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Page 720 - The Egyptians, on the other hand, carried the system right through the whole gamut from pictures to letters, but retained all the intermediate phases, the initial tending to fall away, the final to expand, while the bulk of the hieroglyphs represented in various degrees the several transitional states.
Page 116 - ... the god himself, under penalty of losing their efficacy. They were always recited with the same rhythm, according to a system of melody in which every tone had its virtue, combined with movements which confirmed the sense and worked with irresistible effect : one false note, a single discord between the succession of gestures and the utterance of the sacramental words, any hesitation, any awkwardness in the accomplishment of a rite, and the sacrifice was...
Page 78 - A no less ancient tradition disregarded as fabulous all tales told of the sparrow-hawk, or of the face, and taught that heaven and earth are wedded gods, Sibu, and Nuit, from 115 whose marriage came forth all that has been, all that is, and all that shall be.
Page 323 - Dost thou not recall the picture of the farmer, when the tenth of his grain is levied ? Worms have destroyed half of the wheat, and the hippopotami have eaten the rest ; there are swarms of rats in the fields, the grasshoppers alight there, the cattle devour, the little birds pilfer, and if the farmer lose sight for an instant of what remains upon the ground, it is carried off by robbers...
Page 380 - It is the eldest of the three children who are in the body of Rud-didet who shall bring them to thee.
Page 290 - Under her there are secondary wives taking rank according to their birth, and being probably more or less secluded, and beneath them again are a troop of concubines and foreign slaves. The court of Pharaoh was imitated by the feudal chief of every nome, who also had his harem, " where the legitimate wife — often a princess of solar rank — played the role of Queen surrounded by concubines, dancers, and slaves.
Page 229 - ... obeyed princes whom her annalists were unable to classify : for instance, they associate with Sondi a Pirsenu, who is not mentioned in the annals. We must, therefore, take the record of all this opening period of history for what it is — namely, a system invented at a much later date, by means of various artifices and combinations — to be partially accepted in default of a better, but without according to it that excessive confidence which it has hitherto received. The two Thinite dynasties,...
Page 488 - They had said that the wind would not be contrary, or that there would be none. But as we approached the land the wind arose, and threw up waves eight cubits high. As for me, I seized a piece of wood; but those who were in the vessel perished, without one remaining.
Page 181 - I have not caused the slave to be ill-treated of his master ! I have not starved any man, I have not made any to weep, ... I have not pulled down the scale of the...
Page 38 - One would say that the language of the people of Egypt and the languages of the Semitic races, having once belonged to the same group, had separated very early, at a time when the vocabulary and the grammatical system of the group had not as yet taken definite shape.