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... and the natural love of mysticism , acting on the minds of people who have been the victims of a long course of systematic misgovernment and oppression , have overthrown kings and deluged whole countries with blood .
... and the natural love of mysticism , acting on the minds of people who have been the victims of a long course of systematic misgovernment and oppression , have overthrown kings and deluged whole countries with blood .
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VII . Egypt under the Saïtes , Persians , and Ptolemies . Vol . VIII . Egypt under the Ptolemies and Cleopatra VII . With Vol . I. The Book Åm - Tuat . Vol. full Index to the whole work . which is called serekh.
VII . Egypt under the Saïtes , Persians , and Ptolemies . Vol . VIII . Egypt under the Ptolemies and Cleopatra VII . With Vol . I. The Book Åm - Tuat . Vol. full Index to the whole work . which is called serekh.
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The Greek and Roman writers upon Egypt are many ; and of these the best known are Herodotus , Manetho , and Diodorus Siculus . Herodotus devotes the whole of the second and the beginning of the third 20 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT .
The Greek and Roman writers upon Egypt are many ; and of these the best known are Herodotus , Manetho , and Diodorus Siculus . Herodotus devotes the whole of the second and the beginning of the third 20 NOTES FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT .
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whole of the second and the beginning of the third book of his work to a history of Egypt and the Egyptians , and his is the oldest Greek treatise on the subject known to us . In spite of the attacks made upon his work during the last ...
whole of the second and the beginning of the third book of his work to a history of Egypt and the Egyptians , and his is the oldest Greek treatise on the subject known to us . In spite of the attacks made upon his work during the last ...
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During their rule Egypt was divided into two parts , each ruled by its own king ; and the whole of Upper and Lower Egypt was divided into a large series of small , independent principalities , which were united under one head in the ...
During their rule Egypt was divided into two parts , each ruled by its own king ; and the whole of Upper and Lower Egypt was divided into a large series of small , independent principalities , which were united under one head in the ...
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Page 412 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 370 - 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 117 - His Britannic Majesty's Government declare that they have no intention of altering the political status of Egypt. The Government of the French Republic, for their part, declare that they will not obstruct the action of Great Britain in that country by asking that a limit of time be fixed for the British occupation or in any other manner...
Page 339 - Sirat. which they say is laid over the midst of hell, and described to be finer than a hair, and sharper than the edge of a sword...
Page 379 - 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 destroyed.
Page 13 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 411 - And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Page 13 - God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Page 13 - For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Nile-- notes for travellers in Egypt |
| Author | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge |
| Publisher | T. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 |
| Length | 955 pages |
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