Footnotes
- 1.
- The description, here alluded to, may also be found, copied verbatim from Sethos, in the “Voyages d’Anténor.”—“In that philosophical romance, called ‘La Vie de Séthos,’ ” says Warburton, “we find a much juster account of old Egyptian wisdom, than in all the pretended ‘Histoire du Ciel.’ ” Div. Leg. book 4. sect. 14.
- 2.
- A cross was, among the Egyptians, the emblem of a future life.
- 3.
- “On s’étoit même avisé, depuis la première construction de ces demeures, de percer en plusieurs endroits jusq’au haut les terres qui les couvroient; non pas, à la vérité, pour tirer un jour qui n’auroit jamais été suffisant, mais pour recevoir un air salutaire, &c.”—Sethos.
- 4.
- Osiris.
- 5.
- In the language of Plato, Hierocles, &c. to “restore to the soul its wings,” is the main object both of religion and philosophy.
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- See an account of this sensitive tree, which bends down its branches to those who approach it, in M. Jomard’s Description of Syene and the Cataracts.
- 7.
- The province of Arsinoë, now Fioum.
- 8.
- In the original the discourses of the Hermit are given much more at length.
- 9.
- A rank, resembling that of Colonel.
- 10.
- “Une de ces couronnes de grain de corail, dont les vierges martyres ornoient leurs cheveaux en allant à la mort.” Les Martyrs.
Transcriber’s Note
Variations in hyphenation (e.g. “daybreak”, “day-break”, “overhead”, “over-head”) have not been changed.
In the notes, some references are to the wrong pages or out of sequence.
Other changes, which have been made to the text:
| page 32, “alrea d” changed to “already” | |
| page 81, “stirke” changed to “strike” | |
| page 93, “grashopper” changed to “grasshopper” | |
| page 188, quote mark added before “The state of misery” | |
| page 194, “decome” changed to “become” | |
| page 312, quote mark added before “There is, to the north of Memphis” |