Among the Egyptians, the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures; they are furnished with propylaea, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns; their walls glitter with foreign marbles, and paintings of the... Ancient Egypt Under the Pharaohs - Pagina 3di John Kenrick - 1850 - 528 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Encyclopaedia - 1852 - 482 pagine
...mummy laid in a consecrated cemetery. Clement of Alexandria truly says, 1 —" Among the Egyptians the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures; they are furnished with propykea, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns; their walls glitter with... | |
| George Smith - 1853 - 464 pagine
...introduced, they were carried out to an amazing extent. " Among the Egyptians," says Clemens Alexandrinus, "the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures; they are furnished with propylaa, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns; their walls glitter with... | |
| George Smith - 1854 - 696 pagine
...introduced, they were carried out to an amazing extent. " Among the Egyptians," says Clemens Alexandrinus, " the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures : they are furnished with propylcea, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns ; their walls glitter... | |
| William Osburn (Jr.) - 1854 - 566 pagine
...vivid description from the pen of an eye-witness. "Among the Egyptians," says Clemens Alexandrinus, " the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures ; they are furnished with propylsea, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns ; their walls glitter... | |
| Marcus Moritz Kalisch - 1855 - 672 pagine
...lib. ii. § 3) gives us, as an eye-witness, the following graphic description: "Among the Egyptians, the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated...foreign marbles, and paintings of the highest art; the nave is resplendent with gold, and silver, and electrum, and variegated stones from India and Ethiopia;... | |
| George Smith - 1855 - 676 pagine
...introduced, they were carried out to an amazing extent. " Among the Egyptians," says Clemens Alexandrinus, " the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures; they are furnished with prnpylan, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns ; their walls glitter with... | |
| Robert Slack - 1856 - 474 pagine
...worshipped perhaps was no greater than a mouse. " Among the Egyptians," says Clemens Alexandrinus, " the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated...courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns ; the walls glitter with foreign marbles and paintings of the highest art, the naos is resplendent... | |
| George Trevor - 1863 - 398 pagine
...regarded this irrational superstition is well expressed by Clement of Alexandria :2 " Among the Egyptians the temples are surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures ; they are furnished with propylsea, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of columns; their walls glitter with... | |
| 1865 - 786 pagine
...the temples aro surrounded with groves and consecrated pastures ; they are furnished with propylaja, and their courts are encircled with an infinite number of •columns ; their walla glitter with foreign marbles and paintings of the highest art; the naos is resplendent with gold... | |
| Charles Piazzi Smyth - 1867 - 702 pagine
...Clemens Alex. andrinus write 1600 years ago : — ' Among the Egyptians, the temples are sur. ' rounded with groves and consecrated pastures : ' they are...; ' their walls glitter with foreign marbles, and paint. ' ings of the highest art ; the naos is resplendent ' with gold, and silver, and electrum, and... | |
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