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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... for an Oath . Its frequent Repetition avoided 49 Usury condemned . Rate of Interest . Right of Creditors . Sanctity of the Person . Diodorus's Remark on this Law 50 Page Another Law to prevent Debt . Showing their Respect A 3.
... for an Oath . Its frequent Repetition avoided 49 Usury condemned . Rate of Interest . Right of Creditors . Sanctity of the Person . Diodorus's Remark on this Law 50 Page Another Law to prevent Debt . Showing their Respect A 3.
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... Frequently not connected by Bars , which shows the Skill of their Cabinetmakers at a very early Period · Arm - chairs , ornamented with the Figure of a Lion like the Throne of Solomon . The Cushions and rich Coverings - 195 of the Back ...
... Frequently not connected by Bars , which shows the Skill of their Cabinetmakers at a very early Period · Arm - chairs , ornamented with the Figure of a Lion like the Throne of Solomon . The Cushions and rich Coverings - 195 of the Back ...
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... frequently acted as superintendents of the herdsmen , and were obliged to give an account to the steward of the number and condition of the cattle on the estate , the direct care of them being the office of an inferior class of people ...
... frequently acted as superintendents of the herdsmen , and were obliged to give an account to the steward of the number and condition of the cattle on the estate , the direct care of them being the office of an inferior class of people ...
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... frequently in two or three different arts at once . Many , again , in those communities which are governed according to democratical principles , are in the habit of frequenting popular assemblies , and , dreaming only of their own ...
... frequently in two or three different arts at once . Many , again , in those communities which are governed according to democratical principles , are in the habit of frequenting popular assemblies , and , dreaming only of their own ...
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... Egyptian mode of weighing and of noting down the account frequently occurs in the sculptures . As with the modern Ethiopians . Conf . Zech . xiii . 9. , and 1 Pet . i . 7 . mine ; and it is singular that none have yet.
... Egyptian mode of weighing and of noting down the account frequently occurs in the sculptures . As with the modern Ethiopians . Conf . Zech . xiii . 9. , and 1 Pet . i . 7 . mine ; and it is singular that none have yet.
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according adopted Alabastron Alexandria Amasis appear Arabic Athenæus bastinado Beni Hassan Berlin Museum Cairo CHAP chief Conf Copt court crime custom dancing Diod Diodor door double pipe Egyp Egyptians employed flute found at Thebes frequently garden gods Greeks ground guests guitar hand harp Heptanomis Herculaneum Herodotus hieratic hieroglyphic honour Horus instrument introduced Jews judges justice kind king land laws Lower Egypt lyre mentioned ments military mode modern Egypt modern Egyptians monarch Moslems Nile nomarch nome offence ornamented paintings party persons Pharaoh Plin Plutarch præfects present day priests probably provinces Ptolemy punishment received Remeses Rhampsinitus Romans rooms Salt's Collection says sculptures servants side similar sistrum slaves sometimes stone Strabo strings suppose temple Thebaïd Thebes tion tombs town trees upper vases Vide plate Vide references Vide suprà Vide wood-cut villas vineyard wine women wooden
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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.