The Nile: Notes for Travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt) Limited, 1901 - 671 pages |
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Abydos Alexandria Amen Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Berber body building built Cæsar Cairo called canal cartouches Cataract century chamber Christians church coffin and mummy columns contains Coptic Copts Dêr Dervishes early east bank Egyptian Ethiopians excavations famous Gebel Barkal Gizeh gods granite Greek Hathor hieroglyphics Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions interesting Isis island Karnak Khartûm king Lake land large number limestone lord Luxor Mahdi Mariette Memphis Meroë miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum Napata Nekht Nile nome Nubia offerings Osiris Pâsha Philæ pillars priests Ptaḥ Ptolemy Ptolemy IX pylon pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins Sakkârah sarcophagus scenes sculptures Seti shrine side sphinxes statue stele stone Strabo Sûdân Suez temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî Ḥalfah walls west bank worship XIIth dynasty XVIIIth
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Page 244 - PRAISE be to God, the Lord of all creatures, the most merciful, the king of the day of judgment. Thee do we worship, and of thee do we beg assistance. Direct us in the right way, in the way of those to whom thou hast been gracious ; not of those against whom thou art incensed, nor of those who go astray...
Page 191 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry...
Page 183 - Isis once more sets out in search of the scattered fragments of her husband's body, making use of a boat made of the reed Papyrus in order the more easily to pass thro...
Page 172 - Hail to .thee, maker of all beings, Lord of law, father of the gods ; maker of men, creator of beasts ; Lord of grains, making food for the beast of the field The One alone without a second King alone, single among the gods; of many names, unknown is their number.
Page 250 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved • if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be de stroyed.
Page 264 - Bubastis, they celebrate the feast, offering up great sacrifices ; and more wine is consumed at this festival than in all the rest of the year. What with men and women, besides children, they congregate, as the inhabitants say, to the number of seven hundred thousand.
Page 326 - That it is made by hand and dry, this circumstance proves, for about the middle of the lake stand two pyramids, each rising fifty orgyae above the surface of the water, and the part built under water extends to an equal depth : on each of these is placed a stone statue, seated on a throne.
Page 288 - ... ten years were expended, and in forming the subterraneous apartments on the hill, on which the pyramids stand, which he had made as a burial vault for himself, in an island, formed by draining a canal from the Nile.
Page 219 - God. Say, God is one God ; the eternal God; he begetteth not, neither is he begotten : and there is not any one like unto him.