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The one primeval language traced experimentally through ancient inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four continents including the voice of Israel from the rocks of Sinai and the vestiges of patriarchal tradition from the monuments of Egypt, Eturia, and southern Arabia (1851)

Forster, Charles, d. 1871 · London : R. Bentley · leaf 205

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es of thewhole procession were those of mourners; allsave the bearers (of necessity erect), men, women,and priests, were moving with bent forms, anddowncast looks. The soldiers, who close theprocession, move in keeping with the whole,their bodies bent, their heads drooping, theirspears inclining… … THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT. 177 The solemn procession was preceded by thevaoV, or portable temple, bearing the image ofthe Pharaoh, and carried by four-and-twentypall-bearers.* Before this, again, is seen theimage of Osiris borne aloft by forty priests, in-closed in a frame-work covered,…

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