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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 Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, Their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, StupGreenhill, Thomas

Philosophy

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 Nile, the Temper, Constitution and Physic of the Inhabitants, Their Inventions, Arts, Sciences, Stup

Greenhill, Thomas

Burial -- Early works to 1800; Embalming -- Early works to 1800; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Early works to 1800; Mummies -- Early works to 1800

To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery
 THE PREFACE.
 A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage
    this Work with Sculptures.
 A List of such Noblemen and Gentlemen as have been pleas’d to Encourage
    this Work by Subscriptions.
 Amico admodum colendo D. THOMÆ GREENHILL eximiam suam ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ
    edenti χαίρειν καὶ εὐπραγεῖν.
 Viro Admodùm Erudito Thomæ Greenhill, Chirurgo in ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑΝ, sive
    Artem Pollincturæ, ab illo editam.
 TO HIS Ingenious Friend Mr. Thomas Greenhill.
 To his Friend the Author.
 ERRATA.
 LETTER I.
 LETTER II.
 LETTER III.
 A CATALOGUE OF Authors quoted in this Book.
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                        To the Right Honourable
                                 THOMAS

  Earl of _Pembroke_ and _Montgomery_; Baron _Herbert_ of _Caerdiff_;
    Lord _Rosse_, _Par_, _Marmion_, St. _Quintin_ and _Shurland_; Lord
    Lieutenant of the County of _Wilts_ and _South-Wales_; Knight of
    the most Noble Order of the Garter, and President of Her Majesties
    most Honourable Privy Council.


 _My Lord_,

I count it no small Happiness, in an Age so Censorious as this, to have
found a Patron so universally admir’d, that I am under no apprehension
of being thought a Flatterer, should I make use of and indulge all the
Liberty of a profest Panegyrist; but that is what a sense of my own
Inability and Your Lordship’s Modesty forbids: It is sufficient for me,
that, under Your Lordship’s known Learning in Antiquity and History,
both Antient and Modern, my weak Endeavours at restoring a _lost
Science_ may be secure from the Assaults of the _Envious_ or the
_Ignorant_.

I have nothing to fear from the Animosities of Parties, since how
inveterate soever they may be against each other, yet they all agree in
this one Point, to Esteem and Honour Your Lordship, who are the
_Atticus_ of the Times, by Your Virtues endear’d to all sides, and each
believing that not to Value Your Lordship, would be to discover such an
aversion to Honour and Virtue as the worst of Men would abhor.

Your Virtues, my Lord, are so conspicuous, that they give you that
Natural and Rational Right to true Nobility, which the _Roman_ Satyrist
so justly exprest:

               ——_Nobilitas sola est atq; unica Virtus._

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