 If you speak of the Nile, where is there a more wonderful river ? What water was ever lighter or more delicious? The very slime it carries along in its overflowing fattens the fields, which produce a thousand times more than other countries that are cultivated...  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night - Page 161884Full view - About this book
 | 1811 - 438 pages
...produce a thousand times more, without cultivation, than others with the greatest labor. Recollect what a poet said of the Egyptians, when he was obliged to quit Egypt : " Your Nile loads you with wealth every day; — it " is for you only that it travels... | |
 | East, Henry William Weber - 1812 - 646 pages
...fattens a thousand times more than other countries that are cultivated with great labour. Do but mind what a poet said of the Egyptians, when he was obliged to depart Egypt : Your Nile loads Íou with good offices cvery day; it is for youonf that it travels so far.... | |
 | 1832 - 534 pages
...its inhabitants. All the women of that country charm you by their beauty and their agreeable carnage. If you speak of the Nile, where is there a more wonderful...loads you with blessings every day ; it is for you onjy that it runs from such a distance. Alas ! in removing from you, my tears will flow as abundantly... | |
 | 1842 - 732 pages
...times more than other countries that are cultivated with the greatest labour. Observe what a j>oet said of the Egyptians, when he was obliged to depart...Your Nile loads you with blessings every day \ it is lor you only that it runs from euch a distance. Alas ! in removing from you, my tears will How as abundantly... | |
 | 1844 - 356 pages
...fattens a thousand times more than other countries that are cultivated with great labour. Do but mind what a poet said of the Egyptians, when he was obliged to depart Egypt : Your Nile loads you with good offices every day ; it is for you only that it travels so far... | |
 | John Kitto - 1866 - 688 pages
...other countries that are cultivated with the greatest labour. Observe what a poet said of the Nile, when he was obliged to depart from Egypt : " Your...with blessings every day. It is for you only that it comes from distant lands. Alas ! in departing from you, my tears will flow as abundantly as its waters.... | |
 | 1901 - 446 pages
...its inhabitants. All the women of that country charm you by their beauty and their agreeable carnage. If you speak of the Nile, where is there a more wonderful...Egypt: 'Your Nile loads you with blessings every day j it is for you only that it runs from such a distance. Alas! in removing from you, my tears will flow... | |
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