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... Pliny , in the first century of the Christian æra , speaks of it as then standing , and with quoting his words I shall , for the present , close my observations on this ever memorable TOWER and TEMPLE : Adhuc ibi ( Babyloni ) Jovis Beli ...
... Pliny , in the first century of the Christian æra , speaks of it as then standing , and with quoting his words I shall , for the present , close my observations on this ever memorable TOWER and TEMPLE : Adhuc ibi ( Babyloni ) Jovis Beli ...
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... Pliny , who says , Literas semper arbitror Assyrias * . But the question concerning the origin and antiquity of alphabetic writing , if the mysterious characters on these bricks can be thus denominated , is too important to admit of so ...
... Pliny , who says , Literas semper arbitror Assyrias * . But the question concerning the origin and antiquity of alphabetic writing , if the mysterious characters on these bricks can be thus denominated , is too important to admit of so ...
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... Pliny : after having drawn the outlines of their design upon the piece of silk or linen , they filled each com- partment of it with different sorts of gums proper to absorb the va- rious colours ; then they dipped it for a moment in a ...
... Pliny : after having drawn the outlines of their design upon the piece of silk or linen , they filled each com- partment of it with different sorts of gums proper to absorb the va- rious colours ; then they dipped it for a moment in a ...
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... Pliny tells us these letters were at first only sixteen in number ; but that , about the time of the Trojan war , Palamedes added four new letters , and afterwards Simonides added four more , which completed the Greek * Supplement , vol ...
... Pliny tells us these letters were at first only sixteen in number ; but that , about the time of the Trojan war , Palamedes added four new letters , and afterwards Simonides added four more , which completed the Greek * Supplement , vol ...
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... Pliny has in- formed us that OBELISKS were sacred to the sun , in the following forcible passage , " Obeliscos , SOLIS NUMINI sacratos . Radiorum ejus argumentum in effigie est , et ita significatur nomine Ægyptio * . " And how is the ...
... Pliny has in- formed us that OBELISKS were sacred to the sun , in the following forcible passage , " Obeliscos , SOLIS NUMINI sacratos . Radiorum ejus argumentum in effigie est , et ita significatur nomine Ægyptio * . " And how is the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 28 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Seite 26 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Seite 66 - 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 118 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Seite 118 - And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Seite 60 - Judah; and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; and to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
Seite 117 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
Seite 64 - Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words." Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Seite 26 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Seite 68 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.