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... Hindoos , the Egyptians were divided into heredi- tary castes , the five great castes being those of the priests , the soldiers , the husbandmen , the herdsmen , and the arti- ficers . Of these the caste of artificers , including a vast ...
... Hindoos , the Egyptians were divided into heredi- tary castes , the five great castes being those of the priests , the soldiers , the husbandmen , the herdsmen , and the arti- ficers . Of these the caste of artificers , including a vast ...
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... Hindoos . Thus in their god Cneph , who was adored at Thebes under the figure of a man , from whose mouth issued an ... Hindoo tenet of the transmi- gration of souls also pervaded the Egyptian religion , and was connected with the ...
... Hindoos . Thus in their god Cneph , who was adored at Thebes under the figure of a man , from whose mouth issued an ... Hindoo tenet of the transmi- gration of souls also pervaded the Egyptian religion , and was connected with the ...
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... Hindoos : as a special example , may be mentioned their common habit of flock- ing to great periodical festivals . With similar habits of submission to priestly authority , it appears that in Egypt the system of castes operated less ...
... Hindoos : as a special example , may be mentioned their common habit of flock- ing to great periodical festivals . With similar habits of submission to priestly authority , it appears that in Egypt the system of castes operated less ...
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... Hindoos . The 49. The Egyptians , at least those who lived in the cultivated districts , were uniformly ingenious and intelli- gent : to the improvement of the memory , in particular , they bestowed much attention . As a general rule ...
... Hindoos . The 49. The Egyptians , at least those who lived in the cultivated districts , were uniformly ingenious and intelli- gent : to the improvement of the memory , in particular , they bestowed much attention . As a general rule ...
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... Hindoos were sometimes designated as Ethiopians by the Greeks ; while , on the other hand , the inhabitants of southern and interior Africa were called Indians . More accurately , however , the name Ethiopia was used by the ancients to ...
... Hindoos were sometimes designated as Ethiopians by the Greeks ; while , on the other hand , the inhabitants of southern and interior Africa were called Indians . More accurately , however , the name Ethiopia was used by the ancients to ...
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Page 124 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 22 - Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: 10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
Page 114 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work. 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!
Page 110 - I do well to be angry, even unto death. Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night.
Page 114 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 59 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
Page 99 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 109 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Page 91 - And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel : and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
Page 23 - But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.