| James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - 422 Seiten
...Assyrians," says Ezekiel, " captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in...upon their heads, all of them princes to look to." Brilliant though the Assyrians were, mighty and gorgeous though the empire was which they established,... | |
| George Rawlinson - 1885 - 792 Seiten
...CHAPTER VI. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. " Girded with girdles upon thplr loins, exowOInK in rtyprt attiro upon their heads, all of them princes to look to. after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldiea, the laud of their nativity."— Ezulc. xxiil. 15. THE manners and customs of the Babylonians,... | |
| 1885 - 554 Seiten
...pourtrayeci upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles 15 upon their loins, 'exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians "in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. And 'as soon as... | |
| 1885 - 558 Seiten
...pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles '5 upon their loins, 'exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians 6in Chaldea, the land of their nativity. And 'as soon as... | |
| Clara Erskine Clement Waters - 1887 - 908 Seiten
...Ezekiel, chap, xxiii., verse 14, there were " men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon...to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity." Some writers assume that this must have been a description of... | |
| Ernest Babelon - 1889 - 340 Seiten
...speaking of Jerusalem : " she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldaeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins,...to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldsea." The art of enamelling brick, handed down by the Babylonians to the Persians of the Achaemenid... | |
| John Milton - 1891 - 322 Seiten
..."shepherd lad" of Comus. 620. To see to. An obsolete expression = ' to behold;' cf. Ezekiel xxiii. 15 : "girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in...upon their heads, all of them princes to look to," and Joshua xxii. 10. Skilled, ie versed in the lore of; cf. PL IX. 42 : "Of these Nor skilled, nor... | |
| J. Milton - 1891 - 306 Seiten
..."shepherd lad" of Camus. 620. To see to. An obsolete expression = ' to behold;' cf. Ezekiel xxiii. 15 : "girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in...upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, " and Jos/nta xxii. 10. Skilled, ie versed in the lore of; cf. PL IX. 42 : "Of these Nor skilled, nor... | |
| 1891 - 884 Seiten
...Jewish kingdom the palace walls of Babylonia were adorned with " images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their head«, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of... | |
| Basil Thomas Alfred Evetts - 1892 - 522 Seiten
...gorgeously with blue, all of them desirable young men, riding upon horses " ; and of the Babylonians, " girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in...to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity." The mighty armies of Assyria and Babylonia — which were the... | |
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