The History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times Till the Conquest by the Arabs, A.D. 640, Volumen2

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George Bell, 1876
 

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Página 55 - She sailed along the river Cydnus in a most magnificent galley. The stern was covered with gold, the sails were of purple, and the oars were silver. These, in their motion, kept time to the music of flutes and pipes and harps. The queen, in the dress and character of Venus, lay under a canopy embroidered with gold, of the most exquisite workmanship, while boys like painted Cupids stood fanning her on each side...
Página 25 - But human nature is the same in all ages and in all countries, and, whatever might have been the past life of the dead, the judge, not to hurt the feelings of the friends, always declared that he was " a righteous and a good man ;" and, notwithstanding the show of truth in the trial, it passed into a proverb to say of a wicked man, that he was too bad to be praised, even at his funeral.
Página 170 - To the same source we may also trace some of the peculiarities of the Christian fathers, such as St. Ambrose calling Jesus " the good scarabaeus, who rolled up before him the hitherto unshapen mud of our bodies...
Página 11 - His reign is remarkable for the rebellion and ruin of the once powerful city of Thebes. It had long been falling in trade and in wealth, and had lost its superiority in arms ; but its temples, like so many citadels, its obelisks, its colossal statues, and the tombs of its great kings, still remained, and with them the memory of its glory then gone by.
Página 349 - In history we are so often misled by names, and facts are so often hid behind words, that it is sometimes useful to recall the attention to what is passing. When the Egyptians were formerly masters of their own country, before the Persian and Greek conquests, they were governed by a race of priests, and the temples were their only fortresses. The temples of Thebes were the citadels of the capital, and the temples of Elephantine guarded the frontier. So now, when the military prefect is too weak to...
Página x - A rod or walking-staff, cut from the tree growing in the garden of the monastery of St. Catherine, at the foot of Mount Sinai...
Página 13 - Egyptian buildings can, when let alone, withstand the wear of time for thousands of years; but the harder hand of man works much faster, and the wide acres of Theban ruins prove alike the greatness of the city and the force with which it was overthrown: and this is the last time that Egyptian Thebes is met with in the pages of history.
Página 14 - Arab villages which have been built within the city's bounds, and perhaps pitches his tent in the open space in the middle of them. But the ruined temples still stand to call forth his wonder. They have seen the whole portion of time of which history keeps the reckoning roll before them ; they have seen kingdoms and nations rise and fall ; the Babylonians, the Jews, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. They have seen the childhood of all that we call ancient ; and they still seem likely to stand,...
Página 81 - Augustus visited the royal burial-place to see the body of Alexander, and devoutly added a golden crown and a garland of flowers to the other ornaments on the sarcophagus of the Macedonian. But he would take no pains to please either the Alexandrians or Egyptians ; he despised them both. When asked if he would not like to see the Alexandrian monarchs lying in their mummy-cases in the same tomb, he answered : " No, I came to see the king, not dead men.
Página 215 - Saccas, who became the founder of a new and most important school of philosophy, that of the Alexandrian Platonists. It is much to be regretted that we know so little of a man who was able to work so great a change in the philosophy of the Pagan world, and who had so great an influence on the opinions of the Christians ; but he wrote nothing, and is only known to us through his pupils, in whose writings we trace the mind and system of the teacher. The most celebrated of those pupils were Plotinus,...

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