Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c., and one of the eight foreign Associates of the National Institute of France.

  • Thomas Young
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Miscellaneous works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c., and one of the eight foreign Associates of the National Institute of France. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EGYPTIAN. GHEEK. dess, like Orus the son of Isis and Osiris, who fought in the cause of his father Osiris; and being pious and beneficent towards the gods, has bestowed much silver and corn, and much treasure, on the temples of Egypt, (7) [and has spent much] in order to render the land of Egypt tranquil, and to esta- blish the temples properly : and in all things within his lawful power has been be- nignly disposed : of the mili- tary imposts and tributes of Egypt, some he has lowered, others he has remitted alto- gether, in order that private individuals and all other men may prosper in the days of his (8) [reign] : and what was owing to the crown from the Egyptians, and from all under his dominion, amounting to a large sum, he remitted altogether; those who were imprisoned, and who were strongly accused of crimes for many years, he pardoned : he ordered also that the pro- perties of the gods, and the collections of corn and silver made annually, .. (9) [likewise] also the por- tions belonging to the gods god and goddess, as Orus the son of Isis and Osiris, assisting his father Osiris, well disposed towards (11) [the worship of] the gods, has brought to the temples supplies of money and corn, supported many expenses in order to render the cli- mate of Egypt wholesome, and established the sacred rites, (12) and to his utmost power has done good, and of the existing reversions and tributes collected in Egypt has totally remitted some and lightened others, so that both the people, and all other per- sons might be in (13) plenty under his government, and the debts due to the king from the in- habitants of Egypt, and other parts of his kingdom, which were numerous, he has for- given to the people and those who were confined (14) in prison, and long engaged in law-suits, he had delivered from their perplexities, con- firmed the claims on the re- venues of the temples, and the annual stated contributions to them of CO (15) rn and money, and likewise the proportions allotted to the gods from the
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