The Egyptian Problem Classic Reprint

Author : Sir Valentine Chirol
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1528247019

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The Egyptian Problem (Classic Reprint) by Sir Valentine Chirol Pdf

Excerpt from The Egyptian Problem At a time when self-government is recognised more clearly than ever before to be the keystone of the British Empire and has been set before the peoples of the greatest of our Oriental dependencies as the goal which they also shall reach, it is not unreasonable that Egypt should claim something of the same boon as the corollary of the permanent association With the British Empire into which we sought to force her during the war by the proclamation of a British Protectorate. Were that her Whole claim, few if any responsible Englishmen would refuse to go a long way to satisfy it Without questioning too closely the actual fitness of the Egyptians to govern themselves. But the Egyptian Nationalists, who have at least temporarily carried the bulk of their articulate fellow-countrymen With them, go much further than that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : D. Mackenzie Wallace
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 542 pages
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Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0266495338

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Egypt and the Egyptian Question (Classic Reprint) by D. Mackenzie Wallace Pdf

Excerpt from Egypt and the Egyptian Question To understand such conduct on the part of a Mudir, English readers must be informed that the chief duty of a provincial Governor in Egypt is not to prevent injustice or to increase the well - being of the inhabit ants, but to collect the full amount of the taxes, and to avoid giving unnecessary trouble to his superiors. In his officially trained mind the fellaheen are not men and women with human feelings and civil rights who are to be protected and cared for, but rather biped sheep which have to be regularly shorn at ap pointed seasons. Their complaints, therefore, fall on his ears pretty much as the pathetic bleating of the sheep at shearing-time may be supposed to fall on the unsympathetic ears of the wool - dealer's agent who superintends the operation, and who is responsible for the delivery of the full amount of wool contracted for. If his Excellency happens to be a man of a philosophical turn of mind, who likes to bring his conduct into harmony with abstract principles - or, rather to bring abstract principles into harmony with his conduct - he may plausibly adduce the raison. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Augustus Le Plongeon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Central America
ISBN : NYPL:33433081750121

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Queen Móo and the Egyptian Sphinx by Augustus Le Plongeon Pdf

Author : Thomas Eric Peet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0282386238

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Egypt and the Old Testament (Classic Reprint) by Thomas Eric Peet Pdf

Excerpt from Egypt and the Old TestamentYet another book on Egypt and the Bible! It might have been thought that all that is worth saying on the subject had been said, and well said. This would be a mistake. Each year some fresh discovery modifies our conception of Egypt and its history, and it is not a rare event for a belief which no one ever thought of question ing to be destroyed by a single blow of the excavator's pick.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : W.M. flinders Petrie
Publisher : DTTV PUBLICATIONS
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9798705454044

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THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT by W.M. flinders Petrie Pdf

Before dealing with the special varieties of the Egyptians' belief in gods, it is best to try to avoid a misunderstanding of their whole conception of the supernatural. The term god has come to tacitly imply to our minds such a highly specialized group of attributes, that we can hardly throw our ideas back into the more remote conceptions to which we also attach the same name. It is unfortunate that every other word for supernatural intelligence has become debased so that we cannot well speak of demons, devils, ghosts, or fairies without implying a noxious or a trifling meaning, quite unsuited to the ancient deities that were so beneficent and powerful. If then we use the word god for such conceptions, it must always be with the reservation that the word has now a vastly different meaning from what it had to ancient minds.To the Egyptians the gods might be mortal; even Ra, the sun-god, is said to have grown old and feeble, Osiris was slain, and Orion, the great hunter of the heavens, killed and ate the gods. The mortality of gods has been dwelt on by Dr. Frazer (Golden Bough), and the many instances of tombs of gods, and of the slaying of the deified man who was worshipped, all show that immortality was not a divine attribute. Nor was there any doubt that they might suffer while alive; one myth tells how Ra, as he walked on earth, was bitten by a magic serpent and suffered torments. The gods were also supposed to share in a life like that of man, not only in Egypt but in most ancient lands. Offerings of food and drink were constantly supplied to them, in Egypt laid upon the altars, in other lands burnt for a sweet savor. At Thebes, the divine wife of the god, or high priestess, was the head of the harem of concubines of the god; and similarly, in Babylonia, the chamber of the god with the golden couch could only be visited by the priestess who slept there for oracular responses. The Egyptian gods could not be cognisant of what passed on earth without being informed, nor could they reveal their will at a distant place except by sending a messenger; they were as limited as the Greek gods who required the aid of Iris to communicate one with another or with mankind. The gods, therefore, have no divine superiority to the man in conditions or limitations; they can only be described as pre-existent, acting intelligence, with scarcely greater powers than a man might hope to gain by magic or witchcraft of his own. This conception explains how easily the divine merged into the human in Greek theology, and how frequently divine ancestors occurred in family histories. (By the word 'theology' is designated the knowledge about gods.)

Author : Sir Valentine Chirol
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1330280970

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The Egyptian Problem by Sir Valentine Chirol Pdf

Excerpt from The Egyptian Problem This volume has grown out of a series of articles contributed to The Times from Egypt between October, 1919, and April, 1920. I am indebted to the proprietors of The Times for permission to reproduce them, but I have amplified and to a large extent rewritten them, as there are many aspects of the Egyptian question to which only the briefest reference could be made within the limits of space allowed to me, however liberally, in a daily newspaper at a time when the world is full of equally urgent questions. As an almost essential preamble to any serious attempt to describe the Egyptian Nationalist movement with which we are confronted to-day, I have reviewed in a few preliminary chapters the story of modern Egypt since that ancient land emerged again little more than a century ago from mediæval obscurity and almost complete oblivion into the limelight of world history. The present upheaval in Egypt is not merely incidental to the storm of unrest that the Great War has let loose upon other countries besides Egypt, nor is it due solely to the British Occupation or the British Protectorate. It has far deeper causes. The Egyptian question is bound up with a large part of the world's history for the last hundred years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Francis Morgan Barber
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0259962376

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The Mechanical Triumphs of the Ancient Egyptians (Classic Reprint) by Francis Morgan Barber Pdf

Excerpt from The Mechanical Triumphs of the Ancient Egyptians As a result of three visits to Egypt it has been my experience that, notwithstanding the ulti mate paramount interest of travellers in the manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians and the nature of their stupendous monuments, the question most frequently asked with regard to the latter is not why did they create them, but how. How did they transport these great stones, and how did they lift them to the posi tions in which they are now found In many cases the cause of this very practical inquiry is, perhaps, not far to seek, for this is a mechanical age, and it is probable that fifty per cent. Of the people who visit Egypt to-day owe that privi lege to the means derived from some applica tion of the mechanic arts. With them the idea is instinctive but, indeed, with everybody it may be said that it is the physical problem which first attracts the mind, and not the aesthetic, or the ethnographic, or the religious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Joseph W. Folk
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0656058854

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The Case of Egypt (Classic Reprint) by Joseph W. Folk Pdf

Excerpt from The Case of Egypt Great Britain in time of war seized Egypt under the guise of a protectorate and now, in violation of the principles of the proposed League of Nations and of common justice, asks that the seizure and continued holding of Egypt be approved by the United States and other nations and that Egypt, without the consent of the Egyptians, be turned over to Great Britain as a subject and conquered nation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : W. Basil Worsfold
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0656353864

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The Future of Egypt (Classic Reprint) by W. Basil Worsfold Pdf

Excerpt from The Future of Egypt IN his brief chapter on 'the Future of Egypt' - the last in M odem Egypt - Lord Cromer writes It is probable that few Englishmen ever ask themselves seriously the question of Quo Vadis in connection with Egyptian affairs.' In this little book an attempt is made to bring together, in a convenient form, the facts most likely to be of use in the consideration of this question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : George Forrest Browne
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Some Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Dunecht House Aberdeenshire (Classic Reprint) by George Forrest Browne Pdf

Excerpt from On Some Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Dunecht House Aberdeenshire It was known to the archaeologist that there were ogam inscriptions in the district, two Of them being among the most important in Caledonia; and that within an easy motor drive there was a minuscule inscription of six lines Of which no satisfactory explanation had been given. This inscription they had visited in a previous year. Further, the quick eye Of the hostess of Dunecht had caught sight of some curious sculptures on a stone by the road-side on the way to the minus cule inscription; and other like stones in the neighbourhood had been shewn in Stuart's two volumes of Sculptural Stones of Scotland. The suggestion was then made that for the sake of visitors at Dunecht a sort Of guide book should be prepared, giving some simple description of the several Objects and their meaning and uses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Heinrich Brugsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OXFORD:302121927

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A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs by Heinrich Brugsch Pdf

Author : E. L. Butcher
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0483437522

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Egypt as We Knew It (Classic Reprint) by E. L. Butcher Pdf

Excerpt from Egypt as We Knew It She will suddenly wake up and proceed to make history at such a rate that a quarter of a century will give her chronicler material for a volume. There is more difference, I venture to say, between the Egypt of Abbas and of Ismail, than between the days of Ismail Pasha in 1865 and the days of David Pasha in 1545. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Henrik Ibsen
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen by Henrik Ibsen Pdf

Excerpt from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen ON the 3lst of May 1880, Henrik Ibsen wrote to his publisher, Frederik Hegel, that he had begun a little book in which he intended to give some account of the outward and inward conditions under which each one of his works had come into being (letter It was to be called From Simian, to Rome, and was to give descriptions of his life at Skien and Grimstad, Bergen and Christiania, Dresden, Munich, and Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0267552440

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Growth of Religious and Moral Ideas in Egypt (Classic Reprint) by Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer Pdf

Excerpt from Growth of Religious and Moral Ideas in Egypt The magic of Egypt's ancient past is irresistible the fascination of her present is perennial. Much has been written on the greatness and grandeur of her mighty civilization, but much more remains to be done before it can be said that we comprehend her. There are still great gaps in our knowledge of her history; and her art and architecture, though assiduously studied, are yet but poorly understood. Her picturesque script and her strange religion still bristle With unsolved problems. This little book, by a student and lover of Egypt, aims only at a glimpse of one of the most enchanting problems of Egyptology. The religious and moral ideas of ancient Egypt yield to no other problem in human interest. How they arose, grew, and developed is the subject of this study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Science
ISBN : BSB:BSB10539416

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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1828 (Classic Reprint) by Anonim Pdf

Excerpt from The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1828 A few Remarks on the class Mollusca in Dr fleming's Work on British Animals; with Descriptions of some new Species. By george johnston, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Communicated by the Author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.