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... present , to fear a want of water . — Pococke . - There are still eighty canals in Ægypt like rivers , several of which are twenty , thirty , and forty leagues in length.- Savary . The same author adds , that the chain - buckets used in ...
... present , to fear a want of water . — Pococke . - There are still eighty canals in Ægypt like rivers , several of which are twenty , thirty , and forty leagues in length.- Savary . The same author adds , that the chain - buckets used in ...
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... presents to all the more celebrated temples ; to that of the Sun he sent two obelisks , too remarkable to be un- noticed ; each was formed of one solid stone , one hundred cubits high , and eight broad . CXII . The successor of Pheron ...
... presents to all the more celebrated temples ; to that of the Sun he sent two obelisks , too remarkable to be un- noticed ; each was formed of one solid stone , one hundred cubits high , and eight broad . CXII . The successor of Pheron ...
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... present is easily crumbled to powder , though originally perhaps it might be of greater tenacity , as the composition of it seems to be the same with that of Barbary . " 219 Aid of machines . ] — Mr . Greaves thinks that this ac- count ...
... present is easily crumbled to powder , though originally perhaps it might be of greater tenacity , as the composition of it seems to be the same with that of Barbary . " 219 Aid of machines . ] — Mr . Greaves thinks that this ac- count ...
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... present her with a stone . With these it is reported the middle of the three pyramids fronting the larger one , 223 , 222 Prostituted his daughter . ] - This account of the king's prostituting his daughter has been thought so full of ...
... present her with a stone . With these it is reported the middle of the three pyramids fronting the larger one , 223 , 222 Prostituted his daughter . ] - This account of the king's prostituting his daughter has been thought so full of ...
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... present time , is one thousand six hundred years from Hercules , the reputed son of Alc- mena , is nine hundred years ; and from Pan , whom the Greeks call the son of Penelope and Mercury , is eight hundred years , before which time was ...
... present time , is one thousand six hundred years from Hercules , the reputed son of Alc- mena , is nine hundred years ; and from Pan , whom the Greeks call the son of Penelope and Mercury , is eight hundred years , before which time was ...
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Page 138 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 337 - I am, and none else beside me ; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children :" but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children...
Page 436 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 263 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 32 - In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Page 32 - Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. 5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Page 152 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters...
Page 5 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Page 194 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does Man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless ; Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away; The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd ; Content with poverty my soul I arm, And Virtue,...
Page 101 - And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.