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Strona vii
... travellers , from Rawolf and Benjamin of Tu- dela downward . But less is known of Assyria , which now constitutes a portion of the Turkish em- fire ; and there is no general account of the present state of the two provinces , although ...
... travellers , from Rawolf and Benjamin of Tu- dela downward . But less is known of Assyria , which now constitutes a portion of the Turkish em- fire ; and there is no general account of the present state of the two provinces , although ...
Strona viii
... travellers to our geographical knowledge of the interesting country which occupies the basin of the Tigris and Eu- phrates . May , 1841 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. General Description of Mesopotamia and Assyria viii PREFACE .
... travellers to our geographical knowledge of the interesting country which occupies the basin of the Tigris and Eu- phrates . May , 1841 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. General Description of Mesopotamia and Assyria viii PREFACE .
Strona 24
... traveller who is crossing the mountains of Kurdistan is glad to draw his cloak tightly about him , to protect his person from the cold blasts that descend from the ice - covered peaks . Thus , too , the date - tree yields its luscious ...
... traveller who is crossing the mountains of Kurdistan is glad to draw his cloak tightly about him , to protect his person from the cold blasts that descend from the ice - covered peaks . Thus , too , the date - tree yields its luscious ...
Strona 29
... traveller , in passing over the face of the country , now almost a desert , meets everywhere with vestiges which prove how completely traversed it once was by such arteries of fructification . It is remarkable , too , that all these ...
... traveller , in passing over the face of the country , now almost a desert , meets everywhere with vestiges which prove how completely traversed it once was by such arteries of fructification . It is remarkable , too , that all these ...
Strona 36
... traveller , lay beyond the former course of the Tigris and Nahrawan , and was , no doubt , connected with it . The whole country east of the Hye is indeed of a very low and marshy character , " while the dry land on the banks of the ...
... traveller , lay beyond the former course of the Tigris and Nahrawan , and was , no doubt , connected with it . The whole country east of the Hye is indeed of a very low and marshy character , " while the dry land on the banks of the ...
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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.