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STEAMER TO EGYPT FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. 7
Seraglio, I would fain yet linger amid the crumbling capitals
built by the Greek Emperors, and the chambers filled with the
Caliph's works ; the libraries of rare books, the portraits of the
Sultans—every one of whom rose by the murder of some
father or brother; the beds glittering Avith gems in the dark
old Saracenic chambers, where many a Sultan has been
strangled ; the halls, where the tyrant would only show him-
self through a. steel grating. Farewell to all these : we are
now for the land of Egypt to study its lore, as did the Grecian
scholars of old, when they left the cool shades of the Academy
for the priestly colleges of Sais and Heliopolis. Will it make
us Christian, like, Alciphron, or unbelieving, like the infidels
of France?
Seraglio, I would fain yet linger amid the crumbling capitals
built by the Greek Emperors, and the chambers filled with the
Caliph's works ; the libraries of rare books, the portraits of the
Sultans—every one of whom rose by the murder of some
father or brother; the beds glittering Avith gems in the dark
old Saracenic chambers, where many a Sultan has been
strangled ; the halls, where the tyrant would only show him-
self through a. steel grating. Farewell to all these : we are
now for the land of Egypt to study its lore, as did the Grecian
scholars of old, when they left the cool shades of the Academy
for the priestly colleges of Sais and Heliopolis. Will it make
us Christian, like, Alciphron, or unbelieving, like the infidels
of France?