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ALEXANDRIA TO CAIRO.
own times, we cannot forget the Battle of the Pyramids, when a small compact French
army withstood the attack of 60,000 Mamlukes and compelled them to retreat, leaving
15,ooo 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 flour-
ished 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 : . . . but the word of our God shall stand for ever."1
1 Isaiah xl. 6, 8.
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own times, we cannot forget the Battle of the Pyramids, when a small compact French
army withstood the attack of 60,000 Mamlukes and compelled them to retreat, leaving
15,ooo 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 flour-
ished 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 : . . . but the word of our God shall stand for ever."1
1 Isaiah xl. 6, 8.
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