The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Greeks, Volym 1James, John and Paul Knapton, 1734 |
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Sida xvii
... with Violence ( I speak of the Pagan World ) and the Receptacle of Men ungrateful and perfidious , as in the Times of the Deluge . chy foo b NEVER . NEVERTHELESS the fovereign Arbiter of the World , who , The PREFACE . xvii.
... with Violence ( I speak of the Pagan World ) and the Receptacle of Men ungrateful and perfidious , as in the Times of the Deluge . chy foo b NEVER . NEVERTHELESS the fovereign Arbiter of the World , who , The PREFACE . xvii.
Sida xxxiv
... never used it but as Fathers , that is , with a great deal of Mode- ration . Little jealous of their Power , they never thought to domineer , nor imperiously to decide . As they found themselves neceffa- rily obliged to take in others ...
... never used it but as Fathers , that is , with a great deal of Mode- ration . Little jealous of their Power , they never thought to domineer , nor imperiously to decide . As they found themselves neceffa- rily obliged to take in others ...
Sida 6
... never been feen . Ibid . c . 9 . EVERY part of Egypt abounded with this kind of obelifks ; they were for the moft part cut in the quar- ries of Upper Egypt , where fome are now to be feen half finished . But the most wonderful ...
... never been feen . Ibid . c . 9 . EVERY part of Egypt abounded with this kind of obelifks ; they were for the moft part cut in the quar- ries of Upper Egypt , where fome are now to be feen half finished . But the most wonderful ...
Sida 13
... never implore Jupiter for rain . Te propter nullos tellus tua poftulat imbres Arida nec pluvio fupplicat herba Jovi To multiply fo beneficent a river , Egypt was cut into numberless canals , of a length and breadth pro- portioned to the ...
... never implore Jupiter for rain . Te propter nullos tellus tua poftulat imbres Arida nec pluvio fupplicat herba Jovi To multiply fo beneficent a river , Egypt was cut into numberless canals , of a length and breadth pro- portioned to the ...
Sida 20
... never tires him- felf with holding the plough , or breaking the clods of earth . As foon as the Nile retires , he has nothing to do but to turn up the earth , and temper it with a little fand , in order to leffen its ranknefs ; after ...
... never tires him- felf with holding the plough , or breaking the clods of earth . As foon as the Nile retires , he has nothing to do but to turn up the earth , and temper it with a little fand , in order to leffen its ranknefs ; after ...
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Sida 88 - Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, "Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power : help us, O Lord our God ; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
Sida 22 - 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...
Sida 107 - ... thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life...
Sida 49 - Egyptian language ; and this first gave the hint to Orpheus, who had been in Egypt, and after him, to the other Greeks, to invent the fiction of Charon's boat. As soon as a man was dead, he was brought to his trial. The public accuser was heard. If he proved that the deceased had led a bad life, his memory was condemned, and he was deprived of burial. The people...
Sida 88 - Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD; it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God: let not man prevail against thee.
Sida 46 - ... having changed the glory of the incorruptible God, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Sida 22 - ... visible ; all which forms a delightful prospect. This view is bounded by mountains and woods, which terminate, at the utmost distance the eye can discover, the most beautiful horizon that can be imagined. On the contrary, in winter, that is to say, in the months of January and February, the whole country is like one continued scene of beautiful meadows, whose verdure, enamelled with flowers, charms the eye.
Sida 105 - Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.
Sida viii - I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man : and my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people ; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth ; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.
Sida 23 - ... on every side, flocks and herds dispersed over all the plains, with infinite numbers of husbandmen and gardeners. The air is then perfumed by the great quantity of blossoms on the orange, lemon, and other trees; and is so pure, that a wholesomer or more agreeable is not found in the world; so that nature, being then dead, as it were, in all other climates, seems to be alive only for so delightful an abode.