Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 122
is the chiefbeauty of the Christians morality. The Book of the Dead—that passport for Egyptians into the other world which is foundupon every mummy—gives us the most simple, and at the sametime the most complete description of this virtue. I have givenbread to the hungry, I have given water to the… … iU^ -c Fig. 30.—Fi-orn the tomb of Menofre, at Sakkarah. (Champollion, pi. 408.) theme. As for me, I have been the staff of the old man, thenurse of the infant, the help of the distressed, a warm shelter forall who were cold in the Thebaid, the bread and sustenance of thedown-trodden, of whom there…
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