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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... Harp or Lyre a much more simple Invention 226 - 227 · Fabulous Account of the Lyre . Diodorus confounds it with the Guitar Bruce's Harps at Thebes The Accuracy and Enterprise of Bruce . Disbelieved from Ignorance and Jealousy 228 - 229 ...
... Harp or Lyre a much more simple Invention 226 - 227 · Fabulous Account of the Lyre . Diodorus confounds it with the Guitar Bruce's Harps at Thebes The Accuracy and Enterprise of Bruce . Disbelieved from Ignorance and Jealousy 228 - 229 ...
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... Harp - 269 Harps varied in Form , and the Number of their Strings . Harps used between 3000 and 4000 Years ago in Egypt 271 Harp unknown to the Greeks . Lyre introduced from Asia into Greece . Terpander instituted Laws for it , 670 ...
... Harp - 269 Harps varied in Form , and the Number of their Strings . Harps used between 3000 and 4000 Years ago in Egypt 271 Harp unknown to the Greeks . Lyre introduced from Asia into Greece . Terpander instituted Laws for it , 670 ...
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... Harps nor Lyres · Other Instruments found at Thebes . Five , at least , which differ from the Harp and Lyre - A very perfect Specimen of one of these brought from Thebes by Mr. Burton . The Lyre of varied Form Apollodorus's Story of the ...
... Harps nor Lyres · Other Instruments found at Thebes . Five , at least , which differ from the Harp and Lyre - A very perfect Specimen of one of these brought from Thebes by Mr. Burton . The Lyre of varied Form Apollodorus's Story of the ...
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... Harp - 316 - 317 - 318 - 319 Music an indispensable Part of Religion among the Jews also - Female Musicians admitted to the Temple with the Jews 320 With the Egyptians likewise . Women attached to the Ser- vice of the Temple The Sistrum ...
... Harp - 316 - 317 - 318 - 319 Music an indispensable Part of Religion among the Jews also - Female Musicians admitted to the Temple with the Jews 320 With the Egyptians likewise . Women attached to the Ser- vice of the Temple The Sistrum ...
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... harp , “ boini , ” ( ouoini ) and over the flute player , sêbi " the flute . ” 234. No. 185. Harp , guitar , and double pipe . No. 186 . Harp and a smaller one of four chords . Harp , guitar , double pipe , lyre , and square 235. No ...
... harp , “ boini , ” ( ouoini ) and over the flute player , sêbi " the flute . ” 234. No. 185. Harp , guitar , and double pipe . No. 186 . Harp and a smaller one of four chords . Harp , guitar , double pipe , lyre , and square 235. No ...
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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.