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ISIS and OSIRIS.
wise and subtle Princes who formerly governed this
land ’ for perceiving, say they, that the Egyptians were
naturally of a light disposition, apt to change and fond
of every novelty, and that the greatness of their num-
bers rendered them invincible, whilst they were guided
by sober counsels, and adted in mutual concert-—he
hereupon devised this sort of Superstition, whilst they
were yet dispersed up and down in their several habi-
tations, as a certain means of propagating eternal dis-
cord and quarrels amongst them. For as amongst the
different species of animals, which he enjoined them to
73*
o
reverence and woriliip, there were some that were na-
turally at
again tha
others we
as each p
favourite
o
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oQ
- —J , - —
copolltes οι Ξ.ω
whom th
memory,
polis presu
in revenge
os their en
z: Φ
in sacrifice Ξ-
did that ο =”
— m
war betw< Ξ
— Tt·
me os them
i nation, as
□resaw, that
of its own
uries might
„ and even
ito mutual
for even at
out the Zy-
; wolf does,
i our own
le of Kyno*
the Pike*
ed animals
iering them
ner as they
on a civil
sides, after
vere at last
wise and subtle Princes who formerly governed this
land ’ for perceiving, say they, that the Egyptians were
naturally of a light disposition, apt to change and fond
of every novelty, and that the greatness of their num-
bers rendered them invincible, whilst they were guided
by sober counsels, and adted in mutual concert-—he
hereupon devised this sort of Superstition, whilst they
were yet dispersed up and down in their several habi-
tations, as a certain means of propagating eternal dis-
cord and quarrels amongst them. For as amongst the
different species of animals, which he enjoined them to
73*
o
reverence and woriliip, there were some that were na-
turally at
again tha
others we
as each p
favourite
o
Φ
0
oQ
- —J , - —
copolltes οι Ξ.ω
whom th
memory,
polis presu
in revenge
os their en
z: Φ
in sacrifice Ξ-
did that ο =”
— m
war betw< Ξ
— Tt·
me os them
i nation, as
□resaw, that
of its own
uries might
„ and even
ito mutual
for even at
out the Zy-
; wolf does,
i our own
le of Kyno*
the Pike*
ed animals
iering them
ner as they
on a civil
sides, after
vere at last