 506 pages
...at present open. Mr. Perring has given a sketch of those pyramids, and that gentleman remarks that Bruce probably alluded to this view, when he observed...traveller is lost in the immense expanse of desert, which; lie sees full of pyramids before him — is struck with terror at the unusual scene of vaslness, and... | |
 | Karl Baedeker - 1877 - 668 pages
...Südliche Gruppen der PYRAMIDEN vos SAKKÀIïA. l РТНАМШЕК гзп» TÜDTKNFKLT) А В U°Sl R . The traveller is lost in the immense expanse of desert, which he sees füll of Pyramids before Mm; is struck with terror at the unusual scene of vastnes», and shrinks from... | |
 | Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Egypt - 1885 - 632 pages
...caution should be used in traversing it. Some of the open shafts are no less than 50 ft. in depth. 'The traveller is lost in the immense expanse of desert, which he sees fall of Pyramids before him ; is struck with terror at the unusual scene of vastness, and shrinks from... | |
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He is lost in the immense expanse of desert which he sees full of pyramids before him. Struck with terror from the unusual scene of vastness opened all at once upon leaving the palm-trees, he becomes dispirited from the effect of... 