Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 12, Part 2Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 580
... Egyptians , delight - bited by Nonnus in his Dionyfiacs ; the wanderings ed in myfterious and allegorical doctrines . Every of lo , wonderfully adorned by fchylus ; and the maxim of morality , every tenet of theology , every labours of ...
... Egyptians , delight - bited by Nonnus in his Dionyfiacs ; the wanderings ed in myfterious and allegorical doctrines . Every of lo , wonderfully adorned by fchylus ; and the maxim of morality , every tenet of theology , every labours of ...
Page 582
... Egyptian fouls . Many colonies of Egyptians fettled in Greece . myfteries . From thefe the aido ( L ) , or moft early bards of Greece , learned them imperfectly . Of courfe , we find Homer's account of the infernal regions , and of the ...
... Egyptian fouls . Many colonies of Egyptians fettled in Greece . myfteries . From thefe the aido ( L ) , or moft early bards of Greece , learned them imperfectly . Of courfe , we find Homer's account of the infernal regions , and of the ...
Page 606
... Egyptians was fo various and multiform , fo complicated and fo myfterious , that it would require many volumes even to give a fuperficial account of its origin and progrefs , not only in its mother country , but even in many o- ther ...
... Egyptians was fo various and multiform , fo complicated and fo myfterious , that it would require many volumes even to give a fuperficial account of its origin and progrefs , not only in its mother country , but even in many o- ther ...
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