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...ow the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt and her mythology as a backdrop to delve into the meanings of life and religion. -McNally Robinson Rai Aren and Tavius E. ...

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...d, “There is no way out from here, we must do some- thing!” The language they spoke was an ancient one. “We have no chance to escape,” another said, ... ... serious work to do and if we don’t speed things up, we’re toast. Dustimaine wants those ancient tools that were found yesterday to be cleaned and c... ... leading down into it. It was not far from a much larger site where he had found numerous ancient tombs, and where he was now focusing his own effor... ...ce of great wealth was every- where around them – paintings of tapestries, linens, chests, sculptures, vases. “This was obviously a sophisticated and... ...t Mitch. “Could the name Pharos be a derivative of the earlier word Pharom? Pharos is the Greek word for lighthouse.” “It has to be, it’s too close....

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...isdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Decapitation Pg... ... Daoist Priest told him that this is what the original Yin-Yang symbol of the ancient concept of Duality looked like before the Daoist Duality of Ev... ... and regardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist i... ...ardless of size. By using the theoretical abstract straight line of ancient Greek geometry and abstract mathematics which does not exist in the ac... ...between equals was created, when Paris of Troy fell in love with Helen of the Greeks, and both the Trojans and the Greeks were almost completely des... ...t: is also in a state of weightlessness. Apollo is the Sun God of the Ancient Greeks. The Apollo rocket is the son of the Sun God. Once the sperm ... ..., Chairs, Machines, Highways, Jewelry, Antiques, Ancient Tools, Paintings, and Sculptures… we call these things artifacts… Boats, Planes, Guns, Bom... ...erected in their honor: statues in parks and squares all over the world. The sculptures of these monuments only have one place where birds shit on ...

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...e of MVJ: 3.1. Neutrosophy: <philosophy> (From Latin "neuter" - neutral, Greek "sophia" - skill/wisdom) A branch of philosophy, introduced by Flore... ...y A) Etymology: Neutro-sophy [French neutre < Latin neuter, neutral, and Greek sophia, skill/wisdom] means knowledge of neutral thought. B) Defini... ... different. 44 His irony against politicians: "the politicians of the ancient world were always talking about morals and virtue, ours speak on n... ...formulas, concepts); b) material ideas (embodied in art canvas, sculptures, architectures, machines, tools). Creativity and inventiveness... ...acred Hindu text "Bhagavad-Gita", found in the "Mah ābhārata", one of the ancient Sanskrit epics, Lord Krishna lays the complete knowledge of life to... ..., the bad and idealization, as spirit necessity, are exaggerations. (...) Greeks' <measure> was excessive as the hybrid which broke it. Their serenit... ...stem (LP) has the values: ‘true’, ‘false’, and ‘both true and false’. The ancient Indian metaphysics considered four possible values of a statement: ...

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...s Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased empero... ...lves on his lap while above the couch was a television showing a drama of an ancient Korean period linked with reverberating melancholic Buddhist melo... ... might have seemed original long after the Great Hymn of Aten was written in Ancient Egypt. In constructing another paragraph she began to ask herself... ... an old man in ancient garb. At the age of four she could not recognize the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus sculpted into the cloud or a cloud shaped o... ...his time. You have a body and garments that I would ascribe as being Ancient Greek and godessesque. So, what is it?" "So haughty and so cold. And I... ... In the frothy suds she tried to sculpt the rough external shapes of the ice sculptures that she and Kato had made during the snow festivals of Sappor... ...uring the snow festivals of Sapporo. With her fingers she traced these suds-sculptures the way they once were as ice, but the suds only lasted for a ...

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...eived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of Lond...

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... other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever ri- valled this astonishing metropolis in... ...and within that zone she comprehended not only all the great cities of the ancient world, but so per- fectly did she lay the garden of the world in ev... ...for those who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days;* the total penalty is paid down at once. As respected the ha... ...ome is represented as a very small kind of sparrow, but which, both to the Greeks and the Romans, was known by a name im- plying a regal station (prob... ... oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia; the conquest of Parthia;... ... and a fact which we have nowhere seen noticed, that the ancients, whether Greeks or Romans, had no eye for the picturesque; nay, that it was a sense ... ...—which had a high value as works of art, even in the Aurea Domus, from the sculptures which adorned them. He now prepared for flight; and, sending for...

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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordinary track of tourists. Thither we must now accompany him, and endeavor to m...

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...IN JUNE that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be ca... ... rich, harmonious glow and variety of color. But the frescos were now very ancient. They had been rubbed and scrubbed by old Stein and many a predeces... ... in the hollow of a great tree, the pair spent a happy wedded life in that ancient neighborhood where now stood Donatello’s tower. From this union spr... ...ilvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in a... ...c imagination showed its overflow and gra- tuity of device in the manifold sculptures which it lavished as freely as the water did its shifting shapes... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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... of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, are subjected to very different hand... ...mprovisation of Italy, can easily form an idea of Demodocus and Phemius.”— Ancient Greece, p. 94.] But poverty soon drove him to Cumæ. Having passed o... ... aside the fact that we must not expect consistency in a mere romance, the ancients had a superstitious belief in the great age of trees which grew ne... ...s [Note: I trust I am justified in employing this as an equivalent for the Greek leschai.] of the old men, and delighted all by the charms of his poet... ... as must be indispensably sup- posed for long manuscripts, among the early Greeks, was thus one of the points in Wolf’s case against the primitive int... ...pe wrecked, seems to prove beyond a doubt, that the pronun- ciation of the Greek language had undergone a considerable change. Now it is certainly dif... ...iquities of the British Museum,” p. 198 sq. The monument itself (T owneley Sculptures, No. 123) is well known.] is depictured, and not 31 Pope feel h...

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...erpretation of their value. In practice they had long sunk into forms. But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and ap... ...n consequence unread,) on the toi- lette and the wardrobe of the ladies of ancient Palestine. Hartmann was a respectable Oriental scholar, and he pub-... ... yields a strong presumption that he has exhausted it. The male costume of ancient Pales- tine is yet to be illustrated; but, for the female, it is pr... ...eans could have been discovered by the learned for putting a stop to him. [Greek Text: Aperantologia] was his forte; upon this he piqued himself, and ... ..., my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text: Cap Omega, Cap Phi] SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE SCENE THE FIRST THE... ...hich it was fastened. Such a dress is seen upon many of the figures in the sculptures of 46 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume Two Persepo... ...at well-known under habiliment, which in Hebrew is called Ch’tonet, and in Greek and Latin by words of similar sound. 2 In this stage of its progress... ...fashion in use, was, however, the prevailing one—as we learn both from the sculptures at Persepolis, and from the costume of the High Priest. Great as...

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...cus, they say, was ever esteemed a man of the greatest sanctity of all the Greeks; and Cychreus, the Salaminian, was honored at Athens with divine wor... ...ry in Crete; that the Cretans, in former times, to acquit themselves of an ancient vow which they had made, were used to send an offering of the first... ...oddess had the name of Epitrapia. When he arrived at Crete, as most of the ancient histori- ans as well as poets tell us, having a clue of thread give... ...ow husbandry; and from this coin came the expression so frequent among the Greeks, of a thing being worth ten or a hundred oxen. After this he joined ... ...nstituted the games, in emulation of Hercules, being ambitious that as the Greeks, by that hero’s appoint- ment, celebrated the Olympian games to the ... ...ary , which name signifies purification, and the very day of the feast was anciently called Februata; but its name is equivalent to the Greek Lycaea; ... ... sumptuous buildings, porticoes and baths, still less to his paintings and sculptures, and all his industry about these curiosities, which he collecte...

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...ivil disobedience or revolt. Now, when we con- sider how intimate, and how ancient, was the connection 9 Thomas de Quincey press voice of God. Such a... ...lating general expres- sions (such as recorded a moral indignation against ancient fallacies or evasions connected with the dispute) into direct ebull... ... saw young Mrs. Harvey, as well as Colonel Watson. And amongst them was an ancient German gentle- man, to what century belonging I do not know, who ha... ...nd when she was *Falsely, because poxphuxeos rarely, perhaps, means in the Greek use what we mean properly by purple, and could not mean it in the Pin... ...t the purpureus of the ancients might have been evaded by attending to its Greek designation, namely, porphyry-colored: since, said he, porphyry is al... ...uth is, colors were as loosely and latitudinarially dis- tinguished by the Greeks and Romans as degrees of affinity and consanguinity are everywhere. ... ...ellished, recommended to the affections of men, and hallowed by the votive sculptures, as I may say, of that affec- tion, gathering in amount from age...

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...the care of the family priest, one Bannister, who taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Tw... ...y one should imagine I am not in earnest, I desire him to reflect that the ancients (to say the least of them) had as much genius as we: and that to t... ...ll that is left us is to recommend our productions by the imitation of the ancients; and it will be found true, that, in every age, the highest charac... ...ore they who say our thoughts are not our own, be- cause they resemble the ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like ... ...but only seem to be such, they have a wonderful variety in them, which the Greek was a stranger to. He exceeds him in regularity and brevity, and fall... ...ling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, 380 And the world’s victor s... ...nfuse The softer spirit of the Sapphic Muse. The polish’d pillar different sculptures grace; A work outlasting monumental brass. Here smiling Loves an...

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...a banished man and a stranger at the head of a body of barbar- ians. Among Greek commanders, Eumenes of Cardia may be best compared with him; they wer... ...e greatest part of the Libyan tribes under his subjection, with an army of Greeks, raised out of the colonies of the Olbians and Myceneans placed here... .... 35 Plutarch’s Lives But when Craterus and Antipater, having subdued the Greeks, advanced into Asia, with intentions to quell the power of Perdiccas... ... there was a man, named Diopithes, at Sparta, who had a great knowledge of ancient oracles, and was thought particularly skillful and clever in all po... ...ian expeditions against them. Out of the fore- sight of which it was, that anciently Lycurgus, in three sev- eral laws, forbade them to make many wars... ...ficient to recover the glory of it, and to raise it to 82 V olume Two its ancient greatness. For as we see in human bodies, long used to a very stric... ...uline look, that reminded people of the faces of Hercules in paintings and sculptures. It was, moreover, an ancient tradition, that the Antonys were d...

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...BLE TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN VULGATE DILIGENTLY COMPARED WITH THE HEBREW, GREEK, AND OTHER EDITIONS IN DIVERS LANGUAGES DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSION 1609, 15... ...ng as he made thee swear. 7 So he went up, and there went with him all the ancients of Pharao’s house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt. 8 And ... ...nd this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go and gather together the ancients of Is- rael, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fath... ... he had commanded. 29 And they came together, and they assem- bled all the ancients of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron spoke all the words which ... ... for ten cubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures. 25 And it stood upon twelve oxen, of which three looked towards... ...ght that the laver might be set thereon, having its grav- ings, and divers sculptures of itself. 36 He engraved also in those plates, which were of br... ...the king of the Medes and Persians. 21 And the he goat, is the king of the Greeks, and the great horn that was between his eyes, the same is the rst ... ...rince of the Persians. When I went forth, there appeared the prince of the Greeks coming. 21 But I will tell thee what is set down in the scripture of...

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...’—kissed’— ’ dressed’ (5 53). Shelley may have first seen the word in “The Ancient Mariner”; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seem... ... their thin shadows down the rugged slope, And nought but gnarled roots of ancient pines* _530 Branchless and blasted, clenched... ...ated thresholds. I have conversed with living men of genius. The poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, and mod- ern Italy, and our own country, has been ... ...f of moonstone carved, did keep A glimmering o’er the forms on every side, Sculptures like life and thought, immovable, deep-eyed. _585 52 52 52 5... ... and did with softest light inform _635 The shadowy dome, the sculptures, and the state Of those assembled shapes—with clinging charm Sin... ...female choirs was thronged: the loveliest Among the free, grouped with its sculptures rare; _2100 As I approached, the morning’s golden mist... ...ume. 231 Shelley PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE. CE. CE. CE. CE. The Greek tragic writers, in selecting as their subject any portion of their na... ...: Dante indeed more than any other poet, and with greater success. But the Greek poets, as writers to whom no resource of awakening the sympathy of th... ...race remains among his papers. The third was the “Prometheus Unbound”. The Greek tragedians were now his most familiar companions in his wanderings, a...

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... is contradictory. If the tenement se- lected for this honour could not be ancient and embrowned, it should at least have been detached. There is a ch... ... barrack which is ornamented with a rugged mediaeval tower, a relic of the ancient fortifications, known to the Tourangeaux of today as the Tour de Gu... ...re de Tours. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone... ...med by a wing which, on the right, comes forward. This front, covered with sculptures, is of the richest, stateliest effect. The court is approachcd b... ... piles itself, on a great scale, carried up by galleries, arches, windows, sculptures, and supported by the extraordinarily thick buttresses of which ... ...nd fearfully; they hang back, and seem to say, “Oh, dear!” These elaborate sculptures, full of in- genuous intention and of the reality of early faith... ...fatal progres- sion, the dark rigidity, of one of the tragic dramas of the Greeks. Jean Calas, advanced in life, blameless, bewil- dered, protesting. ... ... is so associated with a charming facial oval, a dark mild eye, a straight Greek nose, and a mouth worthy of all the rest, that it conveys a presumpti...

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...ls and shrill merriment over head. Here were old brick tombs with curious sculptures on them, and quaint gravestones, some of which bore puffy little... ...hall say not a word more than may sooner or later be needful) was the most ancient in the town. The clay of the original settlers had been incorpo ra... ...ught I know it still exists in the same guise,) it did not appear to be an ancient structure, nor one that would ever have been the abode of a very we... ...of the blood of this being; for, mean as his station looks, he comes of an ancient and noble race, and was the noblest of them all! Let me alone, Ned,... ...pture of wood, like what we have seen on the marble sarcophagus of the old Greeks. It has, too, a lock, elaborately ornamented and in laid with silve... ...oric; there was a volume of trans lations of Mother Goose’s Melodies into Greek and Latin, printed for private circulation, and with the Warden’s nam... ..., etc., as if year after year had been spent in bringing these veg etable sculptures to perfection. In one of the gardens, more over, the ingenious ... ...d was piled up in the virgin soil. Old tombs there were too, with numerous sculptures on them; and quaint, mossy gravestones; although all kinds of mo... ...w others had read, and from that of his beloved Uni versity, crabbed with Greek, rich with Latin, drawing into itself, like a whirlpool, all that men...

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... life, which will come naturally to the surface in the de- scription of an ancient house which, at the period when this history begins, was one of the... ... and modes of life now rule the day, and soon nothing will be left of that ancient Flemish life but the warmth of its hospitality, its traditional Spa... ...hich found expression in the name,—the House of Claes. The whole spirit of ancient Flanders breathed in that mansion, which afforded to the lovers of ... ...y projecting or retreating to the depth of an inch, giving the effect of a Greek moulding. The glass panes, which were small and dia- mond-shaped, wer... ...shes, the sills, the copings, were dusted oftener than the most pre- cious sculptures in the Louvre. The front of the house bore no signs of decay; no... ...is disappearing. Now-a-days everything is changing; furniture is made from Greek models; wherever you go you see helmets, lances, shields, and bows an...

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...would neither admit that they worshipped more gods than one because of the Greeks, nor deny the divinity of Christ because of the Jews. They dreaded t... ...al uniformity. The emperor himself, albeit unbaptised and very ignorant of Greek, came and seated himself in the midst of Christian thought upon a gol... ... him.) But when one argues, one finds oneself suddenly in the net of those ancient controversies between species and individual, between the one and t... ...old religions derive from a patriarchal phase. God is in those systems the Ancient of Days. I know of no Christian attempt to represent or symbolise G... ...n are figures far past the prime of their vigour. These are gods after the ancient habit of the human mind, that turned perpetually backward for cause... ...hrines, praying places, temples and retreats, the creation of pictures and sculptures. It is not necessary to have priestcraft and an organised church...

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...ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richardson’s Dictionary. tan, Hebrew. ^ o& , Greek. CETUS, Latin. WHAEL, Anglo Saxon. HV AL, Danish. WAL, Dutch. HWAL, S... ...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ...did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did Chapter 1 Loomings 17 the Greeks give it a separate deity, and make him the own brother of Jove? Sure... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ... name of a cele brated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil Dam; from her, hopped ove... ...ers, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow white ... ...ial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on t... ...a of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every co...

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...llen; a.s. walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’ s Dictionary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW A... ...hese extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extra... ... of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this i... ... as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, t... ...he name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped ove... ...rs, the white forked flame being held the holiest on the altar; and in the Greek mythologies, Great Jove himself being made incarnate in a snow-white ... ...l delu- sions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscru- pulous times when on... ...a of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every co...