The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Volume 2D. Appleton and Company, 1866 |
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... Rule of the gods - Name of Menes ; supposed to be Miz- raim - Believed to be a real person by the Egyptians , and to have founded Memphis . This and Memphis - Egyptians from Asia - Memphis older than Thebes . Precedence of Upper Egypt ...
... Rule of the gods - Name of Menes ; supposed to be Miz- raim - Believed to be a real person by the Egyptians , and to have founded Memphis . This and Memphis - Egyptians from Asia - Memphis older than Thebes . Precedence of Upper Egypt ...
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... rule and religion , knowing that blind obedience to the priests did not signify obedience to the divine will ; but these vested rights on man's credulity seem to have been afterwards revived among the Ethiopians , and the expedition ...
... rule and religion , knowing that blind obedience to the priests did not signify obedience to the divine will ; but these vested rights on man's credulity seem to have been afterwards revived among the Ethiopians , and the expedition ...
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... rules , which cramped genius and prevented im- provement ; the invention of real history ; the establishment of taste in arts and literature ; and that development of the mind for which modern nations are so much beholden to them . In ...
... rules , which cramped genius and prevented im- provement ; the invention of real history ; the establishment of taste in arts and literature ; and that development of the mind for which modern nations are so much beholden to them . In ...
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... rules instituted to ensure it . Herodotus soon afterwards says the priests washed themselves twice every day and twice every night in cold water ; and Porphyry ( de Abstin . iv . 7 ) , besides three ablutions every day , and an ...
... rules instituted to ensure it . Herodotus soon afterwards says the priests washed themselves twice every day and twice every night in cold water ; and Porphyry ( de Abstin . iv . 7 ) , besides three ablutions every day , and an ...
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... rule , and not their own office for the benefit of the community . Priestcraft indeed is always odious , but especially when people are taught to believe what the priests themselves know to be mere fable ; and the remark of Cato , " It ...
... rule , and not their own office for the benefit of the community . Priestcraft indeed is always odious , but especially when people are taught to believe what the priests themselves know to be mere fable ; and the remark of Cato , " It ...
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Page 158 - From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
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Page 43 - The Nasamonians could not understand a word of .their language, nor had they any acquaintance with the language of the Nasamonians. They were led across extensive marshes, and finally came to a town, where all the men were of the height of their conductors, and black-complexioned. A great river flowed by the town, running from west to east, and containing crocodiles.