The Great Events by Famous Historians ...National Alumni, 1905 - 380 pages |
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... reign over all Egypt was Menes , the founder of Memphis . As the gate of Africa , Egypt has always held an important position in world - politics . Its an- cient wealth and power were enormous . Inclusive of the Soudan , its population ...
... reign over all Egypt was Menes , the founder of Memphis . As the gate of Africa , Egypt has always held an important position in world - politics . Its an- cient wealth and power were enormous . Inclusive of the Soudan , its population ...
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... reign of Khufu or Cheops is marked by the building of the great pyramid . The pyramids were the tombs of kings , built in the necropolis of Memphis , ten miles above the modern Cairo . Security was the object as well as splendor . As ...
... reign of Khufu or Cheops is marked by the building of the great pyramid . The pyramids were the tombs of kings , built in the necropolis of Memphis , ten miles above the modern Cairo . Security was the object as well as splendor . As ...
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... reign of the human dynasties . Thinis figured in the historic period as one of the least of Egyptian cities . It barely maintained an existence on the left bank of the Nile , if not on the exact spot now occupied by Girgeh , at least ...
... reign of the human dynasties . Thinis figured in the historic period as one of the least of Egyptian cities . It barely maintained an existence on the left bank of the Nile , if not on the exact spot now occupied by Girgeh , at least ...
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... reign of sixty - two years he was killed by a hippopotamus which came forth from the Nile . They also relate that ... reigns almost to a day , sometimes the length of their lives , but we may well ask whence the chroniclers procured so ...
... reign of sixty - two years he was killed by a hippopotamus which came forth from the Nile . They also relate that ... reigns almost to a day , sometimes the length of their lives , but we may well ask whence the chroniclers procured so ...
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... reign of the Boethos a gulf had opened near Bubastis , and swallowed up many people , then the Nile had flowed with honey for fifteen days in the time of Nephercheres , and Sesochris was supposed to have been a giant in stature . A few ...
... reign of the Boethos a gulf had opened near Bubastis , and swallowed up many people , then the Nile had flowed with honey for fifteen days in the time of Nephercheres , and Sesochris was supposed to have been a giant in stature . A few ...
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Page 99 - Jacob selah lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in...
Page 100 - ... it came even to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever...
Page 100 - But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee ; how much less this house which I have built...
Page 171 - I not already, on former occasions, told you that it is in the very nature of all things most near and dear unto us that we must divide ourselves from them, leave them, sever ourselves from them? How, then, Ananda, can this be possible - whereas anything whatever born, brought into being, and organized, contains within itself the inherent necessity of dissolution - how, then, can this be possible, that such a being should not be dissolved. No such condition can exist!
Page 100 - And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord. So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.
Page 293 - If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.
Page 276 - if, indeed; the prince be not prince, the minister not minister, the father not father, and the son not son, although I have my revenue, can I enjoy it?
Page 347 - The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow; The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear; Mountains above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below; Death in the front, Destruction in the rear! Such was the scene— what now remaineth here?
Page 280 - Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors, is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.
Page 183 - Sometimes this tendency to religious fraternity took a form called an Amphictyony, different from the common festival. A certain number of towns entered into an exclusive religious partnership for the celebration of sacrifices periodically to the god of a particular temple, which was supposed to be the common property and under the common protection of all, though one of the number was often named as permanent administrator; while all other Greeks were excluded.