The Egyptian Conception of Immortality by George Andrew Reisner
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The Egyptian Conception of Immortality , by
George Andrew Reisner
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Title: The Egyptian Conception of Immortality
Author: George Andrew Reisner
Release Date: May 4, 2004 [eBook #12255]
Language: English
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THE EGYPTIAN CONCEPTION OF IMMORTALITY
The Ingersoll Lecture, 1911
by
GEORGE ANDREW REISNER
THE INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP
Extract from the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who died in Keene, County of Cheshire, New Hampshire, Jan. 26, 1893.
First. In carrying out the wishes of my late beloved father, George Goldthwait Ingersoll, as declared by him in his last will and testament, I give and bequeath to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where my late father was graduated, and which he always held in love and honor, the sum of Five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a fund for the establishment of a Lectureship on a plan somewhat simila