The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... worship of Apis at Memphis , and that of Mnevis at Heliopolis , was continued . 4066. Ba - en - neter , in whose reign , according to John of Antioch , the Nile flowed with honey for eleven days . During the reign of this king the suc ...
... worship of Apis at Memphis , and that of Mnevis at Heliopolis , was continued . 4066. Ba - en - neter , in whose reign , according to John of Antioch , the Nile flowed with honey for eleven days . During the reign of this king the suc ...
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... worship of Amen . 1566. Àmen - hetep II . Son of Thothmes III . and Ḥāt- shepset , the daughter of the great queen of the same name . He made an expedition into Syria , and slew seven chiefs with his own hand . Two statues of this king ...
... worship of Amen . 1566. Àmen - hetep II . Son of Thothmes III . and Ḥāt- shepset , the daughter of the great queen of the same name . He made an expedition into Syria , and slew seven chiefs with his own hand . Two statues of this king ...
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... worship was Åten mm , i.e. , the solar disk , which was regarded as the source of all things . The religion appears to have been a sort of glori- fied materialism , and the ceremonies connected with it were similar to those of the old ...
... worship was Åten mm , i.e. , the solar disk , which was regarded as the source of all things . The religion appears to have been a sort of glori- fied materialism , and the ceremonies connected with it were similar to those of the old ...
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... worship is paid daily . " When thou hast arrived at years of maturity , and art married and hast a house , forget never the pains which thou hast cost thy mother , nor the care which she hath bestowed upon thee . Never give her cause to ...
... worship is paid daily . " When thou hast arrived at years of maturity , and art married and hast a house , forget never the pains which thou hast cost thy mother , nor the care which she hath bestowed upon thee . Never give her cause to ...
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... worship of a newborn , an infant Deity , to draw his inadequate similes from the conjugal or civil partnerships of life , and to describe the manhood of Christ , as the robe , the instrument , the tabernacle of his Godhead . " - Gibbon ...
... worship of a newborn , an infant Deity , to draw his inadequate similes from the conjugal or civil partnerships of life , and to describe the manhood of Christ , as the robe , the instrument , the tabernacle of his Godhead . " - Gibbon ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abû Abydos Alexandria Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Atbara Barrage Blue Nile body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber chapel Christians church columns Coptic Copts corvée Dêr Dervishes desert east excavations famous feet Gebel Barkal gods Government granite Greek Ḥalfa Hathor hieroglyphic Horus Hyksos inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak Khalifa Khartûm king Lake land large number Luxor Mariette Memphis Meroë metres miles from Cairo mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum natives Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ period Philæ pillars priests probably Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid railway Rameses Rameses II reign river Roman royal ruins sarcophagus Sawâkin scenes Seti shrine side statue stele stone Sûdân Suez suten temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen Wâdî walls west bank White Nile worship XIIth XVIIIth dynasty
Popular passages
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.