The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Accounts of that Country, Till the Expulsion of the French from Alexandria, in the Year 1801, Volume 1A. Constable & Company, 1805 - Egypt |
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... body of water . The Nile passes through regions of the torrid zone , where rains descend but at stated seasons ; and it winds part of its way through coun- tries which are parched with perpetual drought ; and , therefore , in proportion ...
... body of water . The Nile passes through regions of the torrid zone , where rains descend but at stated seasons ; and it winds part of its way through coun- tries which are parched with perpetual drought ; and , therefore , in proportion ...
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... that the ancient Indians and Egyptians were negroes , than the image of a sphynx can lead us to believe that animals ever existed with the countenance of a wo- man and the body of a lion ; or that 38 B. I. HISTORY OF EGYPT .
... that the ancient Indians and Egyptians were negroes , than the image of a sphynx can lead us to believe that animals ever existed with the countenance of a wo- man and the body of a lion ; or that 38 B. I. HISTORY OF EGYPT .
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... body of a lion ; or that the people of India were ever such mons- ters and giants as the statues and idols might indicate , which are found in the caverns and ancient temples of that country . " If we be not able to describe exactly the ...
... body of a lion ; or that the people of India were ever such mons- ters and giants as the statues and idols might indicate , which are found in the caverns and ancient temples of that country . " If we be not able to describe exactly the ...
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... bodies . The largest pyramid of Giza , the size of which we have attempt- ed to describe , is the only one of those huge masses whose interior parts ap- pear to have been examined . No exte- rior aperture seems to have been left ; and ...
... bodies . The largest pyramid of Giza , the size of which we have attempt- ed to describe , is the only one of those huge masses whose interior parts ap- pear to have been examined . No exte- rior aperture seems to have been left ; and ...
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... body of an am- bitious prince ? The trough , or sarco- phagus may have been designed for some religious purpose ; and the tapering form of the pyramids might be made to imi- tate the flame of fire which the east- ern nations early ...
... body of an am- bitious prince ? The trough , or sarco- phagus may have been designed for some religious purpose ; and the tapering form of the pyramids might be made to imi- tate the flame of fire which the east- ern nations early ...
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Page 183 - And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
Page 26 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 185 - Scriptures contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age, or in any idiom.
Page 162 - Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets : and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Page xvii - It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the...
Page 186 - The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian, learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts ; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief, that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired*.
Page 39 - SPHINX. A monster, having the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, and the paws of a lion.
Page 182 - Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales...
Page 407 - Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. To the great beauty and gracefulness of her person, Cleopatra added the attractions of wit, affable manners, and high mental acquirements. Amid the pleasures and avocations of a court, she ceased not to cultivate learning; and, in addressing ambassadors of different languages, she astonished them with the correctness and fluency of her diction. If you say of this great woman that it was by ambition and passion that she finally lost her power and...
Page 1 - The History of Egypt; from the earliest Accounts of that Country, till the Expulsion of the French from Alexandria, in the Year 1801.