Which preposition to use with egypt
Their ancestors, the Machouacha, threatened Egypt in the time of Moses and took possession of it, and more than twenty centuries later, with the Fatimides, converted Spain to the Mussulman faith.
This at least is the word of the historians who write in the interest of the Romans, and regard the queen of Egypt with horror and with fear.
The region which extends from the frontiers of Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger, was in ancient times inhabited by a people to whom we give the general name of Berbers, but whom the ancients, particularly those of the Eastern portion, knew under the name of Moors.
In anticipation of the advance the Quartermaster-General's department, with the foresight which characterised that department and all its branches throughout the campaign, searched Egypt for the proper stamp of asses for pack transport in the hills.
"And it came to pass, the self same day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies."
When his army is disseminated along the coast of Africa, I might realise my dream of taking Egypt from India.
The latter, however, had not arrived from Egypt at the time when the missing man left for Paris, but the mummy was inspected on the fourteenth of October at Mr. Bellingham's house by Dr. Norbury of the British Museum, in the presence of the donor and his solicitor, and the latter was authorised to hand over the complete collection to the British Museum authorities when the tomb-furniture arrived; which he has since done.
Cadmus is accredited with having introduced it from Egypt into Greece about five centuries later.
Bereave Egypt of its Homer!
"The probability of such a remote date is enhanced by the certainty that a high civilization existed in Egypt as long ago as 5000 B.C."
All were alike invisible to the Pontiff, who, with the dim flicker of his lamp, could no more discern Judaea wed with Egypt on the frescoed ceiling than, with the human limitation of his faculties, he could foresee that the ill-reputed rooms would one day harbour a portion of the Vatican Library, so greatly enriched by himself.
Were it not for the silence of Philo and Josephus, which I am unable to explain if the Wisdom of Solomon was written so long before Christ, I might perhaps incline to believe it composed shortly after, if not during, the persecution of the Jews in Egypt under Ptolemy Philopator.
The German commitments in Europe were too overwhelming to permit of their rendering the Turks adequate support for a renewed effort against Egypt after the failure of the attack on the Canal in February 1915.
I feel it also my duty to state on every occasion that I, belonging to an army sent to Egypt in order to expel them from that country, have been an eyewitness of the good and beneficial reforms and improvements that the French made in Egypt during a period of only three years.
Few men, however, left the house of the so-called Duke of Egypt without having their purses stolen, and but few women escaped without having the skirts of their dresses cut.
Indeed, there is a look of old Egypt about the fruit.
They are much more rigorous, it appears, with the ladies in Egypt than at Constantinople.
Now Sextus was governing the Syrians, for Caesar, since he was quaestor and also a relative of his, had entrusted to his care all Roman interests in that quarter on the occasion of his own march from Egypt against Pharnaces.
As far as the light of history can be projected into the past, we see Egypt among the first and foremost on the threshold of civilization.
Take thou these people hence, before the sun hath lit the skies; Get thee beyond the border of this land of death and woe!" Across the plains of Egypt through the shadows of the night Came the sound as of an army moving onward steadily, And their leader read his way by the stars' eternal light While all the legions followed on their journey to the sea.
The Bagdad caliphs, called Abbassidesclaiming descent from Abbas, the uncle of Mahometremained rulers of Egypt until 1517, or until within twenty years of the death of the last Abbasside.)
He subdued all unto Pharaoh, and all his people from the last terms of Egypt unto the utterest ends of the same, except the land longing to the priests, which was given to them by the king, to whom were given victuals openly out of all the barns and garners, and therefore they were not compelled to sell their possessions.
There are mistaken insinuations that she thought the chances of Sextus Pompey, with his naval supremacy, better than those of Antony, but these stories refer to his brother Cnaeus, who visited Egypt before Pharsalia.
To be truly great, a man must blend a life of activity with a life of study,like Moses, who matured the knowledge he had gained in Egypt amid the deserts of Midian.
Locks were known in Egypt above four thousand years since, as was inferred by M. Denon, from some sculptures of the great temple of Karnac, representing locks similar to those now used in that country.