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... Egypt , and the gems and spices of the farthest India , were brought by the varying winds into the port Conftantinople , which , for many ages , attracted the commerce of the ancient world Founda- 24 of The prospect of beauty , of ...
... Egypt , and the gems and spices of the farthest India , were brought by the varying winds into the port Conftantinople , which , for many ages , attracted the commerce of the ancient world Founda- 24 of The prospect of beauty , of ...
Side 20
... Egypt for the benefit of his new capital , was applied to feed a lazy and infolent populace , at the expence of the hus- bandmen of an industrious province " . Some other regulations of this emperor are lefs liable to blame , but they ...
... Egypt for the benefit of his new capital , was applied to feed a lazy and infolent populace , at the expence of the hus- bandmen of an industrious province " . Some other regulations of this emperor are lefs liable to blame , but they ...
Side 35
... Egypt was no longer filled by a Roman knight ; but the name was retained ; and the extraordinary powers which the fituation of the country , and the tem- per of the inhabitants , had once made indifpenf- able , were still continued to ...
... Egypt was no longer filled by a Roman knight ; but the name was retained ; and the extraordinary powers which the fituation of the country , and the tem- per of the inhabitants , had once made indifpenf- able , were still continued to ...
Side 42
... Egypt , and four in Africa . The titles of counts , and dukes 27 by which they were properly dif tinguished , have obtained in modern languages fo very different a fenfe , that the ufe of them may occafion fome furprise . But it should ...
... Egypt , and four in Africa . The titles of counts , and dukes 27 by which they were properly dif tinguished , have obtained in modern languages fo very different a fenfe , that the ufe of them may occafion fome furprise . But it should ...
Side 152
... Egyptian obelisk . In a remote but polished age , which feems to have preceded the invention of alpha- betical ... Egypt , in a juft confidence that the fimplicity of their form , and the hardness of their fubftance , would refift ...
... Egyptian obelisk . In a remote but polished age , which feems to have preceded the invention of alpha- betical ... Egypt , in a juft confidence that the fimplicity of their form , and the hardness of their fubftance , would refift ...
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