View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 348 pages |
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... capital manual -- and there will never be , in as far as we can see , the smallest occasion for writing this story over again . " - Blackwood's Magazine . " This constitutes the seventh volume of the Family Library . It is incomparably ...
... capital manual -- and there will never be , in as far as we can see , the smallest occasion for writing this story over again . " - Blackwood's Magazine . " This constitutes the seventh volume of the Family Library . It is incomparably ...
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... capital of the Thebaid , with its hundred gates and its vast population , was a subject of wonder and of the most exalted panegyric , an effect which we should at once attribute to the exaggeration of the poet , were it not that the ...
... capital of the Thebaid , with its hundred gates and its vast population , was a subject of wonder and of the most exalted panegyric , an effect which we should at once attribute to the exaggeration of the poet , were it not that the ...
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... capital of Egypt ; turned the course of the stream towards the Delta ; and led it to the sea at an equal distance from the elevated ground by which on either side the country is bounded . Menes is moreover said to have been a great ...
... capital of Egypt ; turned the course of the stream towards the Delta ; and led it to the sea at an equal distance from the elevated ground by which on either side the country is bounded . Menes is moreover said to have been a great ...
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... capital of Colchis , for many generations . This governor was the father of Eetes , who was the father of Medea , the mistress of Jason in the Argonautic expedition , which , it is well known took place about 1225 B. C .; that ANCIENT ...
... capital of Colchis , for many generations . This governor was the father of Eetes , who was the father of Medea , the mistress of Jason in the Argonautic expedition , which , it is well known took place about 1225 B. C .; that ANCIENT ...
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... capital , was enlarged and ornamented with the most profuse expenditure . The statues , the temples , and the obelisks which adorned it are described by historians in their most pompous language ; but the infelicity of its situation ...
... capital , was enlarged and ornamented with the most profuse expenditure . The statues , the temples , and the obelisks which adorned it are described by historians in their most pompous language ; but the infelicity of its situation ...
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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...