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... Egypt , who reigned about 285 years before Christ , and who was a monarch of great liberality , and a munificent patron of learn- ing , having erected a grand library at Alexandria , which he intended to enrich with all the curious and ...
... Egypt , who reigned about 285 years before Christ , and who was a monarch of great liberality , and a munificent patron of learn- ing , having erected a grand library at Alexandria , which he intended to enrich with all the curious and ...
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... Egyptian priests , as far as we learn from Pythagoras and Aristotle , who gleaned part of their information from them , was by no means so scien- tific . From Aristotle downwards , a very incomplete arrangement of the animal kingdom ...
... Egyptian priests , as far as we learn from Pythagoras and Aristotle , who gleaned part of their information from them , was by no means so scien- tific . From Aristotle downwards , a very incomplete arrangement of the animal kingdom ...
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... Egypt we know almost nothing . Of its numerous treatises , one papyrus- roll alone remains - the Book of the Dead - in which a disembodied soul is represented offering prayers and hymns to Osiris , and at last obtains forgiveness for ...
... Egypt we know almost nothing . Of its numerous treatises , one papyrus- roll alone remains - the Book of the Dead - in which a disembodied soul is represented offering prayers and hymns to Osiris , and at last obtains forgiveness for ...
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... Egypt and that of Greece . The for- mer was all secresy - the latter was all publicity ; the temples of Egypt were shrouded from public gaze , by lofty encircling walls - the shrines of Greece were ever open to the footstep of the wor ...
... Egypt and that of Greece . The for- mer was all secresy - the latter was all publicity ; the temples of Egypt were shrouded from public gaze , by lofty encircling walls - the shrines of Greece were ever open to the footstep of the wor ...
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... Egypt , sprang neither from tradition nor from su- perstition unlike that of China , it was no fiction of political science . It was the work of poets . In Homer , in the earliest yet grandest epic of Greece , the system is already ...
... Egypt , sprang neither from tradition nor from su- perstition unlike that of China , it was no fiction of political science . It was the work of poets . In Homer , in the earliest yet grandest epic of Greece , the system is already ...
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Page 31 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 251 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 203 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 7 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 28 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 250 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 244 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 268 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 31 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?