 | 1796 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...Cyclops and Satyrs, of men with eyes in their breads, of men with the heads of dogs, and of animals with the head of a man and the body of a lion, are not fabulous; and that Egypt was anciently governed and iiiftrucled by Daemons. But we cannot devote... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...fire, and were talismans. He saw the animal martichoras, (mentioned four centuries before hy Ctesias,) with the head of a man and the body of a lion, fountains of golden water, men who dwelt below the ground, griffins, the phccnix, the precious stone... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...EGYPTIANS. CHAP. VIII. No. 329. A chase in the desert of the ThcbAld. Tht•bes. CHAP. VIII. THE SPHINX. and some others equally fanciful and unnatural, can...intellect and phyNo. 330. Monsters, in the paintings of Belli Hassan and Thebes. sical force : it is therefore scarcely necessary to * An Austrian nobleman... | |
 | sir John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...amongst fabulous animals must be conceded to the Sphinx. It was of three kinds, — \hej4ndro-Sphinx, with the head of a man and the body of a lion, denoting the union of intellectual and physical power; the Crio-Sphinx, with the head of a ram and... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...amongst fabulous animals must be conceded to the Sphinx. It was of three kinds, — the Andro-Sphinx, with the head of a man and the body of a lion, denoting the union of intellectual and physical power; the Crio- Sphinx, with the head of a ram and... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...is an European misnomer ? No. 329. „. ~-~. A chase in the desert of Thebaid. Thebes. THE SPHINX. and some others equally fanciful and unnatural, can...scarcely necessary to * An Austrian nobleman asked an Bnglish ambassador at Vienna, whose arms presented a griffin and other monsters, " in what forest they... | |
 | 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...animals, the sphinx is certainly the most extraordinary. There are three kinds — the Andro-sphinx, with the head of a man and the body of a lion ; the Krio-sphinx, with the head of a ram and the body of a lion ; and the Hawk-sphinx, with the same... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...amongst fabulous animals must be conceded to the sphinx. It was of three kinds, — the jindro-sphinx, with the head of a man and the body of a lion, denoting the union of intellectual and physical power ; the Crio-sphinx, with the head of a ram and... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...among fabulous animals must be conceded to the sphinx. It was of three kinds, — the Andro-sphinx, with the head of a man, and the body of a lion, denoting the union of intellectual and physical power ; the Crio-sphinx, with the head of a ram and... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...like fire, and acted as talismans upon those who were not initiated in magic. He saw a fearful animal with the head of a man and the body of a lion, with a tail from which bristles grew of the length of a cubit, all as sharp as prickles, which it shot... | |
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The Egyptian sphinx was usually an emblematic figure, representative of the king, and may be considered, when with the head of a man and the body of a lion, as... 
