. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . RAMSES THOSE who are familiar with the com-mon limits of history may be surprisedat the assertion that no nation has oc-cupied so long the stage of the world,or performed a grander part thereonthan ancient Eg}pt. With the dawnof the Nineteenth Century came thedecipherment of the hieroglyphics,furnishing a clear revelation of thetrue history of that country, its civili-zation, arts, sciences, literature, gov-ernment and military conquests. Shepresents to the admiration of the mod-ern world her long series
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages . RAMSES THOSE who are familiar with the com-mon limits of history may be surprisedat the assertion that no nation has oc-cupied so long the stage of the world,or performed a grander part thereonthan ancient Eg}pt. With the dawnof the Nineteenth Century came thedecipherment of the hieroglyphics,furnishing a clear revelation of thetrue history of that country, its civili-zation, arts, sciences, literature, gov-ernment and military conquests. Shepresents to the admiration of the mod-ern world her long series of works of architecture, sculptureand even painting. Her kings and warriors, engineers andartists are in no wise inferior to the Greek or Roman in theexcellence of their works or in the magnitude of their enter-prises. The exploits, fabulous and otherwise, of numerousEgyptian kings were assigned by the classical narrators tothe sole credit of one hero, whom they called know now what the Greeks did not, that his right nameand title is Ramses II. There are echoes from the remotea
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