Ancient Egypt and the East

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Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Macmillan and Company, 1920
 

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Página 20 - 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 : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Página 60 - Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
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Página 101 - ... it may be by more than one route and on more than one continent, in Asia as well as Africa — actual links of connection may eventually come to light. Of the origins of our complex European culture this much at least can be confidently stated: the earliest extraneous sources on which it drew lay respectively in two directions — in the valley of the Nile, on one side, and in that of the Euphrates, on the other. Of the high early culture in the lower Euphrates valley our first real knowledge...
Página 89 - ... conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or to both imprisonment and fine.
Página 3 - A Survey of Egypt and Syria, undertaken in the year 1422 by Sir Gilbert de Lannoy, Knt. Translated from a Manuscript in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, with an introductory dissertation, and notes of illustrations and reference to the Croisades.
Página 55 - Tem hath stablished, let my hands lay hold upon the wheat and the barley which shall be given unto me therein in abundant measure, and may the son of mine own body make [ready] for me my food therein.
Página 99 - Aeaea, patched up new — Stern painted brighter blue — ) That talkative, bald-headed seaman came (Twelve patient comrades sweating at the oar) From Troy's doom-crimson shore, And with great lies about his wooden horse Set the crew laughing and forgot his course.
Página 29 - WITHIN the streams, Pausanias saith, That down Cocytus valley flow, Girdling the grey domain of Death, The spectral fishes come and go ; The ghosts of trout flit to and fro. Persephone, fulfil my wish, And grant that in the shades below My ghost may land the ghosts of fish.
Página 68 - Atum caused to appear in glory on his throne, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands, Nebkheperura, the Son of Ra, his beloved, Tutankhamun, Ruler of Heliopolis of Upper Egypt.

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