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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... soul of their god Pthah Sokar Osiris . When the bull died , they thought the soul took to itself a new form , and the respect they paid to the dead body was perhaps designed to show the grief they felt during the time that Osiris ...
... soul of their god Pthah Sokar Osiris . When the bull died , they thought the soul took to itself a new form , and the respect they paid to the dead body was perhaps designed to show the grief they felt during the time that Osiris ...
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... soul after death , and in the resurrection of the body ; we know from their sacred books , that this belief was con- nected with faith in Higher Powers , and with some true and beautiful thoughts about them ; but in all the carefully ...
... soul after death , and in the resurrection of the body ; we know from their sacred books , that this belief was con- nected with faith in Higher Powers , and with some true and beautiful thoughts about them ; but in all the carefully ...
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... land , and question his soul , to see if it be pure from the special sin of which the questioner is judge . Woe betide him , if he have not an answer for each ! At the foot of the staircase , Sethi enters on EGYPTIAN HISTORY . 197.
... land , and question his soul , to see if it be pure from the special sin of which the questioner is judge . Woe betide him , if he have not an answer for each ! At the foot of the staircase , Sethi enters on EGYPTIAN HISTORY . 197.
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... soul , so as to enable it to come off victorious in these sharp encounters that it will have to wage , naked and alone ? Perhaps Sethi , as he looks , vaguely searches his memory for records of such inward contests , and thinks that he ...
... soul , so as to enable it to come off victorious in these sharp encounters that it will have to wage , naked and alone ? Perhaps Sethi , as he looks , vaguely searches his memory for records of such inward contests , and thinks that he ...
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... soul in that hopelessly lost state which no amount of suffering can improve , and no signal mercy soften . We have no previous narrative to show us through what processes of self - indulgence , disregard of others , and un- checked ...
... soul in that hopelessly lost state which no amount of suffering can improve , and no signal mercy soften . We have no previous narrative to show us through what processes of self - indulgence , disregard of others , and un- checked ...
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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.