Historical Researches Into the Politics, Intercourse, and Trade of the Principal Nations of Antiquity, Volume 5D.A.Talboys, 1838 |
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Page 345 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.
Page 336 - The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
Page 343 - In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
Page 226 - Belzoni is not learned, but very minute and accurate. careous stones ; and from the great number of fragments of smaller dimensions, and of standing and sitting lion-headed statues, I can boldly state, that these ruins appear to me to have belonged to the most magnificent temple of any on the western side of Thebes.
Page 336 - And they shall turn the rivers far away ; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up : the reeds and flags shall wither.
Page 241 - Egyptian contain two, the others three. warriors; and above all, the difference of the arms, the Egyptian shield being square at one end and round at the other ; their arms a bow and arrows. The enemy's shield, on the contrary, is round; their infantry are armed with spears, their charioteers with short javelins.
Page 356 - The weaver's loom is fastened to four pegs rammed into the ground ; and the workman sits on that part of the web, already finished, which is a small chequered pattern of yellow and green. It is observable in many colours of the early Egyptian cloths, that the byssus was dyed in the wool before being weaved.
Page 211 - Thebes, therefore, was built on the two banks of the Nile, without being connected, as far as we know, by means of a bridge. A people, whose knowledge of architecture had not attained to the formation of arches, could hardly have constructed a bridge over a river, the breadth of which would even now oppose great obstacles to such an...
Page 399 - Phoenix with blessings 3 ; to whom the gods presented length of life ; Apollo the powerful, the son of Heron, Ramesses to the king of the world ; who has protected Egypt, by conquering the strangers ; whom Helios loves, to whom the gods have given long life, the lord ^ of the world, Ramesses the ever-living." " Helios, the great god, the lord of heaven, I have to thee given life free from care, Apollo the powerful, the lord of the diadem, the incomparable, the statue has placed in this royal city...