Personal Narrative of Travels in Babylonia, Assyria, Media, and Scythia, in the Year 1824, Volumen1Henry Colburn, 1827 |
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... built of unhewn stone . The streets are extremely filthy , and so narrow , that by extending the arms , I could touch the walls on both sides . The town is of small extent , comprising a circumference of two miles , and containing a ...
... built of unhewn stone . The streets are extremely filthy , and so narrow , that by extending the arms , I could touch the walls on both sides . The town is of small extent , comprising a circumference of two miles , and containing a ...
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... built towers at the valley gate and fortified them . " * The scarcity of water in Ara- bia , has always made that element of a value , not so well understood in our country , where it is in such abundance . Nearly the first conten- tion ...
... built towers at the valley gate and fortified them . " * The scarcity of water in Ara- bia , has always made that element of a value , not so well understood in our country , where it is in such abundance . Nearly the first conten- tion ...
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... built near the place whence it issues from the rock , for the convenience of bathing . Giafar jumped in , and remained some time ; we followed his example , but the heat made us as quickly jump out again . The village of Poorshur is the ...
... built near the place whence it issues from the rock , for the convenience of bathing . Giafar jumped in , and remained some time ; we followed his example , but the heat made us as quickly jump out again . The village of Poorshur is the ...
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... built entirely of mud ; round it are the huts of the Sheikh's retainers . The interior of the dwelling is entirely destitute of ornament . A carpet was spread for us on the dusty floor , round which we seated ourselves very comfortably ...
... built entirely of mud ; round it are the huts of the Sheikh's retainers . The interior of the dwelling is entirely destitute of ornament . A carpet was spread for us on the dusty floor , round which we seated ourselves very comfortably ...
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... - ravan road leading across the desert to Aleppo . The road was strewed with numerous carcases of camels , and here and there we saw some Martello - shaped towers , which had been built VISIT SOME ANCIENT RUINS . 67 for a protection to.
... - ravan road leading across the desert to Aleppo . The road was strewed with numerous carcases of camels , and here and there we saw some Martello - shaped towers , which had been built VISIT SOME ANCIENT RUINS . 67 for a protection to.
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Aboo Nasir Aga Saikeis Alligator amongst ancient animal appearance Arab Arabian Nights armed Armenian arrived Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonian Bagdad banks Bee-asis boat bricks building built Bussorah Caliph called Calneh Captain Alexander caravanserai ceremony Chosroes covered Ctesiphon curious custom dancing date-trees Desert distance dress Euphrates European feet high females fire formed Futteh gardens Gedrosia Giafar Governor guard Herodotus Hilleh honour horses hour hundred Illyauts Imaum inhabitants Janizaries jereed journey Kermanshah Kisra Koorna Koote land Mahometan March ment mention miles mode morning mound Muscat natives observed ourselves palace party Pasha Pasha of Bagdad passed Persian piastres present Prince remains river round ruins Scripture Seleucia servants Sheikh Shiahs ship side square stone Strabo Syyud Tauk tents Tigris tion told tomb Tower of Babel town traveller tribe Turk Turkish vessels village walls wind women Zobeir
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Página 130 - Thus I was ; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Página 279 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah. and in the places round about Jerusalem, them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Página 229 - When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Página 177 - Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Página 127 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 56 - And he said, Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot ; for the place whereon thou standest is holy.
Página 193 - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Página 185 - And the most proud shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up: and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all round about him.
Página 184 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, Shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; Neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Página 115 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.