The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World: Or, The History, Geography, and Antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia, Tom 2J. Murray, 1864 |
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... army of Xerxes on foot only . The author of the Book of Judith assigns to Holofernes an infantry force ten times as numerous as his cavalry . The Assyrian monuments entirely bear out the general truth involved in all these assertions ...
... army of Xerxes on foot only . The author of the Book of Judith assigns to Holofernes an infantry force ten times as numerous as his cavalry . The Assyrian monuments entirely bear out the general truth involved in all these assertions ...
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... army . The more simply equipped of the heavy archers are clothed in a coat of mail , which reaches from their neck to their middle , and partially covers the arms . Below this they wear a fringed tunic reach- ing to the knees , and ...
... army . The more simply equipped of the heavy archers are clothed in a coat of mail , which reaches from their neck to their middle , and partially covers the arms . Below this they wear a fringed tunic reach- ing to the knees , and ...
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... army . They work in pairs , one pulling at the tree by its branches while the other attacks the stem with his weapon . After Sennacherib's time we find but few altera- See Layard's Monuments , 1st Series , Pl . 76 . tions in the ...
... army . They work in pairs , one pulling at the tree by its branches while the other attacks the stem with his weapon . After Sennacherib's time we find but few altera- See Layard's Monuments , 1st Series , Pl . 76 . tions in the ...
Strona 43
... army of Xerxes " carried lances , daggers , and wooden clubs knotted with iron . " ( pónaλa ξύλων τετυλωμένα σιδήρῳ . Herod . vii . 63 ) . It is possible that this may be a sort of periphrasis for maces , which were not in use among the ...
... army of Xerxes " carried lances , daggers , and wooden clubs knotted with iron . " ( pónaλa ξύλων τετυλωμένα σιδήρῳ . Herod . vii . 63 ) . It is possible that this may be a sort of periphrasis for maces , which were not in use among the ...
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... army - to divide the troops into companies and form distinct bodies of the spearmen , the archers , and the cavalry . " The Assyrian troops were organised in this way , at least from the time of Sennacherib , on whose sculptures we find ...
... army - to divide the troops into companies and form distinct bodies of the spearmen , the archers , and the cavalry . " The Assyrian troops were organised in this way , at least from the time of Sennacherib , on whose sculptures we find ...
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Strona 277 - And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.
Strona 443 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Strona 391 - Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything : let them not feed, nor drink water...
Strona 503 - 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.
Strona 392 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Strona 437 - And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth : and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine : let us eat and drink ; for to-morrow we shall die.
Strona 402 - And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Strona 442 - Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Strona 436 - There is a crying for wine in the streets ; All joy is darkened, The mirth of the land is gone. In the city is left desolation, And the gate is smitten with destruction.
Strona 445 - Gordon ; and every day, from the rising up of the sun to the going down of the same, pray for his health and vigour.