By all of which I am reminded of that old testament statement that 'the Lord hardened the heart of Pharoah.'

Pharoah was not wise enough to let those people go, so the God in Moses gave him a hintwhich he failed to take.

Pharoah had the courage of a Christ, coupled with the ethics of a savage, whose only law is his own desire of possession.

That Pharoah expected no such exertion from them is evident from his never requesting it, and from his application to Moses and Aaron.

The truth seems to be, that Pharoah conceived Moses and Aaron to be magicians like his own.

who, as we read (Genesis, chap, xi.) for having interpreted Pharoah's dream, received not only his liberty, but was rewarded with his prince's ring, a collar of gold, and the superintendancy of Egypt.

The marble for the pillars was furnished from the ruins adjacent, called Kesar Farâoun, "Castle of Pharoah" (a name given to most of the old ruins of Morocco, of whose origin there is any doubt).

Not far off, towards the west, are some magnificent ruins of an ancient city, called Kesar Farâoun, or "Castle of Pharoah.

You remember the story of the time when Pharoah in his dream saw the seven fat kine followed and devoured by the seven lean kine; he was told that his dream signified seven years of plenty, to be followed by seven years of famine, and was advised to store up the harvests of the good years against the hard times to follow.

In the case of Pharoah and his Jewish slaves, God manifested his abhorrence of the relation of slavery.

Joseph said to the servants of Pharoah, "Indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews.

The transaction which made the Egyptians the SERVANTS OF PHAROAH, shows entire voluntariness throughout.

How piously the Pharoahs might have quoted the prophecy "Thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they shall afflict there four hundred years."

In the case of Pharoah and his Jewish slaves, God manifested his abhorrence of the relation of slavery.

Joseph said to the servants of Pharoah, "Indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews.

The transaction which made the Egyptians the SERVANTS OF PHAROAH, shows entire voluntariness throughout.

How piously the Pharoahs might have quoted the prophecy "Thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and they shall afflict there four hundred years."

The bodies undergo but little alteration in appearance for centuries; but Mr. M. being tempted to touch the very long nose of one old fellow, who looked "a leathern Pharoah, grinning in the dark," it disappeared in a shower of dust beneath his fingers.

MOSES, Brydone's antimosaical remark, ii. 467; evidence required from him by Pharoah, ii. 150; Song of Moses paraphrased, v. 265.

Or that, not mysticnot fabulous as the rest, but a real garden which Solomon made for his wife, the daughter of Pharoah, king of EgyptWARBURTON "Divested of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry," observes Horace Walpole, "the garden of Alcinous was a small orchard and vineyard with some beds of herbs and two fountains that watered them, inclosed within a quickset hedge."

And to oblige you to make such an excellent Poem on such a subject without any materials but those of simple reality, would be as cruel as the Edict of Pharoah which compelled the children of Israel to manufacture Bricks without the necessary Ingredients.

Some Egyptian pharoahs had been priests who became rulers.

As the civilization was unified by war, representation was replaced by some form of monarchy in which one supreme commander, emperor or pharoah was the final judge and arbiter.

In some cases civil and military authority were merged in one supreme commanderemperor, pharoah.

In the course of the survival struggle, the separate parts of which the civilization was composed began with the local autonomy permitted by confederation, and ended up with one among the many contestants donning the imperial purple and establishing itself as the master and supreme dictatorthe Caesar or Pharoah of the conquered, unified world.