Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those Countries, Tom 18A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1850 - 436 |
Z wnętrza książki
Wyniki 1 - 5 z 100
Strona
... Ruins of Akerkúf - Al Hheimer 165 CHAPTER VIII . M. Botta's Discoveries at Khorsabád - Mr . Layard's Discoveries at Nimroud -Koyunjik - Mr . Ross's Discoveries- Kalah Sherghát - Al Hathr -Mr . Ainsworth's Account of a Visit to those Ruins ...
... Ruins of Akerkúf - Al Hheimer 165 CHAPTER VIII . M. Botta's Discoveries at Khorsabád - Mr . Layard's Discoveries at Nimroud -Koyunjik - Mr . Ross's Discoveries- Kalah Sherghát - Al Hathr -Mr . Ainsworth's Account of a Visit to those Ruins ...
Strona
... Ruins from Chardin , Le Brun , Niebuhr , Ker Porter , and other Travellers - Derivation of Greek Art from the Persians - Remarks of Sir William Ouseley - Tombs behind Persepolis - Ruins of Murgháb - Tomb of Cyrus - Pasargada , Ancient ...
... Ruins from Chardin , Le Brun , Niebuhr , Ker Porter , and other Travellers - Derivation of Greek Art from the Persians - Remarks of Sir William Ouseley - Tombs behind Persepolis - Ruins of Murgháb - Tomb of Cyrus - Pasargada , Ancient ...
Strona 13
... ruins ; but we cannot speak with certainty from his description , which some have imagined , though we think erroneously , applied to the ruins of Al Hathr . Lucian confirms its entire decay in his day , which , as a native of Samosata ...
... ruins ; but we cannot speak with certainty from his description , which some have imagined , though we think erroneously , applied to the ruins of Al Hathr . Lucian confirms its entire decay in his day , which , as a native of Samosata ...
Strona 24
... ruins were those upon the right of our road ? " His eyes glistened at the question . " It is more than twenty years , " said he , " since I accom- panied my uncle in a night attack to plunder and destroy that very village , and it has ...
... ruins were those upon the right of our road ? " His eyes glistened at the question . " It is more than twenty years , " said he , " since I accom- panied my uncle in a night attack to plunder and destroy that very village , and it has ...
Strona 60
... ruins of Khorsabad , which was destroyed by fire , may represent the palace in which the elder Sardanapalus perished by fire ; but this is a conjecture upon which nothing but a perfect trans- lation of the inscriptions found there by M ...
... ruins of Khorsabad , which was destroyed by fire , may represent the palace in which the elder Sardanapalus perished by fire ; but this is a conjecture upon which nothing but a perfect trans- lation of the inscriptions found there by M ...
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
Achæmenian Alp Arslan ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bas-reliefs Behistun Botta bricks building bull called capital celebrated century Chaldæans Chaldee character conqueror conquest Ctesias Cuneiform curious Cyrus Darius Darius Hystaspes doubt dynasty early East Ecbatana edifice Egypt emperor empire Euphrates excavations face feet figure Greek Gustasp hand head Herodotus horse Hystaspes inscriptions Istakhr khalif Khorsabád Khosru king Koyunjik labours language Layard length lion Major Rawlinson Medes Media mentioned monarch monuments Mosul mound mountain Muhammedan nations Nebuchadnezzar Nimroud Nineveh original Ormazd palace period Persepolis Persian Persian Empire plain present preserved princes probably provinces reign remains remarkable represented resembling river rock Roman round royal ruins Sassanian says sculptures Shahpúr side Sir R. K. Porter slabs stone Strabo supposed Syria tablets temple throne Timúr tion tomb tower travellers tribes visited walls whole winged writing Xenophon Xerxes Zoroaster
Popularne fragmenty
Strona 27 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Strona 6 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
Strona 32 - The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings : I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
Strona 292 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side : and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had the face of an eagle.
Strona 220 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Strona 34 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: And they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Strona 27 - And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Strona 270 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Strona 16 - For he was wiser than all men ; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol : and his fame was in all nations round about.
Strona 101 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all : and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.