This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...do you feel?" "As if I were one of those donkeys there," replied the naturalist. 'My knees shake like theirs, and I think and I wish neither more nor less than they do; that is to say--I would we were in our stalls." "If you can think," said Pentaur smiling, "you are not so very bad." "I had a good thought ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...do you feel?" "As if I were one of those donkeys there," replied the naturalist. 'My knees shake like theirs, and I think and I wish neither more nor less than they do; that is to say--I would we were in our stalls." "If you can think," said Pentaur smiling, "you are not so very bad." "I had a good thought just now, when you were staring up into the sky. The intellect, say the priestly sages, is a vivifying breath of the eternal spirit, and our soul is the mould or core for the mass of matter which we call a human being. I sought the spirit at first in the heart, then in the brain; but now I know that it resides in the arms and legs, for when I have strained them I find thought is impossible. I am too tired to enter on farther evidence, but for the future I shall treat my legs with the utmost consideration." " Quarrelling again you two? On again, men!" cried the driver.. The weary wretches rose slowly, the beasts were loaded, and on went the pitiable procession, so as to reach the mines before sunset. The destination of the travellers was a wide valley, closed in by two high and rocky mountain-slopes; it was called Ta Mafka by the Egyptians, Dophka by the Hebrews. The southern cliff-wall consisted of dark granite, the northern of red sandstone; io a distant branch of the valley lay the mines in which copper was found. In the midst of the valley Uarda. //. H rose a hill, surrounded by a wall, and crowned with small stone houses, for the guard, the officers, and the overseers. According to the old regulations, they were without roofs, but as many deaths and much sickness had occurred among the workmen in consequence of the cold nights, they had been slightly sheltered with palm-branches brought from the oasis of the Amalekites, at no great...
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