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... Inhabitants . -Tribes . - Arabs , and their Locations . - Kurds . - Habits . - Face of the Country . - Mountains.- Rivers.- Euphrates . - Its Course . - Scenery and Places along its Banks . - Periods of Rise and Fall . - The Tigris and ...
... Inhabitants . -Tribes . - Arabs , and their Locations . - Kurds . - Habits . - Face of the Country . - Mountains.- Rivers.- Euphrates . - Its Course . - Scenery and Places along its Banks . - Periods of Rise and Fall . - The Tigris and ...
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... Inhabitants . -Tribes . - Arabs , and their Locations . - Kurds . - Habits . - Face of the Country . - Mountains.- Rivers.- Euphrates . - Its Course . - Scenery and Places along its Banks . - Periods of Rise and Fall . - The Tigris and ...
... Inhabitants . -Tribes . - Arabs , and their Locations . - Kurds . - Habits . - Face of the Country . - Mountains.- Rivers.- Euphrates . - Its Course . - Scenery and Places along its Banks . - Periods of Rise and Fall . - The Tigris and ...
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... inhabitants retired thither , carrying with them their arts and sciences ; but this colony must be carefully dis- tinguished from the true and ancient Chaldea , the birth- place of Terah and Abraham , the mother - country of the wise ...
... inhabitants retired thither , carrying with them their arts and sciences ; but this colony must be carefully dis- tinguished from the true and ancient Chaldea , the birth- place of Terah and Abraham , the mother - country of the wise ...
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... inhabitants who form the agricultural population , and the dwellers in the towns , there are a vast number of wandering tribes , both Arabs and Kurds , who roam over its surface , paying little regard to any govern- ment whatever . The ...
... inhabitants who form the agricultural population , and the dwellers in the towns , there are a vast number of wandering tribes , both Arabs and Kurds , who roam over its surface , paying little regard to any govern- ment whatever . The ...
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... inhabitants might otherwise be induced to make . Owing to these causes , as well as from the influence of a bad government , Mesopo- tamia and Assyria , which comprise in their extent some of the richest land in the world , are reduced ...
... inhabitants might otherwise be induced to make . Owing to these causes , as well as from the influence of a bad government , Mesopo- tamia and Assyria , which comprise in their extent some of the richest land in the world , are reduced ...
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according Ainsworth ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Assyria Babel Babylon Babylonia Bagdad banks Belus Birs bricks building built called canal capital Chaldeans chief chiefly Christian common Crassus crossed Ctesias Ctesiphon Cyrus death described desert Diarbekir district east eastern empire enemy Euphrates farther feet former Greeks ground gypsum height Herodotus Hillah hills horse inhabitants Jezirah Kasr Khabour king Kurdistan Kurds land limestone Mardin marshes Medes mentioned Mesopotamia miles monarch Mosul mounds mountains Mujelibé Nebuchadnezzar Nestorian Nimrod Nineveh Ninus Nisibin observed occupied Orfa Pacha palace Parthians passed Persian plain present prince provinces reign remains remarkable Rich Rich's rising river rock Roman ruins Scripture seen sheik Shinar side Sinjar Solymaneah sovereign species square Strabo stream Surenas Syria Taurus Temple tent thick Tigris tion towers town tract traveller tribe troops village walls whole Xenophon yards Yezidees
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Página 41 - 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.
Página 53 - 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 71 - 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 59 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs...
Página 65 - I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Página 65 - While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken ; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Página 65 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Página 61 - Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Página 65 - I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Página 59 - I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.