History of Egypt during the era of Khedive Ismail Pasha

Over the course of centuries, Egypt has seen the manifestations of greatness and its scopes, the splendor and majesty of kingship, and the pomp and beauty of formalities, such that no country in existence would envy the achievements of that, but it did not come in succession under the dome of its clear sky, and on the banks of its blessed Nile, a series of years that took its largest share of maje...