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... dynasties and individual sovereigns ; but on such information, even when free from doubt and most accurate, little real value can be set; while the Bible supplies, either by express statement or obvious implication, facts and principles ...
... dynasties and individual sovereigns ; but on such information, even when free from doubt and most accurate, little real value can be set; while the Bible supplies, either by express statement or obvious implication, facts and principles ...
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... dynasty. In a small tomb near the great pyramid, the name of the founder has been discovered. Manetho writes it in Greek, 2ov(fis (Suphis) ; Eratosthenes says that, in Egyptian, this means xopaazoj, i. e. "one who has much hair." The ...
... dynasty. In a small tomb near the great pyramid, the name of the founder has been discovered. Manetho writes it in Greek, 2ov(fis (Suphis) ; Eratosthenes says that, in Egyptian, this means xopaazoj, i. e. "one who has much hair." The ...
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... dynasty reigned in Egypt at the time of Abram's visit. But the sacred narrative does not mention any king of Egypt by his proper name, till after the time of Solomon ; and the Egyptian chronology at, and for some time after, this early ...
... dynasty reigned in Egypt at the time of Abram's visit. But the sacred narrative does not mention any king of Egypt by his proper name, till after the time of Solomon ; and the Egyptian chronology at, and for some time after, this early ...
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... dynasty, which he calls shepherd kings, was composed of thirty-two sovereigns, who reigned 518 years ; and that the ... dynasties, he thus writes : — "All this nation was called Hyksos, or shepherd kings ; for the first syllable, Hyk, in ...
... dynasty, which he calls shepherd kings, was composed of thirty-two sovereigns, who reigned 518 years ; and that the ... dynasties, he thus writes : — "All this nation was called Hyksos, or shepherd kings ; for the first syllable, Hyk, in ...
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... dynasty founded by Amosis (who expelled the shepherds) consisted of sixteen kings, who, together, reigned two hundred and sixty-three years. The last of these kings, Amenophis, or one of his immediate predecessors, " being warned by the ...
... dynasty founded by Amosis (who expelled the shepherds) consisted of sixteen kings, who, together, reigned two hundred and sixty-three years. The last of these kings, Amenophis, or one of his immediate predecessors, " being warned by the ...
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Page 153 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 199 - 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 154 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 223 - And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Page 126 - Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen ; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Page 116 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 176 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we : Come on, let us deal wisely with them ; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 177 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 107 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, the chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs...
Page 211 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.