Early Egyptian history, for the young, by the author of 'Sidney Grey' and her sister [E. Keary].1861 |
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... wonder how people could admire the great thick- lipped statues in the British Museum , and what pleasure they could take in examining the odd dog - headed vases , and stiff little blue gods , which to me all looked so exactly like one ...
... wonder how people could admire the great thick- lipped statues in the British Museum , and what pleasure they could take in examining the odd dog - headed vases , and stiff little blue gods , which to me all looked so exactly like one ...
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... wonder of the world . That statue , lying on its back in the ditch , is almost all we have left of it . Once it stood one among a long line of statues before the mag- nificent temple of Phthah or Pthah , which occupied this palm ...
... wonder of the world . That statue , lying on its back in the ditch , is almost all we have left of it . Once it stood one among a long line of statues before the mag- nificent temple of Phthah or Pthah , which occupied this palm ...
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... wonder city too , -vaster and more populous than the one where the king held his court ever was , with houses built with the same science , and adorned with equal art . This was the city where the dead dwelt ; each mummied figure of ...
... wonder city too , -vaster and more populous than the one where the king held his court ever was , with houses built with the same science , and adorned with equal art . This was the city where the dead dwelt ; each mummied figure of ...
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... wonder if they ever said to each other , as they stood together in the tomb , " After all , why should we hurry the workpeople ? -it will be a long , long time before we , either of us , come to be shut up here with only pictures to ...
... wonder if they ever said to each other , as they stood together in the tomb , " After all , why should we hurry the workpeople ? -it will be a long , long time before we , either of us , come to be shut up here with only pictures to ...
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... wonder at the Arabs calling her Aboohol , the Father of Terror . The leonine part of the figure is almost buried in sand , only the thick neck and gigan- tic time - battered head tower up into the air . The Sphinx is cut out of the ...
... wonder at the Arabs calling her Aboohol , the Father of Terror . The leonine part of the figure is almost buried in sand , only the thick neck and gigan- tic time - battered head tower up into the air . The Sphinx is cut out of the ...
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