Papers on the Great Pyramid: Including a Critical Examination of Sir Henry James' "Notes on the Great Pyramid of Egypt", Part 3Edmonston and Douglas, 1870 - 126 pàgines |
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Papers on the Great Pyramid: Including a Critical Examination of Sir ..., Part 3 St. John Vincent Day Visualització completa - 1870 |
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Pàgina 77 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Pàgina 82 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Pàgina 74 - The day will soon break, when pious simplicity will be ashamed of its blind superstition ; when men will recognise truth in the book of Nature as well as in the Holy Scriptures, and rejoice in the two revelations.
Pàgina 116 - Babylonian," and at the other end of one and the same line—" Royal or Sacred Cubits, also named Cubits of the Tabernacle." If this map is one of those prepared, as believed by some, at the expense and to the orders of the Fathers of the Palestine Exploration Association — such a radical error with regard to the sacred cubit of the Hebrews may well excite surprise. But if, on the contrary, the map is purely the work of the several Ordnance officers whose names are conspicuously engraved upon it...
Pàgina viii - And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired : but if slenderly, and meanly, it is that which I could attaine unto.
Pàgina 97 - This is to certify, that the piece of iron found by me near the (outside) mouth of the airpassage, in the southern side of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, on Friday, May 26th, was taken out by me from an inner joint, after having removed by blasting the two outer tiers of the stones of the present surface of the Pyramid; and that no joint or opening of any sort was connected with the above-mentioned joint, by which the iron could have been placed in it after the original building of the Pyramid. I also...
Pàgina 100 - Everything there represented speaks of peace at home and abroad,3 of agricultural wealth and consequent content. In all these pictures the men are represented with an ethnic and artistic truth that enables us easily to recognize their race and station. The animals are not only easily distinguishable, but the characteristic peculiarities of each species are seized with a power of generalization seldom if ever surpassed...
Pàgina 89 - in these days, who deals honestly and conscientiously with Egyptian chronology, can evade these questions. We have no hesitation in asserting at once, and without entering into any further investigation, that there exist Egyptian monuments, the date of which can be accurately fixed, of a higher antiquity than those of any other nation known in history, viz., above 5000 years.
Pàgina 97 - We hereby certify that we examined the place whence the " Iron in question was taken by Mr. Hill, and we are of opinion " that the Iron must have been left in the joint during the building of " the Pyramid, and that it could not have been inserted afterwards.* " ED. S. ANDREWS.
Pàgina 96 - discovered a piece of iron in an inner joint, near the mouth of the southern air channel, which is probably the oldest piece of wrought iron known. It was sent to the British Museum with the following certificates : — " This is to certify that the piece of iron found by me near the mouth of the air-passage in the southern side of the Great Pyramid at Gizeh, on Friday...