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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... Ptolemy Lagus acquires the sovereignty of Egypt . B. C. 336 . IT T was during the reign of Da- rius Codomanus that Alexan- der the Great burst victorious into the empire of Persia . He was the son of Philip king of Macedon , who raised ...
... Ptolemy Lagus acquires the sovereignty of Egypt . B. C. 336 . IT T was during the reign of Da- rius Codomanus that Alexan- der the Great burst victorious into the empire of Persia . He was the son of Philip king of Macedon , who raised ...
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... Ptolemy , the son of Lagus . As it is with his govern- ment that our present inquiries are more immediately connected , we shall take our station in Egypt , and observe the transactions of Alexander's successors , as far as they are ...
... Ptolemy , the son of Lagus . As it is with his govern- ment that our present inquiries are more immediately connected , we shall take our station in Egypt , and observe the transactions of Alexander's successors , as far as they are ...
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... Ptolemy had raised himself high in the esteem of the Egyptians ; and his fame drew stran- gers to his standard . Firm in his strength , and secure in the love of his army , he saw the approach of Perdiccas without many emotions of fear ...
... Ptolemy had raised himself high in the esteem of the Egyptians ; and his fame drew stran- gers to his standard . Firm in his strength , and secure in the love of his army , he saw the approach of Perdiccas without many emotions of fear ...
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... Ptolemy entered it on the fol- lowing morning , performed many of- fices of compassion , and received as friends the remainder of the army . To Arideus and young Alexander , who were in the camp of Perdiccas , he shew- ed many marks of ...
... Ptolemy entered it on the fol- lowing morning , performed many of- fices of compassion , and received as friends the remainder of the army . To Arideus and young Alexander , who were in the camp of Perdiccas , he shew- ed many marks of ...
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... Ptolemy in a rage marched to Jerusalem ; but he found the city strong by nature , and well fortified by art ; for the repeated kindness of the Persian kings had enabled them to re- build and put it into an excellent state of defence ...
... Ptolemy in a rage marched to Jerusalem ; but he found the city strong by nature , and well fortified by art ; for the repeated kindness of the Persian kings had enabled them to re- build and put it into an excellent state of defence ...
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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.