Early Egyptian History for the Young: With Descriptions of the Tombs and MonumentsMacmillan and Company, 1861 - 434 pages History of Egypt told in a series of letters to "my dear boys." |
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... picture of this place for ever in your minds . On this plain , covered now with grass and durah stubble , on the site of the squalid village we passed through , on the spot where those palm - trees are grow- ing , once stood the great ...
... picture of this place for ever in your minds . On this plain , covered now with grass and durah stubble , on the site of the squalid village we passed through , on the spot where those palm - trees are grow- ing , once stood the great ...
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... picture of a gentleman going out hunting , and on the other sat a serene lady , in an elegantly formed chair , smelling a lotus flower . The story of their lives was written above and below on the walls . We might have read it if we had ...
... picture of a gentleman going out hunting , and on the other sat a serene lady , in an elegantly formed chair , smelling a lotus flower . The story of their lives was written above and below on the walls . We might have read it if we had ...
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... picture - writing here , on the walls or on the tombs , only each sarcophagus had on one side of it a small granite oval , called a cartouche , with the name written on it of the king in whose reign the sacred Apis died . When we came ...
... picture - writing here , on the walls or on the tombs , only each sarcophagus had on one side of it a small granite oval , called a cartouche , with the name written on it of the king in whose reign the sacred Apis died . When we came ...
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... pictures , graven on the stone of which the tomb is built , and painted . There is hieroglyphic writing as well as pictures - we might call it picture - writing , for look how carefully each letter is made . That duck is a syllable ...
... pictures , graven on the stone of which the tomb is built , and painted . There is hieroglyphic writing as well as pictures - we might call it picture - writing , for look how carefully each letter is made . That duck is a syllable ...
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... picture which represents the house . That man has just killed it , and the others are cutting it up . See one of them is sharpening his knife - a bronze knife on a steel rod . Close by is a picture of the meat being cooked . A large ...
... picture which represents the house . That man has just killed it , and the others are cutting it up . See one of them is sharpening his knife - a bronze knife on a steel rod . Close by is a picture of the meat being cooked . A large ...
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Amasis Amen-em-an Amenemha Amenti Amun Amunoph ancient Egyptians Anubis Apepi Apis appears Apries army beautiful boat body brought Bubastis built called Cambyses chamber chariot cloth court curious dark dead death deity desert Diospolite donkeys dynasty Egypt Egyptian history Egyptian king eighteenth dynasty emblem Ethiopian father feast goddess gods Greek head Heliopolis Heracleopolite Herodotus hieroglyphic Hittites honour Horus Ichthyophagi inscription Isis Karnac land letter lived look Lord Manetho Memphis Menes monuments mummy Nile nineteenth dynasty nomarch obelisks Osiris painted passed perhaps Pharaoh picture pillars Plutarch priests probably Psammetichus Pthah pylons Pyramid Rameses records reign represented river rock round royal ruins sacred animals sand says scribe sculptures Sesertasen Sesostris Sethi Shepherds side soul sphinxes standing statue stone story supposed tell temple Thebes thee Thothmes thou thought throne told tombs twelfth dynasty walls wonder worshipped writing
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Page 227 - Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
Page 297 - LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. So the LORD smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.
Page 295 - Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Page 295 - I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Page 311 - But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war : for God commanded me to make haste : forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
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Page 297 - And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.
Page 67 - So when they had gotten those that governed us under their power, they afterwards burnt down our cities, and demolished the temples of the gods, and used all the inhabitants after a most barbarous manner ; nay, some they slew, and led their children and their wives into slavery.
Page 314 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Page 297 - Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour. 9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.