Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural HistoryHarper and brothers, 1842 - 336 páginas |
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... brick , or tile , or glass , or sepulchral urn , to tell that man has lived in a region which now presents to the eye but one vast expanse of arid desert : a howling wilderness , where the only evidence that he still exists is afforded ...
... brick , or tile , or glass , or sepulchral urn , to tell that man has lived in a region which now presents to the eye but one vast expanse of arid desert : a howling wilderness , where the only evidence that he still exists is afforded ...
Página 97
... bricks , well burned in the fire , instead of stones , and slime or bitumen for mortar . But in no part of Upper ... brick would become a measure of necessity ; and the ever- flowing fountains of Hit , which unquestionably furnished the ...
... bricks , well burned in the fire , instead of stones , and slime or bitumen for mortar . But in no part of Upper ... brick would become a measure of necessity ; and the ever- flowing fountains of Hit , which unquestionably furnished the ...
Página 101
... bricks that were used in the building . These were cemented together with melted bitumen , and the moat was lined with the same materials . In each side of the square there were twenty - five portals , making 100 in all , which were ...
... bricks that were used in the building . These were cemented together with melted bitumen , and the moat was lined with the same materials . In each side of the square there were twenty - five portals , making 100 in all , which were ...
Página 102
... brick , in which were small portals furnish- ed with gates of brass corresponding to each of the streets . These parts were united in the middle of the city by a bridge thirty feet in breadth , and not less than a furlong in length ...
... brick , in which were small portals furnish- ed with gates of brass corresponding to each of the streets . These parts were united in the middle of the city by a bridge thirty feet in breadth , and not less than a furlong in length ...
Página 103
... brick , cemented together with plaster , were laid in a bed of bitu- men ; over these were spread thick sheets of lead ; and on this solid terrace was placed suitable mould , deep enough to nourish and support the largest trees . On the ...
... brick , cemented together with plaster , were laid in a bed of bitu- men ; over these were spread thick sheets of lead ; and on this solid terrace was placed suitable mould , deep enough to nourish and support the largest trees . On the ...
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Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with ... James Baillie Fraser Vista de fragmentos - 1842 |
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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 Geographical 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 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. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
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 - 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 - 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 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Página 59 - Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches : for his root was by great waters...
Página 115 - ... whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified masses...