Nilometer

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Lanchester concludes that “words longer mean what they once did. It is not a process intended to deceive, but, like the Nilometer, it confines knowledge to a priesthood—the priesthood of people who can speak money.”

From Forbes • Aug. 7, 2014

The priests proclaimed how the flood stood on the Nilometer, and the husbandman made corresponding preparations for a scanty or an abundant harvest.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

Citadel and Mosque of Mahomet Ali The old Nilometer, for measuring the depths29 of the Nile, which was erected in 716, is of interest.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes

A great book is the Nilometer which measures intellectual life as the original Nilometer measured the life and fertility of the land of Egypt.

From Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way by Pittenger, William

All these things were regulated by the indications of the Nilometer.

From Xerxes Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob