The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . heyday of its power, had proved impatient of its yoke. Asia wasassociated henceforward in tlie minds of the Egyptians with painful memoriesof thwarted ambitions, rather than as offering a field for present conquest. Theywere pursued by the memories of their former triumphs, and the very monu-ments of their cities recalled what they were anxious to forget. Wherever theylooked within their towns they encountered the representation of some Asiaticscene; they read the names of the cities of Syria on the walls of their temples;they saw depic
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . heyday of its power, had proved impatient of its yoke. Asia wasassociated henceforward in tlie minds of the Egyptians with painful memoriesof thwarted ambitions, rather than as offering a field for present conquest. Theywere pursued by the memories of their former triumphs, and the very monu-ments of their cities recalled what they were anxious to forget. Wherever theylooked within their towns they encountered the representation of some Asiaticscene; they read the names of the cities of Syria on the walls of their temples;they saw depicted on them its princes and its armies, whose defeat was re-corded by the inscriptions as well as the tribute which they had been forcedto pay. The sense of their own weakness prevented the Egyptians frompassing from useless regrets to action; when, however, one or other of thePharaohs felt sufficiently secure on the throne to carry his troops far afield,he was always attracted to Syria, and crossed her frontiers, often, alas!merely to encounter
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