Travels in Mesopotamia, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1827 - 571 páginas |
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... Hillah ; the former , perhaps , the country of the Anakites - the second , of the Hittites - and the * " Can the leopard change his spots , or the Æthiop his skin ? " + Genesis , chap . xv . v . 18. — The Kennizzites , spoken of in the ...
... Hillah ; the former , perhaps , the country of the Anakites - the second , of the Hittites - and the * " Can the leopard change his spots , or the Æthiop his skin ? " + Genesis , chap . xv . v . 18. — The Kennizzites , spoken of in the ...
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... Hillah , on the Euphrates . The latter track is now rendered unsafe , from there being a large tribe in possession of both banks of the river , who give refuge to all the desperate characters of the surrounding country , and who live ...
... Hillah , on the Euphrates . The latter track is now rendered unsafe , from there being a large tribe in possession of both banks of the river , who give refuge to all the desperate characters of the surrounding country , and who live ...
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... Hillah . In the next place , the situation of El Madeien is , according to all report , so much more favorable than this for freshness and coolness , from its vicinity to the river , its wood , & c . that nothing would be more ...
... Hillah . In the next place , the situation of El Madeien is , according to all report , so much more favorable than this for freshness and coolness , from its vicinity to the river , its wood , & c . that nothing would be more ...
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... Hillah and the ancient Babylon . We found here a number of Persian devotees , going in and out of the courts of the temple ; and before the outer gate was a sort of fair , exactly like that held in the square before the Holy Sepulchre ...
... Hillah and the ancient Babylon . We found here a number of Persian devotees , going in and out of the courts of the temple ; and before the outer gate was a sort of fair , exactly like that held in the square before the Holy Sepulchre ...
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... letter from Mr. Rich , for the governor of Hillah , and one from the Pasha of Bagdad , for the military commander in the neighbourhood of that place. JOURNEY FROM BAGDAD TO THE RUINS OF BABYLON . Journey from Bagdad to the Ruins of Babylon.
... letter from Mr. Rich , for the governor of Hillah , and one from the Pasha of Bagdad , for the military commander in the neighbourhood of that place. JOURNEY FROM BAGDAD TO THE RUINS OF BABYLON . Journey from Bagdad to the Ruins of Babylon.
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Aleppo ancient appearance Arabs Arbela arch Arrian Babylon Bagdad banks bazārs Belus Benjamin of Tudela bricks building built called camels caravan caravanserai castle centre chief chiefly Christians colour court Ctesiphon D'Anville Desert Diarbekr distance dress dwellings east eastern Edessa edifice Egypt encamped Euphrates feet fifty gardens gate going ground Hadjee halted height Herodotus Hillah hills horses hour hundred inhabitants inscriptions journey khan Koords l'Euphrate le Tigre Mardin masonry Memoir Mesopotamia miles minarets Mohammedan mosque mounds mountains Mousul nearly night Nineveh Nisibeen Nisibis observed Orfah palace party Pasha passed Persian piastres plain portion present qu'il remains Rennel Rich river road Roman ruins says seemed seen Seleucia Sheikh side Sinjar square stadia stone Strabo stream summit sun-set Syria Tartars temple tent thought thousand Tigre Tigris tomb towers town travellers Turkish Turks village Wahabis walls whole Yezeedis Yézidis
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Página 417 - 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. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; And their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; And owls shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
Página 303 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 230 - The Son of man goeth as it is written of him : but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! it had been good for that man if he had not been born. 25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
Página 70 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to -go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Página 428 - 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 303 - The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, And of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: And there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases ; And there is none end of their corpses ; they stumble upon their corpses...
Página 441 - Because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Página 229 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him; and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, ' Give this man place ;' and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Página 309 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it...
Página 19 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.