ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming;: Wherein Is Shewn the Right of Burial, and Funeral Ceremonies, Especially That of Preserving Bodies After the Egyptian Method. Together With an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and Their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of Their Embalming. As Also a Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the

Name: ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ; Or, the Art of Embalming;: Wherein Is Shewn the Right of Burial, and Funeral Ceremonies, Especially That of Preserving Bodies After the Egyptian Method. Together With an Account of the Egyptian Mummies, Pyramids, Subterranean Vaults and Lamps, and Their Opinion of the Metempsychosis, the Cause of Their Embalming. As Also a Geographical Description of Egypt, the Rise and Course of the
Author: Greenhill, Thomas

Greenhill, Thomas · 1721

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Reader thou in this _Frontispiece_ may’st see How _mortal Man_ seeks _Immortalitie_; His beauteous _Frame_ he sees with speed decline, And soon dissolv’d by _Death_, tho’ form’d by _Hands Divine_. _Sadness_ in Widows Robes deplores his _State_, While the _Young Brood_ inspect the _Book of Fate_; Pensive they view the _Rise_ and _Fall_ of _Man_, With Tears survey his Transitory _Span_. But his great _Soul_, full of Cœlestial _Flame_, Disdaining _Death_, strives to…

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