The foundations of history . hcoat of manure, causing it to be exceedingly fruitful. Inplace of the flood, almost immediately, a beautiful gardenappears. Egypt had its princes and its Pharaoh in the time ofAbraham f many cities in the time of Joseph f and its im-mense standing army of chariots and horsemen in the timeof Moses. It was said afterwards to have contained twentythousand cities. Some of them, No-Ammon or Thebes, Zoan,On or Heliopolis, Noph or Memphis, etc., v/ill always live inhistory. Of Thebes, Homer wrote, nearly three thousandyears ago: The worlds great empress on the Egyptian p
The foundations of history . hcoat of manure, causing it to be exceedingly fruitful. Inplace of the flood, almost immediately, a beautiful gardenappears. Egypt had its princes and its Pharaoh in the time ofAbraham f many cities in the time of Joseph f and its im-mense standing army of chariots and horsemen in the timeof Moses. It was said afterwards to have contained twentythousand cities. Some of them, No-Ammon or Thebes, Zoan,On or Heliopolis, Noph or Memphis, etc., v/ill always live inhistory. Of Thebes, Homer wrote, nearly three thousandyears ago: The worlds great empress on the Egyptian plains,That spreads her conquests oer a thousand pours her heroes through a hundred gates. The historical pictures on the walls of the palaces inThebes, although painted three thousand years since, are asbright in their colors, and as fresh in their appearance, as ifjust finished. On the outer wall of one of these palaces, arepictures. extending eight hundred feet in length. Like the ^ Gen. xii. 15. ^ Gen. xli. jLAdicot-t ?ceo, Af ter l) . jtIojO er ls , P. A. CENTRAL AVENUE OF THE GREAT HALL OF COLUMNSKARNAK, THEBES. EGYPT. 129 paintings in Nineveh, the king is represented as a giant insize, and as performing most wonderful deeds. With Egypt, we at once associate the touching story ofJoseph and his brethren, one of the first instances show-ing how God overrules the evil designs of men to carry outhis own purposes ; in that case, to preserve his people andto save their lives by a great deliverance. We think alsoof the fearful plagues sent upon it when the Lord would de-liver his people—the destruction of Pharaoh and his host—its myriads of mummies—its pyramids, its immense statues,and its vast ruins ; those of the temples of Luxor, and Kar-nac, and of the city of Thebes being the wonder and de-light of travelers to the present day. We remember itsseats of literature and learning—its celebrated Alexandrianlibrary—its first and great translation
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