The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Accounts of that Country, Till the Expulsion of the French from Alexandria, in the Year 1801, Volym 1A. Constable & Company, 1805 |
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... a dam- sel should arrive with a pitcher , whom b Park's Travels , p . 266 , & c .; Genesis , ch . xxviii . 7. 18 , & c .; and ch . xxxiv , v . 11 , 12 , & c ¢ he might choose for a wife to Isaac , the 68 B. I. HISTORY OF EGYPT .
... a dam- sel should arrive with a pitcher , whom b Park's Travels , p . 266 , & c .; Genesis , ch . xxviii . 7. 18 , & c .; and ch . xxxiv , v . 11 , 12 , & c ¢ he might choose for a wife to Isaac , the 68 B. I. HISTORY OF EGYPT .
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... arrived , or of the nation to which they belonged , that some have supposed they were the descend- ants of Jacob , who dwelt for a while in Egypt ; others have maintained that they were people of Canaan , who fled from Joshua ; while ...
... arrived , or of the nation to which they belonged , that some have supposed they were the descend- ants of Jacob , who dwelt for a while in Egypt ; others have maintained that they were people of Canaan , who fled from Joshua ; while ...
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... arrived , a shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians and hence we learn that the Israelites and the shepherds were not the same people . * His Osymandias was powerful in war and illustrious in peace . He reduced to obe- dience some ...
... arrived , a shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians and hence we learn that the Israelites and the shepherds were not the same people . * His Osymandias was powerful in war and illustrious in peace . He reduced to obe- dience some ...
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... arrived at Troy . Before an explanation could be received from Egypt , the bold and indignant Greeks sailed with a powerful fleet , and lighted up the flame of war , which lasted ten years , and was not ex- tinguished but in the ruins ...
... arrived at Troy . Before an explanation could be received from Egypt , the bold and indignant Greeks sailed with a powerful fleet , and lighted up the flame of war , which lasted ten years , and was not ex- tinguished but in the ruins ...
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... arrived , the names of a few kings have been inserted ; but they are accompanied with surmises of so diver- sified and doubtful a nature , that they are unworthy , either of description or confidence . Then there is presented a space of ...
... arrived , the names of a few kings have been inserted ; but they are accompanied with surmises of so diver- sified and doubtful a nature , that they are unworthy , either of description or confidence . Then there is presented a space of ...
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The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Accounts of that Country ..., Volym 1 James Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1805 |
The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Accounts of that Country ..., Volym 1 James Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1805 |
The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Accounts of that Country ..., Volym 1 James Wilson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1805 |
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Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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.
Sida xvii - It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the east by the...
Sida 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*.
Sida 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.
Sida 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...
Sida 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...
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