A visit to Egypt, in 1872. Described in four lectures |
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Sayfa 104 - And it came .to pass, that, in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the LORD, with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen : and the people were without number that came with him. out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians. And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Sayfa 112 - Remeses offers similar prisoners to the deity of the temple, who says, — " Go, my cherished and chosen, make war on foreign nations, besiege their forts, and carry off their people to live as captives...
Sayfa 104 - AND it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.
Sayfa 116 - ... with a red colour, and the draughtsman then carefully sketched the outlines in black, and submitted them to the inspection of the former, who altered (as appears in some few instances here) those parts which he deemed deficient in proportion or correctness of attitude; and in that state they were left for the chisel of the sculptor. But the death of the king, or some other cause, prevented, in this case, their completion ; and their unfinished condition, so far from exciting our regret, affords...
Sayfa 103 - Era, up to the present time. By far the greater part of the buildings date, however, from the reigns of Sethos I., and his son and successor, Rameses the Great.
Sayfa 176 - England, arriving there in snow and fog, which made me feel that if any form of idolatry be excusable, it is the worship of the sun.
Sayfa 66 - ... personality not only of Jacob and Isaac, but also of Abraham — and it is obvious to every one, that with Abraham historical personalities take the place of eponyme patriarchs — we may yet, even in the age of " Abram the Hebrew," the wanderer from Mesopotamia of Chaldee origin, recognise a period, neither to be calculated by generations of individuals, nor capable of being measured by any means now at our disposal.