View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 348 pages |
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... success than the preceding volumes . The study of animated nature , in itself pleasing , is absolutely necessary as a branch of useful knowledge . In the present volume the subject is treated with peculiar adroitness , and contains only ...
... success than the preceding volumes . The study of animated nature , in itself pleasing , is absolutely necessary as a branch of useful knowledge . In the present volume the subject is treated with peculiar adroitness , and contains only ...
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... success as a mere literary speculation . It ought to find a place in every school and private family in the kingdom . " - Bris- tol Journal . " The design of this publication is highly laudable : if it be patronised according to its ...
... success as a mere literary speculation . It ought to find a place in every school and private family in the kingdom . " - Bris- tol Journal . " The design of this publication is highly laudable : if it be patronised according to its ...
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... success . It may be true that much was not accomplished which might have been expected from the magnitude and complete- ness of their preparations and appointments ; but it is to be remembered that their time to investi- gate and ...
... success . It may be true that much was not accomplished which might have been expected from the magnitude and complete- ness of their preparations and appointments ; but it is to be remembered that their time to investi- gate and ...
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... Success against the Beys ; appointed Pasha -British Expedition in 1807 - Massacre of Mamlouks- History of Wahabees ; defeated by Ibrahim Pasha - European Tactics introduced -Character of Mohammed Ali ... ...... Page 209 CHAPTER VIII ...
... Success against the Beys ; appointed Pasha -British Expedition in 1807 - Massacre of Mamlouks- History of Wahabees ; defeated by Ibrahim Pasha - European Tactics introduced -Character of Mohammed Ali ... ...... Page 209 CHAPTER VIII ...
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... success was impossible , and that it was the will of the gods to conceal from all generations this great secret of nature . Homer , in language sufficiently ambiguous , describes it as a stream descending from heaven . Herodo- tus made ...
... success was impossible , and that it was the will of the gods to conceal from all generations this great secret of nature . Homer , in language sufficiently ambiguous , describes it as a stream descending from heaven . Herodo- tus made ...
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View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural History Michael Russell No preview available - 2016 |
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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...