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Illustrations of the Bible From the Monuments of Egypt
Illustrations of the Bible From the Monuments of Egypt Author:William Cooke Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1838 Original Publisher: Charles Tilt Subjects: Bible Egypt History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Middle East Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and wh... more »ite OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. EGYPTIAN AGRICULTURE. Agriculture in Egypt appears to have been taken under the protection of the priests and kings. Even in the representation of a victorious monarch coming to pay homage to the gods for their protection, the importance of agriculture is manifested amid all the " pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ;" when the king comes forward to present his offering, a priest holds out to him a bundle of corn, which the monarch cuts through with a sickle before depositing his gifts on the altar. Husbandry indeed was the parent of civilization; but in Egypt there were many circumstances which rendered it of peculiar importance. The most influential of these was the limited extent of the fertile ground, the complete dependence of the farmer on irrigation for success, and the small proportion of the year to which agricultural operations were consequently confined. Indeed, the most important part of the Egyptian farmer's labours was to superintend the distribution of the overflowings of the Nile, and this must have been a very difficult task in those seasons when the river did not rise to a sufficient height. Hence Moses particularly alludes to the abundance of rivers and springs in Canaan, when he describes the superiority of the Promised Land over that of Egypt. " The land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from when...« less