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Title: William H. Seward's travels around the world
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 Seward, Olive Risley, 1844-1906
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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acy of the Patriarch atConstantinople and that of the Bishop of Rome. In the mainthey go with the Roman Church in requiring celibacy for the clergy,while they adhere with the Greek Church to the abstruse meta-physical doctrines that, after the incarnation of the Saviour, Hisnature was one, and not a double nature, and that the Holy Ghostproceeds, not from the Father and the Son, but from the Fa-ther alone. The Copts have at least two convents, perhaps more, in the old House of Light. We visited that of St. George; a part of it is,beyond all doubt, much older than modern Cairo. This part is acave, in which there is a Christian church, which contains carvings,pictures, and inscriptions, illustrating the Nativity and the sojournof the Holy Family in Egypt. The Copts universally hold to thetradition that Joseph, Mary, and the child, dwelt in this cave, andthat the church was built on the consecrated place to preserve it.The cave, or, as it is here called, the grotto, is divided into three
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THE TOMBS OF CALIPHS. 509 chambers, an outer, an interior, and a middle one. In the first is aCoptic baptismal font; in the second, within a niche, a stone bear-ing the impress of the Saviours foot; in the third, a similar track. The so-called Tombs of the Caliphs constitute a feature of Cairowhich no traveller neglects. They are situated just outside of theBab-el-Nini (Gate of Victory). They are the tombs, however, notof the Mohammedan conquerors, but of their Mameluke successors.These structures, like the imambarras of the Moguls, are mosques.They are fine specimens of the Saracenic style, but have no pre-tension to grandeur. Surrounded by the sands of the Desert, theyare falling to decay and dilapidation. Many of them contain fineArabesque wood-carvings. A visit to the sepulchres of the count-less sovereigns of Egypt may well make one doubt whether theambition to be remembered after death is even wise. At least it ispossible to be remembered too long. Who cares now for Cheops,even

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