A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians: From His Larger Work, by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson. Illustrated with Five Hundred Woodcuts, Volume 1

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Page 34 - 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 43 - 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 188 - Our life is short and tedious, and in the death of a man there is no remedy: neither was there any man known to have returned from the grave. For we are born at all adventure: and we shall be hereafter as though we had never been...
Page 172 - 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 172 - Lord's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. 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 52 - ... the painters, in illustrating this fact, have sometimes sacrificed their gallantry to a love of A servant called to support her mistress. Thebes. caricature. Some call the servants to support them as they sit, others with difficulty prevent themselves from falling on those behind them ; a basin is brought too late by a reluctant servant ; 59. Thebes. 58. and the faded flower, which is ready to drop from their heated hands, is intended to be characteristic of their own sensations.
Page 335 - PRIESTS. of a large kelt or apron, either tied in front, or wound round the lower part of the body ; and the loose upper robe with full sleeves, which, in all cases, was of the finest linen. He had sometimes one or two feathers on his head, as described by...
Page 226 - Besides the ordinary sphinx, compounded of a lion and a man, and denominated androsphinx, were the criosphinx, with the head of a ram, and the hieracosphinx, with the...
Page 82 - ... that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall ; that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David; that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
Page 49 - Mareotic grape was remarkable for its sweetness," and the wine is thus described by him : " Its colour is white, its quality excellent, and it is sweet and light with a fragrant bouquet ; it is by no means astringent, nor does it affect the head.

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