View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryHarper & Bros., 1835 - 348 pages |
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... travellers abroad , and of learned men at home , since the be- ginning of the present century , have contributed not a little towards removing the perplexity which was wont to beset the historian and chronologer at the very threshold of ...
... travellers abroad , and of learned men at home , since the be- ginning of the present century , have contributed not a little towards removing the perplexity which was wont to beset the historian and chronologer at the very threshold of ...
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... traveller in our own days , amid the desolations of Karnac and the ruins of Luxor . The land of the Pharaohs , in truth , was an old country in the infant age of Greece . The earliest writers of Europe described its grandeur as having ...
... traveller in our own days , amid the desolations of Karnac and the ruins of Luxor . The land of the Pharaohs , in truth , was an old country in the infant age of Greece . The earliest writers of Europe described its grandeur as having ...
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... traveller of the cave of Elephanta . The resemblance , indeed , is singularly striking ; as are , in fact , all the lead- ing principles of Egyptian architecture to that of the Hin- doos . They differ only , it has been observed , in ...
... traveller of the cave of Elephanta . The resemblance , indeed , is singularly striking ; as are , in fact , all the lead- ing principles of Egyptian architecture to that of the Hin- doos . They differ only , it has been observed , in ...
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... traveller as an immense valley , extending nearly 600 miles in length , and hemmed in , on either side , by a ridge of hills and a vast expanse of desert . Viewed as an alluvial basin , it owes its existence entirely to the Nile , which ...
... traveller as an immense valley , extending nearly 600 miles in length , and hemmed in , on either side , by a ridge of hills and a vast expanse of desert . Viewed as an alluvial basin , it owes its existence entirely to the Nile , which ...
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... travellers have passed by water from Tim- buctoo to Cairo , -a circumstance which , if true , proves either that the Niger and the Nile are the same , or that there must be intermediate streams , forming , between the two rivers just ...
... travellers have passed by water from Tim- buctoo to Cairo , -a circumstance which , if true , proves either that the Niger and the Nile are the same , or that there must be intermediate streams , forming , between the two rivers just ...
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Page 319 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Page 197 - Son of man, dig now in the wall." And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door: and he said unto me, "Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
Page 340 - Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people; for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 207 - The miner, the builder of the furnace for smelting the ore, the feller of the timber, the burner of the charcoal to be made use of in the smeltinghouse, the brick-maker, the brick-layer, the workmen who attend the furnace, the mill-wright, the forger, the smith, must all of them join their different arts in order to produce them.
Page 207 - How much commerce and navigation in particular, how many shipbuilders, sailors, sailmakers, ropemakers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world! What a variety of labor too is necessary in order to produce the tools of the meanest of those workmen!
Page 170 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on the south side of the...
Page 193 - I have reserved till this place, merits the most particular attention, not having its equal in the world, and being such as we had no idea could exist. It is a sarcophagus of the finest oriental alabaster, nine feet five inches long, and three feet seven inches wide. Its thickness is only two inches ; and it is transparent, when a light is placed in the inside of it.
Page 23 - Babylonians, among whom he also travelled, he relates that they have no professors of medicine, but that they carry their sick into some public square, with the view of getting advice from any one who may happen to have been afflicted with the same illness. The passengers in general, says he, interrogate the sufferer in regard to the nature of his malady, in order that, if any one of them has been attacked with a similar disease himself, or seen its operation on a third person, he may communicate...
Page 197 - So I went in and saw ; and, behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
Page 40 - Their cottages, being built of earth, could not stand one instant against the current, and no sooner did the water reach them, than it levelled them with the ground. The rapid stream carried off all that was before it; men, women, children, cattle, corn...