 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...by a person lying on the rock with his ear in contact with the stone. ' May we not admit, (he adds) that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, in passing...priests in the statue of Memnon ? Perhaps, when " the rosy-fingured Aurora rendered her son, the glorious Memnon, vocal,'' the voice was that of a man hidden... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...by a person lying on the rock with his ear in contact with the stone. ' May we not admit, (he adds) that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, in passing...priests in the statue of Memnon ? Perhaps, when " the rosy-fingured Aurora rendered her son, the glorious Memnon, vocal,'' the voice was that of a man hidden... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 pages
...against the elastic spangles of mica, that intercept the crevices, contribute to modify the sounds ? May we not admit, that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt,...the statue; but the observation of the natives of the Oroonoko, which we relate, seems to explain in a natural manner what gave rise to the Egyptian... | |
 | 1831 - 624 pages
...against the elastic spangles of mica that intercept the crevices, contribute to modify the sounds? May we not admit that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt,...the jugglery of the priests in the statue of Memnon ?' That these phenomena are perfectly analogous to those of the statue of Memnon may be considered... | |
 | 1831 - 632 pages
...elastic spangles of mica that intercept the crevices, contribute to modify the sounds ? May we not adroit that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, in passing...the jugglery of the priests in the statue of Memnon ?' That these phenomena are perfectly analogous to those of the statue of Memnon may be considered... | |
 | David Brewster - 1834 - 370 pages
...against the elastic spangles of mica lhat intercept the crevices contribute to modify the sounds ? May we not admit that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt,...led to the jugglery of the priests in the statue of Memnou?" This curious case of the production of sounds in granite rocks at sunrise might have been... | |
 | Light - 1838 - 298 pages
...of Egypt, in passing incessantly up and down the Nile, had made the same observation on some rocks of the Thebaid, and that the music of the rocks there...the jugglery of the priests in the statue of Memnon ?" It is also a singular fact, that about the same time Humboldt was traversing the wilds of South... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1840 - 294 pages
...asks, "that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, in passing incessantly up and 174 STATUE OF MEMNOIf. down the Nile, had made the same observation on some...priests in the statue of Memnon ? Perhaps when the rosy-fingersd Aurora rendered her son, the glorious Memnon, vocal, the voice was that of a man hidden... | |
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... out through the crevices ? Does not the impulse of the air against the elastic spangles of mica, that intercept the crevices, contribute to modify the sounds ? May we not admit, that the ancient inhabitants of Egypt, in passing incessantly up and... 
