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Page 5
land , untutored in the minutiæ of its history , and fairly uncritical of orthography
so long as the names employed serve to convey a definite idea of an undoubted
personage , place , or period . With which prefatory statement , let me turn for a ...
land , untutored in the minutiæ of its history , and fairly uncritical of orthography
so long as the names employed serve to convey a definite idea of an undoubted
personage , place , or period . With which prefatory statement , let me turn for a ...
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The very idea of it makes one ' s mouth water . Thus it was that Cleopatra sailed
this ancient stream — and the very name of the craft means “ golden . ”
Nevertheless I will not conceal from you the fact that the dahabiyeh has its
drawbacks .
The very idea of it makes one ' s mouth water . Thus it was that Cleopatra sailed
this ancient stream — and the very name of the craft means “ golden . ”
Nevertheless I will not conceal from you the fact that the dahabiyeh has its
drawbacks .
Page 92
Two species of survival from the dynastic times have to be considered — namely
, the tombs of various sorts , and the temples . Each species is so intimately
connected with the religion of the ancient peoples and their ideas of the attributes
of ...
Two species of survival from the dynastic times have to be considered — namely
, the tombs of various sorts , and the temples . Each species is so intimately
connected with the religion of the ancient peoples and their ideas of the attributes
of ...
Page 98
Bodies in that remote day were mummified — even before Menes and the
following dynasties - - and were buried with the legs doubled up under the chin .
The heaping - up of the drifting sands over the graves then doubtless led to the
idea of ...
Bodies in that remote day were mummified — even before Menes and the
following dynasties - - and were buried with the legs doubled up under the chin .
The heaping - up of the drifting sands over the graves then doubtless led to the
idea of ...
Page 110
Naturally in that time each “ nome , " or district , had its local ideas of theological
problems and its own nomenclature . But on the emergence of the nation as a bi -
partite kingdom consisting of the South and the North , or of Valley and Delta ...
Naturally in that time each “ nome , " or district , had its local ideas of theological
problems and its own nomenclature . But on the emergence of the nation as a bi -
partite kingdom consisting of the South and the North , or of Valley and Delta ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Egyptian Days |
| Author | Philip Sanford Marden |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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