A popular account of discoveries at Nineveh, abridged [from Nineveh and its remains]. |
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... covered , and this site satisfactorily identified . The ruins in Assyria and Babylonia , chiefly huge mounds , apparently of mere earth and rubbish , had long excited curiosity from their size and evident antiquity . They were the only ...
... covered , and this site satisfactorily identified . The ruins in Assyria and Babylonia , chiefly huge mounds , apparently of mere earth and rubbish , had long excited curiosity from their size and evident antiquity . They were the only ...
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... covered in digging the foundations ; and under the mosque containing the tomb he was shown three very narrow and apparently ancient passages , one within the other , with several doors or apertures . He next examined the largest mound ...
... covered in digging the foundations ; and under the mosque containing the tomb he was shown three very narrow and apparently ancient passages , one within the other , with several doors or apertures . He next examined the largest mound ...
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... covered are those on the palaces of Darius and Xerxes at Persepolis , over the tomb of Darius , and in the rock tablets of Behistun . The latter are by far the most extensive and valuable . They contain a history of the principal events ...
... covered are those on the palaces of Darius and Xerxes at Persepolis , over the tomb of Darius , and in the rock tablets of Behistun . The latter are by far the most extensive and valuable . They contain a history of the principal events ...
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... covered with grass , and showing scarcely any traces of the work of man except where the winter rains had formed ... covering a considerable extent of country on the right bank of the Tigris . At the time of our visit the country had ...
... covered with grass , and showing scarcely any traces of the work of man except where the winter rains had formed ... covering a considerable extent of country on the right bank of the Tigris . At the time of our visit the country had ...
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... covering a gentle slope , and overlooking the dark blue waters of a lake- like bay ; the richly carved cornice or ... covered with flowers of every hue . Amidst this luxuriant vegetation were partly concealed a few fragments of bricks ...
... covering a gentle slope , and overlooking the dark blue waters of a lake- like bay ; the richly carved cornice or ... covered with flowers of every hue . Amidst this luxuriant vegetation were partly concealed a few fragments of bricks ...
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Seite 54 - 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.
Seite 323 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
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Seite 49 - Sheikh could be prevailed upon to descend into the pit, and convince himself that the image he saw was of stone. " This is not the work of men's hands...
Seite 254 - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: 20 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Seite 253 - 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.
Seite 307 - Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...
Seite 216 - How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen ? 25 Am I now come up without; the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
Seite 54 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
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