The Storehouses of the King: Or, The Pyramids of Egypt, what They Are, and who Built ThemW.H. Allen & Company, 1885 - 308 pages |
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... whole valley becomes a lake , from which the villages rise like islands , for they are built on artificial mounds . The land of Egypt is by nature a rainless desert , which the Nile , the mys- terious Nile only , converts into a ...
... whole valley becomes a lake , from which the villages rise like islands , for they are built on artificial mounds . The land of Egypt is by nature a rainless desert , which the Nile , the mys- terious Nile only , converts into a ...
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... whole structure of the Temple was made , with great skill , of polished stones , laid together so very harmoniously and smoothly that there appeared to the spectators no signs of any hammer , or other instrument of architecture , but as ...
... whole structure of the Temple was made , with great skill , of polished stones , laid together so very harmoniously and smoothly that there appeared to the spectators no signs of any hammer , or other instrument of architecture , but as ...
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... whole re- ceptacle was well filled with the corn , which was as plentiful as the sand of the sea , then all the apertures were stopped with stones , like stoppers of bottles , made for the purpose . The side steps were then encased ...
... whole re- ceptacle was well filled with the corn , which was as plentiful as the sand of the sea , then all the apertures were stopped with stones , like stoppers of bottles , made for the purpose . The side steps were then encased ...
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... whole of this struc- ture was made , with great skill , of stones , and those laid together so very harmoniously and smoothly that there appeared to the spectators no signs of any ham- mer or other instrument of architecture , but as if ...
... whole of this struc- ture was made , with great skill , of stones , and those laid together so very harmoniously and smoothly that there appeared to the spectators no signs of any ham- mer or other instrument of architecture , but as if ...
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... whole Egyptian army was within it , the sea flowed to its own place , and came down with a torrent raised by storms of wind , and encompassed the Egyptians . Showers of rain also came down from the sky , and dreadful thunder and ...
... whole Egyptian army was within it , the sea flowed to its own place , and came down with a torrent raised by storms of wind , and encompassed the Egyptians . Showers of rain also came down from the sky , and dreadful thunder and ...
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THE STOREHOUSES OF THE KING: THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT WHAT THEY ARE AND WHO ... Jane van Gelder Limited preview - 2014 |
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Page 306 - And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt...
Page 296 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 192 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the people According to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 11 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 11 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 193 - And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very fro ward generation, Children in whom is no faith.
Page 3 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Page 114 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life : and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heeL...
Page 12 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.
Page 112 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.