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Upon The Antiquity Of The Arabians, Their Language And Letters, And The Origin Of The Chinese And Their Empire.
UPON THE ANTIQUITY OF THE ARABIANS , THEIR LANGUAGE AND LETTERS , AND THE ORIGIN OF THE CHINESE AND THEIR EMPIRE .
BY MRS . COLONEL HARTLEY . I . V TWO P . AUTS . —PAET IITHE first inhabitants of Egypt were noted for their justice and piety , and the horror they entertained of shedding human blood , until a fierce Pagan race , called Hycksoes , envying their happiness and the richness of their countrybroke in upon them like a torrentdestroying all before
, , them , and , taking possession of the happy place of their ancestors , cast the unfortunate inhabitants into slavery , compelling them , upon the pain of death , to worship not only idols , but beasts , and even insects . Terrified by the daily massacres of their people , they fled into the deserts , but the greatest part of them agreed to build ships , or boats , rather than fall into the hands of such monsters , and to try their fortune at sea . Their great FatherMezzoraim * had taught them the art of
, , making boats , to cross the branches of the great river Nile , which even before tlie flood had been extensively acted upon . These people , flying from persecution , originated the Chinese empire , and also the Chinese language . Josephus says , that Hycksoes , or Hyckloes , was an old Egyptian word , signifying King of Shepherds , or King of Beasts , an appellation given to them by the native Egyptians , as a name of disgrace and contempt . It is certain that this infamous race altered the
government of that interesting country , and their conduct seems to corroborate this curious statement . How the early colonists from Egypt arrived in China is a speculative question ; ancient writers talk of the lesser sea , which means the straits of Babelmandel . This passage , no doubt , let them into the vast Eastern ocean , and it is likely that the colonists were carried to China , for there are the strongest reasons for believing that the Chinese , notwithstanding their vast distance from
Egypt , came originally from that country , about the time of its invasion by the Hycksoes , before adverted to . Whoever compares the account given by the Bishop of Meaux , in the third part of his Universal History of the lives and manners of the first Egyptians , with those of the Chinese , will find them agree in many essential points ; as 1 st , their boasted antiquity ; 2 nd , their early knowledge of arts and sciences ; 3 rd , their veneration for learned men , who have the
preference before others ; 4 th , their policy ; 5 th , their unaccountable superstition for their deceased parents ; 6 th , their annually visiting the famil y of their ancestors ; 7 th , their religious worship , & c . As for the last , it is well known that the first Egyptians worshipped the Sun long before the gods Apis and Anubis were introduced among them by their idolatrous invaders : and the Chinese to this day worship the material heaven , as is seen in the condemnation of the Jesuits by Clement the Eleventh ; lastlthe of the
y , use pyramids , which in China as in Egypt had reference to the solar worship , ( see the account of them in Moreri . ) No om , or no on , signifies in the old Egyptian language the house of the sun . Another affinity exists in their language , for in ancient Egypt the words
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Upon The Antiquity Of The Arabians, Their Language And Letters, And The Origin Of The Chinese And Their Empire.
UPON THE ANTIQUITY OF THE ARABIANS , THEIR LANGUAGE AND LETTERS , AND THE ORIGIN OF THE CHINESE AND THEIR EMPIRE .
BY MRS . COLONEL HARTLEY . I . V TWO P . AUTS . —PAET IITHE first inhabitants of Egypt were noted for their justice and piety , and the horror they entertained of shedding human blood , until a fierce Pagan race , called Hycksoes , envying their happiness and the richness of their countrybroke in upon them like a torrentdestroying all before
, , them , and , taking possession of the happy place of their ancestors , cast the unfortunate inhabitants into slavery , compelling them , upon the pain of death , to worship not only idols , but beasts , and even insects . Terrified by the daily massacres of their people , they fled into the deserts , but the greatest part of them agreed to build ships , or boats , rather than fall into the hands of such monsters , and to try their fortune at sea . Their great FatherMezzoraim * had taught them the art of
, , making boats , to cross the branches of the great river Nile , which even before tlie flood had been extensively acted upon . These people , flying from persecution , originated the Chinese empire , and also the Chinese language . Josephus says , that Hycksoes , or Hyckloes , was an old Egyptian word , signifying King of Shepherds , or King of Beasts , an appellation given to them by the native Egyptians , as a name of disgrace and contempt . It is certain that this infamous race altered the
government of that interesting country , and their conduct seems to corroborate this curious statement . How the early colonists from Egypt arrived in China is a speculative question ; ancient writers talk of the lesser sea , which means the straits of Babelmandel . This passage , no doubt , let them into the vast Eastern ocean , and it is likely that the colonists were carried to China , for there are the strongest reasons for believing that the Chinese , notwithstanding their vast distance from
Egypt , came originally from that country , about the time of its invasion by the Hycksoes , before adverted to . Whoever compares the account given by the Bishop of Meaux , in the third part of his Universal History of the lives and manners of the first Egyptians , with those of the Chinese , will find them agree in many essential points ; as 1 st , their boasted antiquity ; 2 nd , their early knowledge of arts and sciences ; 3 rd , their veneration for learned men , who have the
preference before others ; 4 th , their policy ; 5 th , their unaccountable superstition for their deceased parents ; 6 th , their annually visiting the famil y of their ancestors ; 7 th , their religious worship , & c . As for the last , it is well known that the first Egyptians worshipped the Sun long before the gods Apis and Anubis were introduced among them by their idolatrous invaders : and the Chinese to this day worship the material heaven , as is seen in the condemnation of the Jesuits by Clement the Eleventh ; lastlthe of the
y , use pyramids , which in China as in Egypt had reference to the solar worship , ( see the account of them in Moreri . ) No om , or no on , signifies in the old Egyptian language the house of the sun . Another affinity exists in their language , for in ancient Egypt the words