The book of fate, formerly in the possession of Napoleon, rendered into Engl. from a Germ. tr. of an ancient Egyptian MS., by H. Kirchenhoffer1826 |
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ancient Egypt answer Apollo attend thee awaits thee beautiful beloved of thy BOOK OF FATE born unto thee column of stars consulted the Oracle Delphi DIVINER Dodona Egypt endeavour ENQUIRER evil favour fear future Greece grotto hath heed HERMES TRISMEGISTUS Herodotus Hieroglyphic honour injure thee JOHN EVANS Jupiter king KIRCHENHOFFER length Let not thy let thy mar thy marriage marry mind mummies object of thy OSIRIS patient Pausanias persons Phemonoe Plutarch portendeth possess Price Priestess priests prove prudent Pythia Question riches sacred sacrifices sarcophagus slanderer soon speedily speedy Tavistock Street temple thine enemies thou art Thou hast enemies thou lovest thou mayest thou oughtest thou wilt thy beloved thy business thy children thy conduct Thy dream thy fortune thy friend thy happiness thy heart Thy husband thy journey thy misfortunes thy name Thy partner thy present thy reputation thyself tombs Translator tripod virtue virtuous whilst
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Pagina 25 - ... children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not depart from it.
Pagina 6 - ... sadler, the cartwright, the potter, the money-changer, the husbandman, and in the duties and punishments of military life. Each grotto is adorned with a cieling painted with subjects of fancy, and whose design is exactly the same as that of the paper-hangings which were fashionable in France about thirty years ago. " The tombs of the kings are about six thousand four hundred paces from the river. They have been formed in a narrow valley, in the centre of the mountain Libycus.
Pagina 11 - His face was turned towards the east, and he had the north to his left, and the south at his right. With a crooked staff he divided the face of the heavens into four different parts, and afterwards sacrificed to the gods, covering his head with his vestment. There were generally five things from...
Pagina 10 - The situation of the temple was pleasant ; and there was near it a fountain whose waters were cold at noon and midnight, and warm in the morning and evening. There were above 100 priests in the temple, but the elders only delivered oracles.
Pagina 10 - ... of the neighbouring islands and of the continent, is well known. One of the altars of Apollo, in the island, was reckoned among the seven wonders of the world. It had been erected by Apollo when only four years old, and made with the horns of goats, killed by Diana on mount Cynthus. It was unlawful to sacrifice any living creature upon that altar, which was religiously kept pure from blood and every pollution.
Pagina 7 - Its length is sixteen feet, its height twelve, and its breadth six. It still preserves the lid, adorned with the effigy of the king, which is a single block of granite. The astonishment that is felt, on reflecting that this enormous mass was transported to the extremity of a subterraneous passage two hundred paces in length, exceeds all bounds, when it is considered that it was worked upon the place where it remains. What difficulties must have been surmounted, in order to transport a weight of many...
Pagina 11 - Dodona, there were some beams in the vessel which gave oracles to the Argonauts, and warned them against the approach of calamity. Within the forest of Dodona there was a stream with a fountain of cool water, which had the power of lighting a torch as soon as it touched it This fountain was totally dry at...