The Glory of the PharaohsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923 - 338 pages |
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Page vii
... body through the dry bones and then making others see it also , " and as being " not merely accurate , but truthful with the truth that comes only from insight and broadminded grasp of essential facts , added to exhaustive study and ...
... body through the dry bones and then making others see it also , " and as being " not merely accurate , but truthful with the truth that comes only from insight and broadminded grasp of essential facts , added to exhaustive study and ...
Page 6
... body becomes toughened and prepared for any necessary spurt of work . To rough it in the open is the best medicine for tired heads , as it is the finest tonic for brains in a normal condition . In parenthesis an explanation must be ...
... body becomes toughened and prepared for any necessary spurt of work . To rough it in the open is the best medicine for tired heads , as it is the finest tonic for brains in a normal condition . In parenthesis an explanation must be ...
Page 38
... body , may skip about and clap its hands . A portly gentleman with a solemn face , reading his " Punch " or his " Life " in the club , is , after all , giving play to precisely those same humours which in ancient days might have led him ...
... body , may skip about and clap its hands . A portly gentleman with a solemn face , reading his " Punch " or his " Life " in the club , is , after all , giving play to precisely those same humours which in ancient days might have led him ...
Page 48
... body which bowed the knee to him was feared throughout all the countries neighbouring to Egypt . The main cause of Wenamon's troubles was the lack of appreciation of this fact that the god's influence in Syria was not as great as it had ...
... body which bowed the knee to him was feared throughout all the countries neighbouring to Egypt . The main cause of Wenamon's troubles was the lack of appreciation of this fact that the god's influence in Syria was not as great as it had ...
Page 85
... body with the head rent from the shoulders , there are the shattered re- mains of priceless vases believed by the robbers to have been of no great value . It is as though the place had been visited at full moon by demented monkeys ...
... body with the head rent from the shoulders , there are the shattered re- mains of priceless vases believed by the robbers to have been of no great value . It is as though the place had been visited at full moon by demented monkeys ...
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Page 281 - The highest hopes we cherish here, How fast they tire and faint ; How many a spot defiles the robe That wraps an earthly saint...
Page 45 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Page 89 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Page 92 - Mummy is become merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams.
Page 164 - When thou hast raised them up. Their limbs bathed, they take their clothing, Their arms uplifted in adoration to thy dawning. (Then) in all the world they do their work.
Page 324 - Antiquity deserveth that reverence, that men should make a stand thereupon, and discover what is the best way; but when the discovery is well taken, then to make progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrograde, by a computation backward from ourselves.
Page 154 - Are you sure that the bones you sent me are those which were found in the tomb ? Instead of the bones of an old woman, you have sent me those of a young man. Surely there is some mistake.
Page 324 - ... for as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those the most remote from it?
Page 121 - Come, spend this festival day And to-morrow and the day after to-morrow . . Sitting in my shadow. Thy companion sits at thy right hand, Thou dost make him drink, And then thou dost follow what he says . . . I am of a silent nature And I do not tell what I see I do not chatter.
Page 164 - ... flourish, The birds flutter in their marshes, their wings uplifted in adoration to Thee. All the sheep dance upon their feet, all winged things fly, They live when Thou hast shone upon them.