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Strona x
... described . - By what Authors . - Extent . -Height of its Walls according to various Authorities . - Structure.- Streets . Intersected by the Euphrates . - Bridge . - New Palace and hanging Gardens . -Temple of Belus . - Described by ...
... described . - By what Authors . - Extent . -Height of its Walls according to various Authorities . - Structure.- Streets . Intersected by the Euphrates . - Bridge . - New Palace and hanging Gardens . -Temple of Belus . - Described by ...
Strona xi
... described . › Page 94 Allusions to them by ancient Authors . From A.D. 917 to 1616. - De scribed by Niebuhr and Beauchamp . - By Olivier . By Rich . - Gen- eral Aspect . - Face of the Country . - Principal Mounds described.- Hill of ...
... described . › Page 94 Allusions to them by ancient Authors . From A.D. 917 to 1616. - De scribed by Niebuhr and Beauchamp . - By Olivier . By Rich . - Gen- eral Aspect . - Face of the Country . - Principal Mounds described.- Hill of ...
Strona xiii
... described . - Ceremonial of the Syrian Church . - March to Diarbekir . - Wadi Zenaar - Approach to Diarbekir . - The City descri bed . - Walls Mosques and Churches . History . - Population.- Sin jar Mountains . Dara.- Nisibin . - Sheik ...
... described . - Ceremonial of the Syrian Church . - March to Diarbekir . - Wadi Zenaar - Approach to Diarbekir . - The City descri bed . - Walls Mosques and Churches . History . - Population.- Sin jar Mountains . Dara.- Nisibin . - Sheik ...
Strona 18
... Assyria have , from the most ancient times , been so intimately connected , both geographically and politically , that they will be most clearly described in conjunction with each other . Herodotus , Strabo , 18 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
... Assyria have , from the most ancient times , been so intimately connected , both geographically and politically , that they will be most clearly described in conjunction with each other . Herodotus , Strabo , 18 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF.
Strona 25
... described as a river of the first order , struggling in an exceedingly tortuous course through numerous obsta- cles ; and , though forming frequent rapids , is still so shal- low that , during the autumn , loaded camels can in some ...
... described as a river of the first order , struggling in an exceedingly tortuous course through numerous obsta- cles ; and , though forming frequent rapids , is still so shal- low that , during the autumn , loaded camels can in some ...
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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 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 Surenas Syria Taurus Temple tent thick Tigris tion towers town tract traveller tribe troops village walls whole Xenophon yards Yezidees
Popularne fragmenty
Strona 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.
Strona 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?
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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?
Strona 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.
Strona 65 - ... the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Strona 61 - Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
Strona 65 - I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: 35 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...
Strona 59 - I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.