Horæ Ægyptiacæ: or, The chronology of ancient Egypt

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Pàgina 148 - That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3. All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea. 4. Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Pàgina 166 - So when they had gotten those that governed us under their power, they afterwards burnt down our cities, and demolished the temples of the gods, and used all the inhabitants after a most barbarous manner ; nay, some they slew, and led their children and their wives into slavery.
Pàgina 12 - System,' cannot be too highly appreciated. The author at once took his place in the foremost rank of geologists. But his energy did not permit him to rest satisfied with the accomplishment of so noble a labour.
Pàgina 2 - A most animated and sprightly picture of the state of society at Sierra Leone, the point and cleverness of which is, we apprehend, to be placed to the credit of the talented editor, fully as much as to that of the original writer of the letters.
Pàgina 12 - Brief and imperfect as the preceding abstract is, we think that it will fully justify the high praise we have bestowed on this work, and induce our readers to sit down to the luxurious repast from which we have risen."— Edinburgh Review, DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING IN THE TWEED.
Pàgina 12 - The author baa developed the first broad outlines of a new system of classification, capable of effecting for geology what the natural system of Jussieu had effected for botany. It is a work which must necessarily become a standard for geologists.
Pàgina 9 - RIDDLE. —A COPIOUS AND CRITICAL LATIN-ENGLISH LEXICON, founded on the German-Latin Dictionaries of Dr. William Freund. By the Rev. JE RIDDLE, MA of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford. Uniform with Yonge't Enalish Greek Lexicon. New Edition. Post 4to. £2. 10s. cloth. RIDDLE.— A COMPLETE LATIN-ENGLISH AND ENGLISHLATIN DICTIONARY, for the use of Colleges and Schools.
Pàgina 10 - Correspondence of James Watt on his Discovery of the Theory of the Composition of Water, with a Letter from his Son.
Pàgina 148 - And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of...

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