A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts. Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the SameHarper, 1890 - 1451 |
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... Egypt , founded Heliopolis , and taught the Egyptians astrology . The same writer states , that the Greeks , having lost by a deluge nearly all their memorials of previous events , became ignorant of their claim to the invention of the ...
... Egypt , founded Heliopolis , and taught the Egyptians astrology . The same writer states , that the Greeks , having lost by a deluge nearly all their memorials of previous events , became ignorant of their claim to the invention of the ...
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... Egypt owes its ex- istence as a habitable country , since , without the rich and fertilizing mud deposited by the river in its annual inundations , it would be a sandy desert . At three different places previous to its entering Egypt ...
... Egypt owes its ex- istence as a habitable country , since , without the rich and fertilizing mud deposited by the river in its annual inundations , it would be a sandy desert . At three different places previous to its entering Egypt ...
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... Egypt Almost the whole of the productive soil of Egypt consists of mud deposited by the Nile ; and the Delta , as in all similar tracts of country , is entirely composed of alluvial earth and sand . To ascertain the depth of this bed ...
... Egypt Almost the whole of the productive soil of Egypt consists of mud deposited by the Nile ; and the Delta , as in all similar tracts of country , is entirely composed of alluvial earth and sand . To ascertain the depth of this bed ...
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... Egypt differ not much from those of that of the poppy . He adds , that there is a second Europe . He saw the Egyptian swan represented in species , the root of which is very grateful , either fresh all the temples of Upper Egypt , both ...
... Egypt differ not much from those of that of the poppy . He adds , that there is a second Europe . He saw the Egyptian swan represented in species , the root of which is very grateful , either fresh all the temples of Upper Egypt , both ...
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... Egypt in Ethiopia , means the country of canals . Eusebius , who is supposed to have followed Manetho , the Egyptian historian , states , that Ramses , or Ramesses , who reigned in Egypt ( according to Usher ) B.C. 1577 , was also ...
... Egypt in Ethiopia , means the country of canals . Eusebius , who is supposed to have followed Manetho , the Egyptian historian , states , that Ramses , or Ramesses , who reigned in Egypt ( according to Usher ) B.C. 1577 , was also ...
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