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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... seen the defeat and death of Crassus ; the retreat of Marc Antony ; the fall of the apostate Julian ; the disgraceful peace of his success- or ; and the changing fortunes of the bold Heraclius . Events so various and important must ...
... seen the defeat and death of Crassus ; the retreat of Marc Antony ; the fall of the apostate Julian ; the disgraceful peace of his success- or ; and the changing fortunes of the bold Heraclius . Events so various and important must ...
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... seen are the black hair- tents of the Bedouins , rising among patches of cultivation and clusters of date - trees . Approaching the latter place , canals for irrigation become more frequent ; and near the remains of ancient Babylon ...
... seen are the black hair- tents of the Bedouins , rising among patches of cultivation and clusters of date - trees . Approaching the latter place , canals for irrigation become more frequent ; and near the remains of ancient Babylon ...
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... seen , the Shut el Arab , though Abulfeda calls it still the Digleh or Tigris all the way to the sea . Among the rivers of importance which have their rise in Mesopotamia are the Khabour ( ancient Chaboras ) , and the Hermas or Huali ...
... seen , the Shut el Arab , though Abulfeda calls it still the Digleh or Tigris all the way to the sea . Among the rivers of importance which have their rise in Mesopotamia are the Khabour ( ancient Chaboras ) , and the Hermas or Huali ...
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... seen in all directions , prove the extent to which the system was carried . Nearly twenty - two miles below the point of derivation of the Kutha canal , as we are told by the same geogra- pher , the Frat divided itself into two streams ...
... seen in all directions , prove the extent to which the system was carried . Nearly twenty - two miles below the point of derivation of the Kutha canal , as we are told by the same geogra- pher , the Frat divided itself into two streams ...
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... seen stretching out like a vast sea . These swamps are fed by the Euphrates at the season of its great rise , the embankments which restrained its wa- ters having been destroyed . They communicate with the Roomyah and Lemlum Marshes ...
... seen stretching out like a vast sea . These swamps are fed by the Euphrates at the season of its great rise , the embankments which restrained its wa- ters having been destroyed . They communicate with the Roomyah and Lemlum Marshes ...
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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...