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... entreated he would give him time to remove his wife and his cow , and set off on full speed for that purpose - and this poor man , we doubt not , was quite as well skilled as his neighbours in all the learning of the Egyptians .
... entreated he would give him time to remove his wife and his cow , and set off on full speed for that purpose - and this poor man , we doubt not , was quite as well skilled as his neighbours in all the learning of the Egyptians .
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... and the very natural desire of associating himself to this species of renown , would induce every succeeding traveller to add to his own ; such is , without doubt , the cause of those innumerable inscriptions of names , of all dates ...
... and the very natural desire of associating himself to this species of renown , would induce every succeeding traveller to add to his own ; such is , without doubt , the cause of those innumerable inscriptions of names , of all dates ...
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But Nouet , like most of his countrymen , was a theorist ; and boldly assuming his own observation to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , as well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately ...
But Nouet , like most of his countrymen , was a theorist ; and boldly assuming his own observation to be strictly true , of which we have very great doubts , as well as of the position of the well of Syene being at any time immediately ...
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The temple of Sibhoi was minutely examined , and no doubt remained of its having been a celebrated sanctuary of pure Egyptian architecture . Mr. Legh thinks it probably of an earlier date than those in Egypt ; the walls being built in a ...
The temple of Sibhoi was minutely examined , and no doubt remained of its having been a celebrated sanctuary of pure Egyptian architecture . Mr. Legh thinks it probably of an earlier date than those in Egypt ; the walls being built in a ...
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We have no reason to doubt Herodotus when he says that 100,000 men were employed by Cheops in quarrying stones in the Nubian Mountains and conveying them down the Nile , for building a bridge which occupied ten years , and erecting a ...
We have no reason to doubt Herodotus when he says that 100,000 men were employed by Cheops in quarrying stones in the Nubian Mountains and conveying them down the Nile , for building a bridge which occupied ten years , and erecting a ...
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