Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural History |
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... Capital of Media . - Is forced to raise the Siege and retreat . - Hardships during his Retreat . - Suc ceeds in reaching and crossing the Araxes . - His impatient Obstinacy . . 155 1 -Farther Losses in Armenia . - Augustus Cæsar forces ...
... Capital of Media . - Is forced to raise the Siege and retreat . - Hardships during his Retreat . - Suc ceeds in reaching and crossing the Araxes . - His impatient Obstinacy . . 155 1 -Farther Losses in Armenia . - Augustus Cæsar forces ...
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... capital of Assyria to end his days . In like manner have the plains of Mesopotamia borne witness to the catastrophe of Cunaxa , and the gallant bear- ing of the indomitable ten thousand ; seen the defeat and death of Crassus ; the ...
... capital of Assyria to end his days . In like manner have the plains of Mesopotamia borne witness to the catastrophe of Cunaxa , and the gallant bear- ing of the indomitable ten thousand ; seen the defeat and death of Crassus ; the ...
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... capital was Arbela , in the low lands ; the plains of Dolomenia and Calachene spread around Mosul ; the Gordyæans , Elymæans , and Parætacenians occupied the valleys of the Gordyæan Mountains , at whose foot , towards Kirkook , stretch ...
... capital was Arbela , in the low lands ; the plains of Dolomenia and Calachene spread around Mosul ; the Gordyæans , Elymæans , and Parætacenians occupied the valleys of the Gordyæan Mountains , at whose foot , towards Kirkook , stretch ...
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... capital , which was still maintained by its king Oxyartes . The acute and intelligent observations of Semiramis upon the conduct of the siege first attracted the great monarch's attention ; and the valour and ability which she displayed ...
... capital , which was still maintained by its king Oxyartes . The acute and intelligent observations of Semiramis upon the conduct of the siege first attracted the great monarch's attention ; and the valour and ability which she displayed ...
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... capital a tumulus of the most gigantic proportions . Secure on the throne , Semiramis now thought only of eclipsing the glory of her husband ; and her first act was to build the city of Babylon , the same , we are told , of which the ...
... capital a tumulus of the most gigantic proportions . Secure on the throne , Semiramis now thought only of eclipsing the glory of her husband ; and her first act was to build the city of Babylon , the same , we are told , of which the ...
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Page 41 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord : wherefore it is said, "Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord." And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Page 53 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 71 - 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. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Page 71 - 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.
Page 59 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Page 65 - While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken ; The kingdom is departed from thee.
Page 65 - I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou...
Page 65 - Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
Page 59 - Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches : for his root was by great waters...
Page 115 - ... whole. The other parts of the summit of this hill are occupied by immense fragments of brick-work of no determinate figure, tumbled together and converted into solid vitrified masses...