The Great Cities of the Ancient World, in Their Glory and Their Desolation ... With IllustrationsG. Routledge & Company, 1852 - 380 Seiten |
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ancient antiquity appear architecture Assyrian Athenian Athens Auramazda Baalbek Babylon beauty bricks building called centre character China Chinese Christian church colossal columns Confucius Damascus Darius Darius Hystaspis deities desolation Divine early earth east eastern edifice Edom Egypt Egyptian emperor empire favour feet glory Greece Greek hath heaven height Heliopolis Herodotus hill holy honour human hundred idolatry inhabitants inscription Jerusalem Jews Judah Karnak king Kitto Lord Luxor magnificence miles monarch monuments mounds mountains Mycenae nations nature Nebuchadnezzar Nineveh occupied original ornaments palace Palmyra Persepolis Persian Petra pillars plain portico present prince probably prophecy pyramidal reader reign religion remains remarks rock Roman Rome ruins sacred says Scripture sculpture seems sepulchre shew side Smyrna splendour stone taste temple Thebes thee thou tion tombs tower traveller Tyre Tyrians valley Veii Vishnu walls whole worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 20 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Seite 23 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. 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.
Seite 193 - She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks : among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her : all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Seite 19 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Seite 115 - Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Seite 19 - ... the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
Seite 83 - For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
Seite 38 - 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.
Seite 113 - Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate. 17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
Seite 112 - Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.