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... Semiramis or Nitocris , or the founder of Babylon , whoever he was , there is no necessity to dilate , as every trace of them , except what the idle fancy of travellers has sur- mised , must long since have disappeared ; but such , in ...
... Semiramis or Nitocris , or the founder of Babylon , whoever he was , there is no necessity to dilate , as every trace of them , except what the idle fancy of travellers has sur- mised , must long since have disappeared ; but such , in ...
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... Semiramis or Nebuchadnezzar , or whoever it was that built , or beautified , or enlarged , the city of Babylon . The tower of observation stood proudly prominent in the centre , the gaze , the won- der , of an admiring world ! The above ...
... Semiramis or Nebuchadnezzar , or whoever it was that built , or beautified , or enlarged , the city of Babylon . The tower of observation stood proudly prominent in the centre , the gaze , the won- der , of an admiring world ! The above ...
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... For , in confirmation of this account , he adds , that Semiramis employed , in building Babylon , two millions of men , who built a stadium or furlong each day F 2 35 well as by that analogy to which we must often ...
... For , in confirmation of this account , he adds , that Semiramis employed , in building Babylon , two millions of men , who built a stadium or furlong each day F 2 35 well as by that analogy to which we must often ...
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... Semiramis herself , and of which a few vestiges only now remain ; or let him turn his eye to that more stupendous WALL which protects China from the inroads of the Tartar hordes , in some places carried over mountains of the steepest ...
... Semiramis herself , and of which a few vestiges only now remain ; or let him turn his eye to that more stupendous WALL which protects China from the inroads of the Tartar hordes , in some places carried over mountains of the steepest ...
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... Semiramis , the oldest of the name , ( as there seem to have been several , ) for she also was elevated to those stars which her subjects so fervently adored . SEMIRAMIS WAS ALSO CANONIZED , AND BECAME THE DEA SYRIA OF THE BABYLONIANS ...
... Semiramis , the oldest of the name , ( as there seem to have been several , ) for she also was elevated to those stars which her subjects so fervently adored . SEMIRAMIS WAS ALSO CANONIZED , AND BECAME THE DEA SYRIA OF THE BABYLONIANS ...
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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.