Egyptian DaysHoughton Mifflin, 1912 - 329 pages |
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Page 90
... faces and features , of Pharaohs who reigned long years before Moses led the Israelites out of bondage - long years , indeed ... face with those brave men who were before Agamemnon , who lived before Troy's towers rose , or 90 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
... faces and features , of Pharaohs who reigned long years before Moses led the Israelites out of bondage - long years , indeed ... face with those brave men who were before Agamemnon , who lived before Troy's towers rose , or 90 EGYPTIAN DAYS.
Page 91
... faces some image of the vanished soul . Men may differ as they will in their estimates of Greek and Egyptian art . They may quarrel over the problems of chronology . They may question the reality of Abraham and query which was the Pha ...
... faces some image of the vanished soul . Men may differ as they will in their estimates of Greek and Egyptian art . They may quarrel over the problems of chronology . They may question the reality of Abraham and query which was the Pha ...
Page 101
... faces of easily worked stone . In arrangement they are invariably much less complicated than the wholly subterranean tomb - chambers ; but their decoration , while mainly painted instead of carved , is highly im- portant and absorbingly ...
... faces of easily worked stone . In arrangement they are invariably much less complicated than the wholly subterranean tomb - chambers ; but their decoration , while mainly painted instead of carved , is highly im- portant and absorbingly ...
Page 116
... face and horns of a ram ; Hathor , in the guise of a cow , - all these fall far short of our modern ideas of godlike beauty and can never compare with the glorious conception which later Greece gave of her gods and goddesses . Zeus ...
... face and horns of a ram ; Hathor , in the guise of a cow , - all these fall far short of our modern ideas of godlike beauty and can never compare with the glorious conception which later Greece gave of her gods and goddesses . Zeus ...
Page 141
... face and down into a valley shadowed by the meaner and more ruinous brick pyramids of those of low degree . The prospect was incredibly glorious . Under the full moon the Nile valley , broad and dim , was fair to see ; and the desert ...
... face and down into a valley shadowed by the meaner and more ruinous brick pyramids of those of low degree . The prospect was incredibly glorious . Under the full moon the Nile valley , broad and dim , was fair to see ; and the desert ...
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Abydos Amenhotep Amenhotep III Ammon Ammon-Ra ancient appears Arabs Assiut Assuan backsheesh bank bazaars Beni Hassan body building Cairo camel carved cemetery chapel Cheops Citadel cliffs colossi columns Copts court dead decoration delightful Dendera desert donkey doubtless dragoman Dynasty Edfû Egypt Egyptian erected Esneh eternal face feet feluccas Ghizeh gods Greek Hassan Hatasu Hathor Horus huge hypostyle hall impressive Isis Karnak Khephrên king KOM OMBO land later lofty Luxor magnificent massive mastaba mastaba tomb Memphis midst miles modern Mohammed monarchs monument mortuary mosque Mouski mummy native Nile once Osiris passed Pharaoh Philæ Professor Ptolemaic pylon pyramids Rameses Rameses II Ramesseum Raschid ride river rock ruin sacred Sakkâra sands seems seen Seti shrine side sort sowaheen Sphinx spot steamer stone street Taiyah tarbush temple Thebes thing Thutmosis Thutmosis III tion to-day towers valley visitor walls worship