View of Ancient and Modern Egypt: With an Outline of Its Natural HistoryOliver & Boyd, 1831 - 480 pages |
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... ignorance , and the credulity of childhood . In reviewing the annals of the great nations of * Heeren's Ideas on the Politics and Commerce of An- cient Nations . antiquity , it is interesting to observe that nearly all 28 INTRODUCTION .
... ignorance , and the credulity of childhood . In reviewing the annals of the great nations of * Heeren's Ideas on the Politics and Commerce of An- cient Nations . antiquity , it is interesting to observe that nearly all 28 INTRODUCTION .
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... nearly all the knowledge we possess of their manners and institutions may be attributed to a circumstance so very trivial as the choice which they made of their materials for building . As the rise of Egyptian power and wisdom preceded ...
... nearly all the knowledge we possess of their manners and institutions may be attributed to a circumstance so very trivial as the choice which they made of their materials for building . As the rise of Egyptian power and wisdom preceded ...
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... nearly 600 miles in length , and hemmed in , on either side , by a ridge of hills and a vast expanse of desert . View- ed as an alluvial basin , it owes its existence entirely to the Nile , which flows through it from south to north ...
... nearly 600 miles in length , and hemmed in , on either side , by a ridge of hills and a vast expanse of desert . View- ed as an alluvial basin , it owes its existence entirely to the Nile , which flows through it from south to north ...
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... lands in the interior of Africa . The mud of the Nile upon analysis gives nearly one - half of argillaceous earth , with about one - fourth C of carbonate of lime ; the remainder consisting of water GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT . 49.
... lands in the interior of Africa . The mud of the Nile upon analysis gives nearly one - half of argillaceous earth , with about one - fourth C of carbonate of lime ; the remainder consisting of water GEOGRAPHY OF EGYPT . 49.
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... nearly nine months in the year . They continue with little intermission from May till September ; but , about the autumnal equinox , they veer round to the east , where they remain nearly six weeks , with only slight deviations . About ...
... nearly nine months in the year . They continue with little intermission from May till September ; but , about the autumnal equinox , they veer round to the east , where they remain nearly six weeks , with only slight deviations . About ...
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Page 261 - 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 189 - An Account of some Recent Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature and Egyptian Antiquities, &c.
Page 226 - 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 273 - 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 255 - 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 261 - 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 107 - Greeks ; but even these are inferior to the Labyrinth. It is composed of twelve courts, all of which are covered ; their entrances are opposite to each other, six to the north and six to the south ; one wall encloses the whole. The apartments are of two kinds ; there are fifteen hundred above the surface of the ground, and as many beneath, — in all three thousand.
Page 50 - 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...
Page 452 - I bear 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 422 - 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.