Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant: Illustrated with Copperplates, Volume 2J. Ritchie, 1808 - Africa, North |
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... pied or in the habit of a nun , are ranged around the pedestal of the mummy chests , as if they were intended to be so many guardian genii and attendants . I have already observed , that these bodies were originally placed upright ; and ...
... pied or in the habit of a nun , are ranged around the pedestal of the mummy chests , as if they were intended to be so many guardian genii and attendants . I have already observed , that these bodies were originally placed upright ; and ...
Page 223
... pieds de roy .--- Pour etre capable de couvrir toutes les terres , il faut que l'accroissement du Nil monte jusqu'a vingt quatre Draas , c'est - a - dire quarante huit pieds . Descript . de l'Egypte , P. 60 . * Vid . Bernardum de ...
... pieds de roy .--- Pour etre capable de couvrir toutes les terres , il faut que l'accroissement du Nil monte jusqu'a vingt quatre Draas , c'est - a - dire quarante huit pieds . Descript . de l'Egypte , P. 60 . * Vid . Bernardum de ...
Page 386
... pieds . La porte est elevee 45 pieds au dessus du terrain . Hauteur perpendiculaire de la Piramide , 500 pieds . Longeur des Cotez 670 pieds . 1er . Canal d'entree , qui va en descendant , 3 pieds , 6 pouces , en quaree . Longueur du ...
... pieds . La porte est elevee 45 pieds au dessus du terrain . Hauteur perpendiculaire de la Piramide , 500 pieds . Longeur des Cotez 670 pieds . 1er . Canal d'entree , qui va en descendant , 3 pieds , 6 pouces , en quaree . Longueur du ...
Page 387
... pieds . - Larguer 3 pieds , 8 pouces . Hauteur inegale , car vers le millieu il y a une espece d'En- tresole avec de Canalures , les deux tiers de ce 5e . Canal sont re- vetu de marmor granit . Grande Chambre ou Sale mortuaire , toute ...
... pieds . - Larguer 3 pieds , 8 pouces . Hauteur inegale , car vers le millieu il y a une espece d'En- tresole avec de Canalures , les deux tiers de ce 5e . Canal sont re- vetu de marmor granit . Grande Chambre ou Sale mortuaire , toute ...
Page 388
... pied ou deux d'eau ; il s'enfonce en terre jusqu'a quatre ou cinq pieds de pro- fondeur ; on le coupe avec de longues barres de fer pointues par le bas ; ce qu'on a coupe est remplace l'annee suivante , ou quel , ques annees apres , par ...
... pied ou deux d'eau ; il s'enfonce en terre jusqu'a quatre ou cinq pieds de pro- fondeur ; on le coupe avec de longues barres de fer pointues par le bas ; ce qu'on a coupe est remplace l'annee suivante , ou quel , ques annees apres , par ...
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Page 341 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, As though they were not hers; Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 267 - 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...
Page 89 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Page 54 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 23 - Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Page 141 - But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped...
Page 345 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding. What time she lifteth up herself on high, She scorneth the horse and his rider.
Page 236 - 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 38 - Ab Hadriani temporibus usque ad imperium Constantini, per annos circiter centum octoginta, in loco resurrectionis simulacrum Jovis, in crucis rupe statua ex marmore Veneris a gentibus posita colebatur, existimantibus persecutionis auctoribus, quod tollerent nobis fidem resurrectionis et crucis, si loca sancta per idola polluissent.
Page 109 - It is a block of granite marble, about six yards square, lying tottering as it were, and loose in the middle of the valley, and seems to have formerly belonged to Mount Sinai, which hangs in a variety of precipices all over this plain.