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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... covered peaks . Thus , too , the date - tree yields its luscious fruit in perfection in the plains of Babylonia , while only the hardier fruits of northern climes can be matured in the orchards of the Kurdish highlands . The mountain ...
... covered peaks . Thus , too , the date - tree yields its luscious fruit in perfection in the plains of Babylonia , while only the hardier fruits of northern climes can be matured in the orchards of the Kurdish highlands . The mountain ...
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... covered , for the most part thickly , with brushwood and timber of moderate size , with a succession of long narrow islands in its bed , on some of which are considerable towns . There are also numerous villages on either side , chiefly ...
... covered , for the most part thickly , with brushwood and timber of moderate size , with a succession of long narrow islands in its bed , on some of which are considerable towns . There are also numerous villages on either side , chiefly ...
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... covered with mud villages imbedded in date - trees , to which suc- ceed huts built neatly of reeds , with earthen forts or castles to protect the crops . Farther down , near Lemlum , the land , being flat , is easily irrigated ; and ...
... covered with mud villages imbedded in date - trees , to which suc- ceed huts built neatly of reeds , with earthen forts or castles to protect the crops . Farther down , near Lemlum , the land , being flat , is easily irrigated ; and ...
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... covered with a tiara or mitre . They anointed their bodies with oil of sesamum , and were par- ticularly lavish of perfumes . Each man carried on his fin- ger a seal - ring , * and in his hand a staff or sceptre , which , by law , was ...
... covered with a tiara or mitre . They anointed their bodies with oil of sesamum , and were par- ticularly lavish of perfumes . Each man carried on his fin- ger a seal - ring , * and in his hand a staff or sceptre , which , by law , was ...
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... covered with them . Pliny mentions a suit of Babylonian hangings for a di- ning - room which cost a sum equal in our money to £ 6458 6s . 8d .; and Plutarch , in his life of Cato , tells us that the stern patriot , having received in a ...
... covered with them . Pliny mentions a suit of Babylonian hangings for a di- ning - room which cost a sum equal in our money to £ 6458 6s . 8d .; and Plutarch , in his life of Cato , tells us that the stern patriot , having received in a ...
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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...