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SETH (Egyptian Set, Stb or StS), by the Greeks called Typhon, was depicted as an animal yvj that has been compared with the jerboa by some, and with the okapi by others, but which the

ETAH, a town and district of British India, in the Agra division of the United Provinces. The town is situated on the Grand Trunk road. Pop. (1901) 8796. The district has an area of 1737 sq. m. The district consists for the most part of an elevated alluvial pl

... or caste by violence Stone, barre or plummett, or such other thinge. It not refuseth any prince or kynge." Mr Montague Shearman, to whose volume on AtUetics in the Badminton series the reader is referred, notes that Sir Thomas Elyot, who wrote at about the sam ...

... al agent working for exceptional ends; Elisha is the " holy man of God which passeth by us continually " (2 Kings iv. 9), mixing in the common life of the people. It is impossible to draw up a detailed chronology of his life. In most of the events narrated no ...

... e city. (2) In Gen. v. 24, &c. (P), seventh in descent from Adam in the line of Seth; he " walked with God," and after 365 years " was not for God took him." [(i) and (2) are often regarded as both corruptions of the seventh primitive king Evedorachos (Enmedur ...

... nus ( Turan) , Bacchus (Fufluns), Mercury (Turms), Vulcan (Scthlans). Of these, Sethlans is in a way the most important, for he shows a connexion in prehistoric times between Etruria and the East.6 Other deities of Greek origin there were — Ares, Apollo, Herac ...

... by Marcus before the communicants: — "Grace that is before all things, that passeth understanding and words, replenish thy inner man, and make to abound in thee the knowledge of her, sowing in the good soil the grain of mustard seed. The Acts of Thomas, secon ...

... , — both of which hypotheses are frequently denied. Among modern writers, James Seth (Ethical Princ., 1894) resumes Aristotle's position, and places Eudaemonism as the mean between the Ethics of Sensibility (hedonism) and the Ethics of Rationality, each of whi ...

NEPHTHVS, the sister of Osiris and wife of Seth, daughter of Keb and Nut, plays a considerable rdle in the Osiris story. She sided with Isis and aided her to bring Osiris back to life. Isis and Nephthys are often mentioned together as protectresses of the dead ...