A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians: Revised and Abridged from His Larger Work, Volumen 1

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Harper & brothers, 1854
 

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Página 34 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs...
Página 172 - But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Página 188 - Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been...
Página 172 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Página 179 - And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birth-right, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
Página 226 - Besides the ordinary sphinx, compounded of a lion and a man, and denominated androsphinx, were the criosphinx, with the head of a ram, and the hieracosphinx, with the...
Página 188 - Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present, and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments; and let no flower of the spring pass by us; let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered...
Página 291 - Vulcan ; which last is remarkable for its architectural beauty, its extent, and the richness of its decoration." The festival in honour of Apis lasted seven days ; on which occasion a large concourse of people assembled at Memphis. The priests then led the sacred bull in solemn procession...
Página 146 - ... or preferred her own ; and women of every class vied with each other in the display of ' jewels of silver and jewels of gold...
Página 45 - Some have pretended to doubt that the vine was commonly cultivated, or even grown, in Egypt ; but the frequent notice of it and of Egyptian wine in the scriptures, and the authority of ancient writers, sufficiently answer those objections ; and the regrets of the Israelites on leaving the vines of Egypt prove them to have been very abundant, since even people in the condition of slaves could procure the fruit.

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