The history of Egypt from the earliest times till the conquest bythe Arabs A.D. 640, Volume 11870 |
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Page 51 - She sailed along the river Cydnus in a most magnificent galley. The stern was covered with gold, the sails were of purple, and the oars were silver. These, in their motion, kept time to the music of flutes and pipes and harps. The queen, in the dress and character of Venus, lay under a canopy embroidered with gold, of the most exquisite workmanship, while boys like painted Cupids stood fanning her on each side...
Page 10 - ... now counts the Arab villages which have been built within the city's bounds, and perhaps pitches his tent in the open space in the middle of them. But the ruined temples still stand to call forth his wonder. They have seen the whole portion of time of which history keeps the reckoning roll before them ; they have seen kingdoms and nations rise and fall ; the Babylonians, the Jews, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Eomans.
Page 77 - Augustus visited the royal burial-place to see the body of Alexander, and devoutly added a golden crown and a garland of flowers to the other ornaments on the sarcophagus of the Macedonian. But he would take no pains to please either the Alexandrians or Egyptians ; he despised them both. When asked if he would not like to see the Alexandrian monarchs lying in their mummy-cases in the same tomb, he answered : " No, I came to see the king, not dead men.
Page 201 - ... we possessed it, would settle for us the disputed point, whether or no it contained all that now bears that Apostle's name in the Greek translation. The learned, industrious, and pious Clemens, who, to distinguish him from Clemens of Rome, is usually called Clemens Alexandrinus, succeeded Pantaenus in the catechetical school, and was at the same time a voluminous writer. He was in his philosophy a platonist, though sometimes called of the Eclectic school. He has left an Address to the Gentiles,...
Page xxiii - ... be put to death. In vain Grypus urged that he did not wish his victory to be stained by the death of a sister; that Cleopatra was by marriage his sister as well as hers; that she was the aunt of their children; and that the gods would punish them if they dragged her from the altar. But Tryphaena was merciless and unmoved; she gave her own orders to the soldiers, and Cleopatra was killed as she clung with her arms to the statue of the goddess. This...
Page 164 - To the same source we may also trace some of the peculiarities of the Christian fathers, such as St. Ambrose calling Jesus " the good scarabaeus, who rolled up before him the hitherto unshapen mud of our bodies...
Page 355 - Adule in Abyssinia, everything that he tells us is valuable ; but when he reasons as a monk, the case is sadly changed. He is of the dogmatical school which forbids all inquiry as heretical. He fights the battle which has been so often fought before and since, and is even still fought so resolutely, the battle of religious ignorance against scientific knowledge. He sets the words of the Bible against the results of science ; he denies that the world is a sphere, and quotes the Old Testament against...
Page 53 - On the servants removing the meats, they set before her a glass of vinegar, and she took one of these earrings from her ear and dropped it into the glass, and when dissolved drank it off. Plancus, one of the guests, who had been made judge of the wager, snatched the other from the queen's ear, and saved it from being drunk up like the first, and then declared that Antony had lost his bet. The pearl which was saved was afterwards cut in two, and made into a pair of earrings for the statue of Venus...
Page 53 - When the day came, the dinner was as grand and dainty as those of the former days; but when Antony called upon her to count up the cost of the meats and wines, she said that she did not reckon them, but that she should herself soon eat and drink the ten thousand sestertia. She wore in her ears two pearls, the largest known in the world, which, like the diamonds of European kings, had come to her with her crown and kingdom, and were together valued at that large sum. On the servants removing the meats,...
Page 201 - King of all, and all things iSjj£ {jfj are because of him, and he is the cause of all that is good; and the things which are second are around the second ; and the things which are third are around the third ; I cannot but understand that the holy trinity was meant ; that the third was the Holy Spirit, and the second the Son, through whom all things were made according to the will of the Father.