This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: . Permit me to reiterate my acknowledgments and Assurances off the obedience and dutiful respects of he which have the honor of subscribing himself, Dear Sir, Your obliged and affectionate Ward, WILLIAM CROTCHET. Of the Pyramids of Egypt.

79. rilHE pirimids of Egypt, is famous piles of- building, raised above five thousand years ago, and still to be seen in the neighbourhood of Grand Cairo. Them served as burial places for the Kings of Egypt; the largest were twenty years in buildin, tho sixty-six thousand men was constantly employed; and thereon were an inscripshon, importing that onlie in Leeks, Onions, and Garlick, and other pulse for the workmen, it cost one thousand eight hundred talons, who amount to about four hundred thousand pounds sterling Of the Labyrinth of Minos. 80. rpHE Labyrinth of Crete was built by De--dalus for King Minos, with inextricable windings and turnings; wherein Dedalus and his Son Icarus with the Monster Minotaur" where afterwards shut up by Minos; but Dedalus making Himself and Son wings escaped from thence. And the Monster, who lived on human flesh, was at length killed by Thesus, Son of Ageus, king of Athens, who had been taught by Ariadne the Kings daughter, to find his way out of the Labyrinth by a clue of thread. Maxims, fyc. 81.

r1HERE is nothing so much worth, as a--mind well instructed. To labour and be content with that a man hath, art a sweet life. Be at peace with many, nevertheless, hath but one counsellor off a thousand. Let reason go before enterprize, and counsel before every action. The hart of fools is in their mouth, but the tongue of the wise is in their heart. (Economy is no disgrace; it is better to live on a little, then outliving a great deal. Honour thy father and thy mother.