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... Obelisks and Pompey's Pillar - Cairo - Heliopolis , the Pyramids and the Sphinx - Memphis and Mummy Pits - The Field of Zoan " -Tombs and Grottoes of Beni Hassan - Abydos and Tablet of Kings - Denderah , Temple and Zodiac - Thebes , the ...
... Obelisks and Pompey's Pillar - Cairo - Heliopolis , the Pyramids and the Sphinx - Memphis and Mummy Pits - The Field of Zoan " -Tombs and Grottoes of Beni Hassan - Abydos and Tablet of Kings - Denderah , Temple and Zodiac - Thebes , the ...
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... obelisks of granite mark the site of the Cæsarium , or palace of the Cæsars . An obelisk is a single block of stone ... obelisk is derived from a Greek word signifying a spit . Those at Alexandria are sixty - five feet high and seven or ...
... obelisks of granite mark the site of the Cæsarium , or palace of the Cæsars . An obelisk is a single block of stone ... obelisk is derived from a Greek word signifying a spit . Those at Alexandria are sixty - five feet high and seven or ...
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... obelisk at Alexandria , at the temple of Arsinoe , the sister of Ptolemy Philadelphus , originally cut by Nectanebo . It was removed to Rome , and set up in the Roman Forum . Its apex was cut off to be replaced by one of gold , but it ...
... obelisk at Alexandria , at the temple of Arsinoe , the sister of Ptolemy Philadelphus , originally cut by Nectanebo . It was removed to Rome , and set up in the Roman Forum . Its apex was cut off to be replaced by one of gold , but it ...
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... obelisk , covered with hieroglyphics . The ruins around it are in the form of a rectangle , and are about three miles in circum- ference . The obelisk bears the name of Osir- tasen 1. , the date of whose reign is fixed by Wilkinson from ...
... obelisk , covered with hieroglyphics . The ruins around it are in the form of a rectangle , and are about three miles in circum- ference . The obelisk bears the name of Osir- tasen 1. , the date of whose reign is fixed by Wilkinson from ...
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... obelisk in the world , the shaft being one hundred and five feet in height , and it is covered from the base to the top with exquisite sculptures . A ship was built to bring it to Rome , rowed by three hun- dred men , and its original ...
... obelisk in the world , the shaft being one hundred and five feet in height , and it is covered from the base to the top with exquisite sculptures . A ship was built to bring it to Rome , rowed by three hun- dred men , and its original ...
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Page 119 - Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord ; And the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Page 170 - ... wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus...
Page 186 - 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 80 - In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 27 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Page 78 - And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way. 13 AND when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
Page 151 - The night is far spent, the day is at hand ; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Page 123 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ? or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
Page 122 - ... backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, -without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful : who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Page 24 - If they contain what is agreeable with the Book of God, in the Book of God is sufficient without them ; and If they contain what Is contrary to the Book of God, there is no need of them; so give orders for their destruction.