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Página 216 - of Egypt, is evident from the following passage in the book of Numbers : ' And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place 1 it is no place of seed or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.
Página 216 - it is no place of seed or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates ; neither is there any water to drink.' Larcher therefore supposes Herodotus to speak only of that part of Egypt where corn was cultivated. Again, in the Psalms, we have this passage:
Página 295 - shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the Lord: because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it. ' Behold, therefore, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate.
Página 163 - Egyptian plain, That spreads her conquests o'er a thousand states, And pours her heroes through a hundred gates; Two hundred horsemen, and two hundred cars, From each wide portal issuing to the wars.—Pope. Diodorus Siculus and Strabo both speak in the most exalted terms of its opulence and power.
Página 139 - saith Cyrus, king of Persia : The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth.
Página 144 - The bending willow into barks they twine, Then line the work with skins of slaughter'd kine; Such are the floats Venetian fishers know, Where in dull marshes stands the settling Po : On such to neighboring Gaul, allured by gain, The bolder Britons cross the swelling main.
Página 38 - answered thus, in heroic verse : I count the sand, I measure out the sea ; The silent and the dumb are heard by me : E'en now the odors to my sense that rise, A tortoise boiling with a lamb supplies, Where brass below and brass above it lies. XLVIII. They wrote down the communication
Página 246 - He again introduces this subject in the Odyssey: These drugs, so friendly to the joys of life, Bright Helen learn'd from Thone's imperial wife; Who sway'd the sceptre where prolific Nile With various simples clothes the fatten'd soil, With wholesome herbage mix'd, the direful
Página 54 - And David took the shields of gold which were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem; which King David did dedicate unto the Lord, with the silver and gold of all nations which he subdued.
Página 102 - Scriptures also intimate that mountains and high places were chosen as the properest theatres for the display of religious enthusiasm. See Deuteronomy, chap. xii. ver. 2, 3. • Ye shall utterly destroy the places wherein the nations served their gods on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every