Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians,: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Arts, Manufactures, Religion and Early History; Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existing, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors, Volume 2John Murray, Albemarle Street., 1837 - Architecture, Egyptian |
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... Romans . The Egyptian Father had no Right over the Life of his Son . Punishment for the Murder of a Child . Parricide con- sidered the most unnatural of Crimes Women , when condemned to Death . Some of their Laws , respecting Chastity ...
... Romans . The Egyptian Father had no Right over the Life of his Son . Punishment for the Murder of a Child . Parricide con- sidered the most unnatural of Crimes Women , when condemned to Death . Some of their Laws , respecting Chastity ...
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... Romans . Mr. Hamilton's Ægyptiaca Corruption and Public Distress 78 · 79 80 · 81 · 82 83 The triple Division of the Land had ceased with the Greek Conquest . Edicts of Justinian Transmission of Grain to the Capital of the Empire State ...
... Romans . Mr. Hamilton's Ægyptiaca Corruption and Public Distress 78 · 79 80 · 81 · 82 83 The triple Division of the Land had ceased with the Greek Conquest . Edicts of Justinian Transmission of Grain to the Capital of the Empire State ...
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... Romans · - 114 Position of the Door . Flight of Steps unusual before the Door . Floors . Roofs 115 Roofs often vaulted . Stone Arch at Saqqára , 600 B. C. CONTENTS . ix Page - 116 Probably also used at viii CONTENTS .
... Romans · - 114 Position of the Door . Flight of Steps unusual before the Door . Floors . Roofs 115 Roofs often vaulted . Stone Arch at Saqqára , 600 B. C. CONTENTS . ix Page - 116 Probably also used at viii CONTENTS .
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... Roman Ceilings . Poulterers ' Shops . Villas , large , with many Tanks for Ir- rigation · 123 - 124 - 125 126 127 Fish- Some- - 128 · 130 - 132 Farmyard . Stable and - 133 Pleasure Boats on the Water , within their Grounds . ing ...
... Roman Ceilings . Poulterers ' Shops . Villas , large , with many Tanks for Ir- rigation · 123 - 124 - 125 126 127 Fish- Some- - 128 · 130 - 132 Farmyard . Stable and - 133 Pleasure Boats on the Water , within their Grounds . ing ...
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... Romans , and to some modern European Nations - 139 Water Skins also used . The Garden laid out in Walks . Trees if ... Roman one 151 152 - 153 - 154 - 155 - 157 The Wine poured into Vases , after the fermenting Pro- cess · Amphora closed ...
... Romans , and to some modern European Nations - 139 Water Skins also used . The Garden laid out in Walks . Trees if ... Roman one 151 152 - 153 - 154 - 155 - 157 The Wine poured into Vases , after the fermenting Pro- cess · Amphora closed ...
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Page 5 - 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 372 - 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.
Page 149 - 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.
Page 372 - 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.
Page 108 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Page 63 - 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.
Page 317 - And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.