 | Diodorus (Siculus.) - History, Ancient - 1814 - 686 pages
...kings. For the inhabitants of this country little value the short time of this present life; but [tut an high esteem upon the name and reputation of a virtuous...sepulchres of the dead they call everlasting habitations, because they abide in the graves to infinite generations. Therefore they are not very curious in the... | |
 | Diodorus (Siculus.) - History, Ancient - 1814 - 692 pages
...kings. For the inhabitants of this country little value the short time of this present life; but put an high esteem upon the name and reputation of a virtuous...inns, because they stay in them but a little while; hut the sepulchres of the dead they call everlasting habitations, because they abide in the graves... | |
 | Thomas Young - Egyptian language - 1823 - 192 pages
...inhabitants of this country," says Diodorus, Book I. § 51, Wess., in the language of Booth, p. 26, " little value the short time of this present life;...sepulchres of the dead they call Everlasting habitations, because they abide in the graves to infinite generations. Therefore they are not very curious in the... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...feelings of mankind, than in any other way. Dio'lurus Siculus, in speaking of the ancient Egyptians, says, "They call the houses of the living, inns, beca'use they stay in llietn a little while ; but the sepulchres of the dead they call everlotting habitations, because they... | |
 | 1841 - 488 pages
...sitting, but I think they would if they could. and the comparative meanness of their houses, says, " They call the houses of the living inns, because they...sepulchres of the dead they call everlasting habitations, because they abide in the grave to infinite generations. Therefore, they are not very curious in the... | |
 | Periodicals - 1840 - 274 pages
...feelings of mankind, than in any other way. Diodorus Stculus, in speaking of the ancient Egyptians, says, "They call the houses of the living, inns, because they stay in them a little while ; but the sepulchres of the dead they call evertailing habitations, becauie they abide... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1844 - 502 pages
...the Egyptians built their tombs, and the comparative meanness of their private dwellings, he says, " They call the houses of the living, inns, because they stay in them only a little while ; but the sepulchres of the dead they call everlasting habitations, because they... | |
 | Edward Cresy - 1847 - 912 pages
...resuscitated. Indeed, the Egyptians, according to Diodorus Siculus, set little value on the shortness of this present life, but put a high esteem upon the...reputation of a virtuous life, after death; and they called the houses of the living, inns, because they sojourned there a short time ; but the sepulchres... | |
 | Arthur Ashpitel - Architecture - 1867 - 442 pages
...Egyptians built their tombs, and the comparative meanness of their houses, the same author says, " They call the houses of the living inns, because they...sepulchres of the dead they call everlasting habitations, because they abide in the grave to infinite generations. Therefore they are not very curious in the... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Sociology - 1877 - 850 pages
...the meanness of the Egyptians' dwellings as contrasted with the splendour of their tombs, says — " they call the houses of the living inns, because they stay in them but a little while ; but the T 2 sepulchres of tlie dead they call everlasting habitations." As these Egyptian tombs, like their... | |
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... they call the houses of the living, inns, because they stay in them but a little while; but the sepulchres of the dead they call everlasting habitations, because they abide in the graves to infinite generations. 
