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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... land , separated from the surrounding mountains on the north and west by a wide valley , of which a certain proportion , always laid under water , forms what the inhabitants call Birket - él - Karoon . ( Vid . Maris ) Near Cairo , the ...
... land , separated from the surrounding mountains on the north and west by a wide valley , of which a certain proportion , always laid under water , forms what the inhabitants call Birket - él - Karoon . ( Vid . Maris ) Near Cairo , the ...
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... land of imal which the ancients mention under that name , and Ham , " seems to have been the poetical name for Egypt which has never been found except in this country . among the Hebrews , and accordingly it occurs only in It possesses ...
... land of imal which the ancients mention under that name , and Ham , " seems to have been the poetical name for Egypt which has never been found except in this country . among the Hebrews , and accordingly it occurs only in It possesses ...
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... land of Kopt , or the Koptic land . Others derive it from aia , and you , the black vulture , the colour of that bird ( whence the Latin subvulturius , " blackish " ) being , according to them , characteristic of the soil or its ...
... land of Kopt , or the Koptic land . Others derive it from aia , and you , the black vulture , the colour of that bird ( whence the Latin subvulturius , " blackish " ) being , according to them , characteristic of the soil or its ...
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... land ? Everything seems to countenance the idea that civil- ization came gradually down the valley of the Nile , from the borders of Ethiopia to the shores of the Med- ilized life were first introduced into Upper Egypt , the lower ...
... land ? Everything seems to countenance the idea that civil- ization came gradually down the valley of the Nile , from the borders of Ethiopia to the shores of the Med- ilized life were first introduced into Upper Egypt , the lower ...
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... land attached to it , the mains , the common possession of the whole fraternity , revenues of which , belonging as they did to those and their original place of settlement . These lands whose forefathers had erected the temple , were ...
... land attached to it , the mains , the common possession of the whole fraternity , revenues of which , belonging as they did to those and their original place of settlement . These lands whose forefathers had erected the temple , were ...
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