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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... whole ele- ments are violent in their operation ; and there is occasionally experienced a hot and suffocating wind , which excites terror and spreads desolation . It is known by the names of the Sumiel , the Simoom , the Chamsin , or ...
... whole ele- ments are violent in their operation ; and there is occasionally experienced a hot and suffocating wind , which excites terror and spreads desolation . It is known by the names of the Sumiel , the Simoom , the Chamsin , or ...
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... whole of its productive powers are owing to the black mould , which the waters have lodged , and the inun- dations of the Nile , which overflow the land . In practicable situations , where the natural overflowing cannot reach , the ...
... whole of its productive powers are owing to the black mould , which the waters have lodged , and the inun- dations of the Nile , which overflow the land . In practicable situations , where the natural overflowing cannot reach , the ...
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... whole years without rain , and such circumstances do still occasion- ally recur in the east , when , according to the bold language of description , there is neither rain nor dew to mois- ten the earth . If thunder in our regular ...
... whole years without rain , and such circumstances do still occasion- ally recur in the east , when , according to the bold language of description , there is neither rain nor dew to mois- ten the earth . If thunder in our regular ...
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... whole , than the overthrow of a cottage , when put in competition with the stately surround- ing fabrics , which have resisted the storm or defied the flood . f f Of the changing tendency of creation , see Dr. Ro- bison's Mechan . Phil ...
... whole , than the overthrow of a cottage , when put in competition with the stately surround- ing fabrics , which have resisted the storm or defied the flood . f f Of the changing tendency of creation , see Dr. Ro- bison's Mechan . Phil ...
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... whole attire was splendid and sumptuous , and they delighted also in changes of rai- ment . The accounts of ancient history , as well as the continued practice of the east , sufficiently assure us , that , suitably to the warmth of the ...
... whole attire was splendid and sumptuous , and they delighted also in changes of rai- ment . The accounts of ancient history , as well as the continued practice of the east , sufficiently assure us , that , suitably to the warmth of the ...
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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 120 - Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.
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 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 120 - Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
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 407 - I shall ask you of how many thousands of male monarchs has the same thing been more than true ? Cleopatra was born in troublesome times, and drew her first breath in the contagion of a licentious court ; while in tender years, she was raised to the seducing eminence of a throne, and surrounded by a crowd of flatterers, who neither dared to reprove nor desired to correct the increasing follies of her conduct. As a beauty, she was admired ; as a queen, she was addressed with adulation ; and possessing...
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 54 - And there was seen a great sign in heaven. A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.