View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 348 pages |
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... thousand copies , has just appeared . This httle work has been justly lauded by ally ties , for the tone of grave and generous candour which it maintains throughout . It is , in truth , a masterly epitome of all that has been proved to ...
... thousand copies , has just appeared . This httle work has been justly lauded by ally ties , for the tone of grave and generous candour which it maintains throughout . It is , in truth , a masterly epitome of all that has been proved to ...
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... thousand years , continue to resist the injuries of the atmosphere and of barbarism , bear evidence to a still greater magnificence than is recorded in the pages of the Odyssey . While the nations which at present make the greatest ...
... thousand years , continue to resist the injuries of the atmosphere and of barbarism , bear evidence to a still greater magnificence than is recorded in the pages of the Odyssey . While the nations which at present make the greatest ...
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... thousand , or at most two thousand years before his own time ; whereas , in the days of Moses , the wisdom of Egypt had already become proverbial , and that , too , among the Syrian tribes who bordered upon the original seats of ...
... thousand , or at most two thousand years before his own time ; whereas , in the days of Moses , the wisdom of Egypt had already become proverbial , and that , too , among the Syrian tribes who bordered upon the original seats of ...
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... thousand years , convey into it such a quantity of earth as would raise its bed to the level of the surrounding coast . I am of opinion , he subjoins , that this might take place even within ten thou- sand years ; why then might not a ...
... thousand years , convey into it such a quantity of earth as would raise its bed to the level of the surrounding coast . I am of opinion , he subjoins , that this might take place even within ten thou- sand years ; why then might not a ...
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... thousands of years ; which , as Humboldt remarks , is a proof well worthy of attention , that the mean state of humidity and temperature does not vary in that vast basin . * The rise of the water is so regular that the inhabitants of ...
... thousands of years ; which , as Humboldt remarks , is a proof well worthy of attention , that the mean state of humidity and temperature does not vary in that vast basin . * The rise of the water is so regular that the inhabitants of ...
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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...