Horae Aegypticae: Or, The Chronology of Ancient Egypt Discovered from Astronomical and Hieroglyphic Records from Its Monuments; ... and Illustrations of the History of the First Nineteen Dynasties, Showing the Order of Succession from the Monuments

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John Murray, 1851 - 263 pagina's
 

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Pagina 148 - That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3. All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Pagina 1 - Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China. With a Visit to the Tea and Cotton Countries.
Pagina 5 - SOUTH GERMANY— Bavaria, Austria, Salzberg, the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, the Tyrol, and the Danube, from Ulm to the Black Sea. Map. Post 8vo. 10s. — PAINTING— the German, Flemish, and Dutch Schools.
Pagina 12 - System,' cannot be too highly appreciated. The author at once took his place in the foremost rank of geologists. But his energy did not permit him to rest satisfied with the accomplishment of so noble a labour.
Pagina 166 - So when they had gotten those that governed us under their power, they afterwards burnt down our cities, and demolished the temples of the gods, and used all the inhabitants after a most barbarous manner ; nay, some they slew, and led their children and their wives into slavery.
Pagina 10 - Correspondence of James Watt on his Discovery of the Theory of the Composition of Water, with a Letter from his Son.
Pagina 3 - The little work before us is a genuine account of what a missionary's life is now in Canada. Under an invented name, it is the story of the writer's own experience, told in a straightforward and unaffected manner, with considerable power of description."— Guardian.
Pagina 1 - Written in an easy unaffected style : and the sketches which it gives of European life and manners under an Eastern sun must interest all who have friends in India, and who would like to know how they pass their days.

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