Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life, Government, Laws, Art, Manufactures, Religions, and Early History; Derived from a Comparison of the Paintings, Sculptures, and Monuments Still Existng, with the Accounts of Ancient Authors. Illustrated by Drawings of Those Subjects, Volume 2J. Murray, 1837 - Agriculture |
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... given up to the Creditor Fondness for Luxury and Display . Cause of Debt . Ne- cessary Expenses small · · Expense of bringing up a Child , only Thirteen Shillings English . Deeds and Civil Contracts , how drawn up under the Ptolemies ...
... given up to the Creditor Fondness for Luxury and Display . Cause of Debt . Ne- cessary Expenses small · · Expense of bringing up a Child , only Thirteen Shillings English . Deeds and Civil Contracts , how drawn up under the Ptolemies ...
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... given the Idea of the Ornament on Greek Sarcophagi . Sentence written over the Door of a House Dedication of the House . Windows small · 122 - 123 Walls and Ceilings painted . Devices similar to those of Greece and Etruria - Greek and ...
... given the Idea of the Ornament on Greek Sarcophagi . Sentence written over the Door of a House Dedication of the House . Windows small · 122 - 123 Walls and Ceilings painted . Devices similar to those of Greece and Etruria - Greek and ...
Page xi
... given to Camels . Va- rious Uses of the Tree The Theban Palm . The Nut used for Carpenters ' Drills - 179 Carpenters ' Tools found at Thebes . The Leaves for Bas- kets and the usual Purposes , to which those of the Date Tree were ...
... given to Camels . Va- rious Uses of the Tree The Theban Palm . The Nut used for Carpenters ' Drills - 179 Carpenters ' Tools found at Thebes . The Leaves for Bas- kets and the usual Purposes , to which those of the Date Tree were ...
Page xx
... given to unmarried as well as married Women . Black and white Slaves . A Napkin for wiping the Mouth after drinking - · 387 - 389 - 391 The Dinner at Midday , and Supper probably at Night . The Table . Round Tables - 393 Question ...
... given to unmarried as well as married Women . Black and white Slaves . A Napkin for wiping the Mouth after drinking - · 387 - 389 - 391 The Dinner at Midday , and Supper probably at Night . The Table . Round Tables - 393 Question ...
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... Day Bull - fights . No Criminals or Captives condemned to fight with wild Beasts , as at Rome Bulls trained on Purpose , with great Care , and Prizes given - LIST AND EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES , WOOD - CUTS a 3 CONTENTS . xxi.
... Day Bull - fights . No Criminals or Captives condemned to fight with wild Beasts , as at Rome Bulls trained on Purpose , with great Care , and Prizes given - LIST AND EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES , WOOD - CUTS a 3 CONTENTS . xxi.
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Page 3 - 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 376 - 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 147 - 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 376 - 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 106 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Page 61 - 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 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.
Page 296 - The first figure is an Egyptian scribe, who presents an account of their arrival to a person seated, the owner of the tomb, and one of the principal officers of the reigning Pharaoh. The next, also an Egyptian, ushers them into his presence ; and two advance bringing presents, the wild goat or ibex and the gazelle, the productions of their country.