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I can still see the trees and bushes growing smaller and smaller as I followed them up its huge slant with my eye, till they became a feathery fringe on the distant summit. This symmetrical Pyramid of Cheops this solid mountain of stone reared by the patient hands of men this mighty tomb of a forgotten monarch dwarfs my cherished mountain. For it is four hundred and eighty feet high.
At the foot of the Pyramid of Cheops a gesticulating, vociferous throng of Bedouins crowded about us, shouting in Arabic mixed with a few intelligible English words.
For the question is not this: Are the pyramids needed, but this is the will of the pharaoh to be accomplished, once it is uttered. So, Pentuer, this pyramid is not the tomb of Cheops, but the will of Cheops, a will which had more men to carry it out than had any king on earth, and which was as orderly and enduring in action as the gods are.
But right before us is the dominating mass of Shiva Temple, with Isis Temple and Cheops Pyramid guarding it on the right. To the left, new architectural forms and masses come out into clearer view, two of these being stupendous structures of great beauty and majesty that guard the approach to Shiva Temple. These are Osiris and Horus Temples, the latter being in front. Tower of Set.
Suddenly there swept over David a wave of feeling such as had passed over Kaid, though of a different nature. Those who had built the pyramids were gone, Cheops and Thotmes and Amenhotep and Chefron and the rest.
INTRODUCTION. By Henry Cabot Lodge. I Solon's Words of Wisdom to Croesus. II Babylon and Its Capture by Cyrus. III The Pyramid of Cheops. IV The Story of Periander's Son. I The Athenians and Spartans Contrasted. II The Plague at Athens. III The Sailing of the Athenian Fleet for Sicily. IV Completion of the Athenian Defeat at Syracuse. I The Character of Cyrus the Younger.
It is built of polished stone, and is covered with carvings of animals. To make it took ten years, as I said or rather to make the causeway, the works on the mound where the pyramid stands, and the underground chambers, which Cheops intended as vaults for his own use; these last were built on a sort of island, surrounded by water introduced from the Nile by a canal.
I did think I could leave the father of the man who's going to marry my daughter for a second alone with the things. There's no morality among collectors none! I'd trust a syndicate of Jesse James, Captain Kidd and Dick Turpin sooner than I would a collector. My Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty! I wouldn't have lost it for five thousand dollars!"
Each side of the Pyramid of Cheops is about as long as the Capitol at Washington, or the Sultan's new palace on the Bosporus, and is longer than the greatest depth of St. Peter's at Rome which is to say that each side of Cheops extends seven hundred and some odd feet. It is about seventy-five feet higher than the cross on St. Peter's.
Suddenly there swept over David a wave of feeling such as had passed over Kaid, though of a different nature. Those who had built the pyramids were gone, Cheops and Thotmes and Amenhotep and Chefron and the rest.
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