 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1854 - 702 pages
...people at large. Acgyptians ^he Aeffvptians, according to Herodotus, were tne most "•/ -i ' ' pious of of all men the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods.' They were the first who AFRICA. assigned altars, images, and temples to the several CBAP.T. deities,2... | |
 | Herodotus - 1858 - 658 pages
...go to the right, and the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite different kinds of writing,6 one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are religious to excess, far beyond any other race of men,7 and use the following ceremonies : — They... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 560 pages
...8l ffií 2 ÇÀ '3 \ the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite different kinds of writing,' one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are religious to excess, far beyond any other race of men/ and use the following ceremonies : — They... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 672 pages
...interest they exhibited in their religion, especially in the ceremonial part of it. Herodotus says, " They are of all men the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods." With them everything partook of the stamp of religion. Their writing was so full of sacred symbols... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 544 pages
...interest in religion, especially of the ceremonial part of religion, or worship. Herodotus says : " They are of all men the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods." And beside his statement to that effect, there is evidence that the origin of much of the theology, mythology,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1871 - 552 pages
...interest in religion, especially of the ceremonial part of religion, or worship. Herodotus says : " They are of all men the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods." And beside his statement to that effect, there is evidence that the origin of much of the theology, mythology,... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1872 - 674 pages
...vol. i. pp. 17, 18, 65, 441. II Lib. I. cap. vi. vol. ip 76. By Booth. authority." Herodotus says ' " They are of all men the most 'excessively attentive to the worship of the gods." At ii. 64, p. 119, " The Egyptians, then, are beyond measure scrupulous in all things concerning religion."... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 656 pages
...go to the right, and the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite different kinds of writing,6 one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are religious to excess, far beyond any other race of men,7 and use the following ceremonies : — They... | |
 | George Whitefield Samson - 1879 - 356 pages
...statement of Herodotus as to wine used by the priests, is the following (II. 37). Having said that " they are, of all men, the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods," in a minute description of their dress, food, etc., he says: " Wine from the grape is given them."... | |
 | George Whitefield Samson - 1879 - 344 pages
...statement of Herodotus as to wine used by the priests, is the following (II. 37). Having said that " they are, of all men, the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods," in a minute description of their dress, food, etc., he says : " Wine from the grape is given them."... | |
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Greeks, from left to right, they move their hand from right to left; and they insist, notwithstanding, that it is they who go to the right, and the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite different kinds of writing, one of which is called sacred,... 
