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... once for all determined . The language of ancient Egypt has been supposed to pre- sent a distant affinity with the Semitic tongues . But , isolated as they were by nature , it is no wonder if the Egyptians framed a religion exclusively ...
... once for all determined . The language of ancient Egypt has been supposed to pre- sent a distant affinity with the Semitic tongues . But , isolated as they were by nature , it is no wonder if the Egyptians framed a religion exclusively ...
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... in Brugsch , " Gesch . Aegyptens unter den Phar- aonen , " pp . 141 , 142 , a work abounding in essential additions to our knowl- edge of the subject . THUTMOSIS I. 11 once been found . It is undeniable 10 ANCIENT EGYPT .
... in Brugsch , " Gesch . Aegyptens unter den Phar- aonen , " pp . 141 , 142 , a work abounding in essential additions to our knowl- edge of the subject . THUTMOSIS I. 11 once been found . It is undeniable 10 ANCIENT EGYPT .
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... once into countries of peculiar organization , of which no other record is extant , and into a campaign of the oldest time and of a very singular description . The nations assailed had already been subdued once , but had regained their ...
... once into countries of peculiar organization , of which no other record is extant , and into a campaign of the oldest time and of a very singular description . The nations assailed had already been subdued once , but had regained their ...
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... Once more the regular succession of the royal line was interrupted . King Sethos I. of the nineteenth dynasty had the hardest struggles to undergo . The Cheta appear as his most conspicuous opponents , and around them had been formed a ...
... Once more the regular succession of the royal line was interrupted . King Sethos I. of the nineteenth dynasty had the hardest struggles to undergo . The Cheta appear as his most conspicuous opponents , and around them had been formed a ...
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... once more . He encoun- * In the first volume of Champollion , " Les Monuments de l'Egypte et de la Nubie , " the publication of which we owe to the munificence of the French government under Guizot , are found several representations of ...
... once more . He encoun- * In the first volume of Champollion , " Les Monuments de l'Egypte et de la Nubie , " the publication of which we owe to the munificence of the French government under Guizot , are found several representations of ...
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Page 26 - I AM the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. THOU shalt have no other gods before me. THOU shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 42 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
Page 25 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 37 - Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian. 23 And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you : the LORD shall rule over you.