Observations on the remains of ancient Egyptian grandeur and superstition, as connected with those of Assyria: forming the appendix to observations on the ruins of Babylon / By the Rev. Thomas Maurice.

  • Maurice, Thomas, 1754-1824.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Observations on the remains of ancient Egyptian grandeur and superstition, as connected with those of Assyria: forming the appendix to observations on the ruins of Babylon / By the Rev. Thomas Maurice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. 4. On the superstitious Rites of the Ancient Egyp- tians, AND PARTICULARLY ON THE NEFARIOUS WOR- SHIP PAID TO BEASTS, ESTEEMED SACRED, AND CALLED IN Scripture THE ABOMINATIONS OF EGYPT*. p. 74to 187. 5. On the presumed CHANGE OF THE COURSE of THE River Euphrates; the Causes which neces- sarily INDUCED THAT ChANGE ; AND THE CONSEQUENT Destruction OF Babylon. p. 188 to 222. * The great length of this Dissertation on the ancient symbolical worship of Egypt, occu- pying alone above 100 pages of letter-press, will, it is hoped, be excused on account of the important argument, resulting from it, as stated towards the conclusion—“ If a nation, so pro- verbially wise throughout antiquity as were the Egyptians, could descend to the baseness of worshipping, under whatever plea, the animals and objects above enumerated, how highly im- portant, how indispensably necessary, was become a DIVINE REVELATION, to reclaim from such gross idolatries a degenerate and apostate world! Could this be the enlightened race who, first among the Heathens, taught in their schools the sublime dogma of the Immortality of the Soul?” &c. &c.—Appendix, p. 140.