Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Art, Manufactures, Religions, and Early History; Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existng, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors. Illustrated by Drawings of Those Subjects, Volumen2J. Murray, 1837 |
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... belonged to the land - owner ; but those employed in the plough , and for other agricultural purposes , were usually the property of the farmer . In exten- sive domains , the peasants frequently acted as superintendents of the herdsmen ...
... belonged to the land - owner ; but those employed in the plough , and for other agricultural purposes , were usually the property of the farmer . In exten- sive domains , the peasants frequently acted as superintendents of the herdsmen ...
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... belonged to the private sailing or pleasure * That ostrich eggs were also highly prized , is evident from their forming part of the tributes brought to the kings . boats of the grandees ; others to those of burden 6 CHAP . IV . THE ...
... belonged to the private sailing or pleasure * That ostrich eggs were also highly prized , is evident from their forming part of the tributes brought to the kings . boats of the grandees ; others to those of burden 6 CHAP . IV . THE ...
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... belonged to , each of the dif ferent trades ( as is still the case in a great degree at Cairo * ) : and this may be inferred from the men- tion of " the leather cutters of the Memnonia , " above alluded to , who appear to have been a ...
... belonged to , each of the dif ferent trades ( as is still the case in a great degree at Cairo * ) : and this may be inferred from the men- tion of " the leather cutters of the Memnonia , " above alluded to , who appear to have been a ...
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... belonged to the priests , until the Romans took away that privilege . Conf . the banquet of Xenophon , as the civil magistrate weighs bread in the market - place . " + Small objects were , no doubt , weighed at the shop by the seller ...
... belonged to the priests , until the Romans took away that privilege . Conf . the banquet of Xenophon , as the civil magistrate weighs bread in the market - place . " + Small objects were , no doubt , weighed at the shop by the seller ...
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... belonged . By these means the situ ation of the different cities became greatly elevated above the reach of the inundation , even more than in the time of Sesostris ; " and either on account of a greater proportion of criminals , or ...
... belonged . By these means the situ ation of the different cities became greatly elevated above the reach of the inundation , even more than in the time of Sesostris ; " and either on account of a greater proportion of criminals , or ...
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Página 3 - 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...
Página 376 - And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Página 147 - My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein : and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Página 376 - But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Página 106 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Página 61 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Página 220 - Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us: 8 Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be withered...
Página 312 - And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Página 222 - Plato, who was well acquainted with the usages of the Egyptians, says that they considered music of the greatest consequence, from its beneficial effects upon the mind of youth ; and according to Strabo, the children of the Egyptians were taught letters, the songs appointed by law, and a certain kind of music, established by government.
Página 296 - The first figure is an Egyptian scribe, who presents an account of their arrival to a person seated, the owner of the tomb, and one of the principal officers of the reigning Pharaoh. The next, also an Egyptian, ushers them into his presence ; and two advance bringing presents, the wild goat or ibex and the gazelle, the productions of their country.