Archaeological Essays, Volume 1Edmonston and Douglas, 1872 |
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Page 262 - And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand; And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble; and beneath, A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death, Welcoming him we lose with scarce extinguished breath.
Page 228 - Moreover, Herodotus tells us that ' the Egyptians so detested the memory of these kings, that they do not much like even to mention their names. Hence they commonly call the pyramids after Philition, a shepherd who at that time fed his flocks about the place.
Page 228 - Egypt endured for the space of one hundred and six years, during the whole of which time the temples were shut up and never opened. The Egyptians so detest the memory of these kings that they do not much like even to mention their names. Hence they commonly call the pyramids after Philition,3 a shepherd who at that time fed his flocks about the place.
Page 208 - Ness) ; from this stream he took a white pebble, and showing it to his companions said to them : — " Behold this white pebble by which God will effect the cure of many diseases among this heathen nation.
Page 236 - Pyramid, a chamber, in which there was a hollow stone : in it was a statue of stone like a man, and within it a man, upon whom was a breast-plate of gold set with jewels ; upon...
Page 270 - It may be remarked, that the Arabian authors have given the same accounts of the Pyramids, with little or no variation, for above a thousand years...
Page 168 - ... recent event, happening about 449, and therefore only about a hundred years before he wrote his history. If he were misled, how is it that he does not mention some nation of wider fame, and is satisfied to select the Angles and the remote tribe of the Friesians to be the inhabitants of Britain ? 53. I cannot omit to mention...
Page 167 - Westphalia; but the tribes by whom Britain was invaded, appear principally to have proceeded from the country now called Friesland; for of all the Continental dialects, the ancient Frisick is the one which approaches most nearly to the Anglo-Saxon of our ancestors.
Page 217 - Brethren to surcease thair process, as therein they perceive no ground of Offence, and admonishes the said Laird of Lee, in the using of the said stone, to take heid that it be usit hereafter with the least scandle that possibly maybe. Extract out of the Books of the Assemblie holden at Glasgow, and subscribed at thair command. M. ROBERT YOUNG, Clerk to the Assemblie at Glasgow.
Page 217 - It is manifest, by experience, that the seventh male child, by just order (never a girle or wench being born between), doth heal only with touching (through a natural gift) the king's evil: which is a special gift of God, given to kings and queens, as daily experience doth witnesse.