The Nile-- notes for travellers in EgyptT. Cook & Son (Egypt), 1907 - 955 pages |
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... part built under water extends to an equal depth ; on each of these is placed a stone statue , seated on a throne . Thus these pyramids are 100 orgyæ ( 600 feet ) in height ; and 100 orgyæ are equal to a stade of 6 plethra ; the orgya ...
... part built under water extends to an equal depth ; on each of these is placed a stone statue , seated on a throne . Thus these pyramids are 100 orgyæ ( 600 feet ) in height ; and 100 orgyæ are equal to a stade of 6 plethra ; the orgya ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abû Abydos Alexandria Åmen Amenophis Amenophis III ancient Egyptian Arabs Aswân Barrage beautiful body British building built Cairo called canal capital Cataract chamber Christians church colour comest Coptic Copts corvée dead deceased Dêr east excavations famous father feet festival Gebel Gizah goddess gods granite Greek Hail hath Hathor head hieroglyphic honour Horus Hyksos inhabitants inscribed inscriptions Isis Karnak king Kur'ân Lake land large number lived lord Luxor Majesty Manetho Mariette Mecca Memphis metres miles month mosque Muḥammad Muḥammadan mummy Museum Nekht Nile nome Nubia Oasis Osiris papyrus Pâshâ patriarch piastres pillars Port Sa'id prayer priests Prophet Ptaḥ Ptolemy pylon pyramid Rameses Rameses II reign river sarcophagus says scenes shrine side sphinxes statue stele stone Sûdân Suez temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou tomb town Upper Egypt Usertsen walls 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.
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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