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 |
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... tion of printing in the West , produced an effect on the literary labours of Europe which might have been anticipated . The direct influence of the Grecian mind on civilisation was at once per- ceived ; and the more poetical history of ...
... tion of printing in the West , produced an effect on the literary labours of Europe which might have been anticipated . The direct influence of the Grecian mind on civilisation was at once per- ceived ; and the more poetical history of ...
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... tion and of arts which made them no less celebrated than their Egyptian brethren . Hence a variety of canals and lakes , some of extraordinary size , which were used to draw off the superfluous waters of the great river , and those ...
... tion and of arts which made them no less celebrated than their Egyptian brethren . Hence a variety of canals and lakes , some of extraordinary size , which were used to draw off the superfluous waters of the great river , and those ...
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... tion the present Nomads of Mesopotamia and Persia , and the former gives an animated description of the march of the Shammar tribe , one of the most important of the roving tribes which at the present day occupy the great plains between ...
... tion the present Nomads of Mesopotamia and Persia , and the former gives an animated description of the march of the Shammar tribe , one of the most important of the roving tribes which at the present day occupy the great plains between ...
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... tion who the god was , who is here mentioned under the name of Nisroch . Yet there are cer- tain approximations to the know- ledge of this question which shall be here stated . In the first place , all the Semitic languages have ...
... tion who the god was , who is here mentioned under the name of Nisroch . Yet there are cer- tain approximations to the know- ledge of this question which shall be here stated . In the first place , all the Semitic languages have ...
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... tion can be maintained . The name Ur remained in those countries till a late period ; and Bochart ( i . cap . 15 ) thinks that it could not have been far from Corduene where the ark of Noah rested ; while it is possible that the radical ...
... tion can be maintained . The name Ur remained in those countries till a late period ; and Bochart ( i . cap . 15 ) thinks that it could not have been far from Corduene where the ark of Noah rested ; while it is possible that the radical ...
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