ts full and glorious past that Egyptian society found the ideal towhich it clung in spite of all obstacles and misfortunes. Its gazewas turned backwards towards those early sovereigns who seemedtransfigured by distance, but whose presence in the memory keptalive the perpetual worship which had been… … Fit;. 53.—Sculptor carving n statue, Thebes. (Champollion, pi. iSo.) equally true in respect to art. Each of those dynasties towhich Egypt owed its political restoration, set themselves torepair the temples which had been destroyed, and to replaceupon their pedestals the statues of gods or…
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