Early Egyptian history, for the young, by the author of 'Sidney Grey' and her sister [E. Keary].1861 |
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... leaves , and the flower , from which the sweet smell came , is a fluffy , little , yellow ball . My Arab donkey boy ... leaf so still that day , that they , too , looked as if they might have been cut out from some solid blue - green ...
... leaves , and the flower , from which the sweet smell came , is a fluffy , little , yellow ball . My Arab donkey boy ... leaf so still that day , that they , too , looked as if they might have been cut out from some solid blue - green ...
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... leaves and thick stems , that it made me think of the harvest - field in Brobdignag , where Gulliver was lost ; and from that my thoughts flew off to the English harvest - field , where , a few months before , you and I sat together ...
... leaves and thick stems , that it made me think of the harvest - field in Brobdignag , where Gulliver was lost ; and from that my thoughts flew off to the English harvest - field , where , a few months before , you and I sat together ...
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... leaves , the very same symbol of prosperity which adorns the thrones of kings a thousand years later . The face and figure of Shafré are said to be so life - like , that it is impossible to look at them , without con- cluding the statue ...
... leaves , the very same symbol of prosperity which adorns the thrones of kings a thousand years later . The face and figure of Shafré are said to be so life - like , that it is impossible to look at them , without con- cluding the statue ...
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... whose ripe acorns will fall pattering down on the dead leaves unheeded , for some hundreds of autumns more before even savages learn to prize them , or , if we fancy it inhabited at all , we must think of little Celtic 48 EGYPTIAN HISTORY .
... whose ripe acorns will fall pattering down on the dead leaves unheeded , for some hundreds of autumns more before even savages learn to prize them , or , if we fancy it inhabited at all , we must think of little Celtic 48 EGYPTIAN HISTORY .
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... people did a long time ago . " Each division of the wall was a leaf of the picture - book , for almost every group of figures told a separate story , and one could pass on from group to group , making out 78 EGYPTIAN HISTORY .
... people did a long time ago . " Each division of the wall was a leaf of the picture - book , for almost every group of figures told a separate story , and one could pass on from group to group , making out 78 EGYPTIAN HISTORY .
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Amasis Amen-em-an Amenemha Amenti Amun Amunoph ancient Egyptians Apepi Apis appears Apries army boat body brought Bubastis built called Cambridge Cambyses chamber chariot cloth College court Crown 8vo dark dead death deity desert Diospolite donkeys dynasty Egypt Egyptian history Egyptian king emblem Ethiopian father Fcap gilt leaves goddess gods Greek head Heliopolis Heracleopolite Herodotus hieroglyphic Hittites honour Horus inscription Isis Karnac land letter lived look Lord Manetho Memphis monuments mummy Nile nineteenth dynasty obelisks Osiris painted perhaps Pharaoh pillars Plutarch priests probably Psammetichus Pthah pylons Pyramid Rameses records reign represented river rock round royal sacred animals sand says scribe sculptures Second Edition Sermons Sesertasen Sesostris Sethi Shepherds side soul sphinxes standing stone story supposed tell temple Thebes Thothmes thou thought throne tombs Trinity College twelfth dynasty University of Cambridge walls worshipped writing
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