View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 348 pages |
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... according to its deserts , we have no hesitation in saying that its success will be very considerable . " - Edinburgh Advertiser . " If we had been called on to state what in our opinion was wanted to complete the several periodicals ...
... according to its deserts , we have no hesitation in saying that its success will be very considerable . " - Edinburgh Advertiser . " If we had been called on to state what in our opinion was wanted to complete the several periodicals ...
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... according to the direction of the rocky barriers by which its limits are determined , -spread- ing , at some parts , into a spacious plain , while at others it contracts its dimensions to less than two leagues . The mean width has been ...
... according to the direction of the rocky barriers by which its limits are determined , -spread- ing , at some parts , into a spacious plain , while at others it contracts its dimensions to less than two leagues . The mean width has been ...
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... according to the reckoning of the modern Jews . But the numbers given there differ materially from those of the Samaritan text and the Septuagint version ; which , carrying the deluge back to the year 3716 before Christ , make an ...
... according to the reckoning of the modern Jews . But the numbers given there differ materially from those of the Samaritan text and the Septuagint version ; which , carrying the deluge back to the year 3716 before Christ , make an ...
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... according to the usual term of the inundation . * It was probably to prevent the occurrence of such catas- trophes , as well as to turn to a beneficial purpose the super- fluous waters of the Nile , that the lake of Moris , and other ...
... according to the usual term of the inundation . * It was probably to prevent the occurrence of such catas- trophes , as well as to turn to a beneficial purpose the super- fluous waters of the Nile , that the lake of Moris , and other ...
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... according to the different kinds of grain , -leaving time in most cases for a succession of crops , wherever there is a full command of water . The cold season begins with December , and con- tinues about two months . Spring appears in ...
... according to the different kinds of grain , -leaving time in most cases for a succession of crops , wherever there is a full command of water . The cold season begins with December , and con- tinues about two months . Spring appears in ...
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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.
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Page 134 - ... distinct inscriptions : and the last, which is in Greek, ends with the information, that the decree, which it contains, was ordered to be engraved in three different characters, the sacred letters, the letters of the country, and the Greek. Unfortunately a considerable part of the first inscription is wanting : the beginning of the second, and the end of the third, are also mutilated ; so that we have no precise points of coincidence from which we can set out, in our attempts to decipher the...
Page 54 - At length the native Egyptian princes rebelled against these tyrants, and, after a tedious warfare, drove them out of the rest of Egypt, and shut them up in Avaris, where they had collected all their cattle and plunder, and besieged them with an army of 480,000 men. But, despairing of success, the Egyptians concluded a treaty with them, and they were suffered to depart unmolested from Egypt, with all their households, amounting to 240,000 souls, and their cattle. Accordingly they crossed the desert;...
Page 184 - It was impossible to view and to reflect Upon a picture so copious and so detailed as this I have just described, without fancying that I saw here the original of many of Homer's battles, the portrait of some of the historical narratives of Herodotus, and one of the principal ground-works of the...