Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural History |
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... hand - consolidated over Asia ; and on the field of Arbela was that splendid empire in its turn overthrown by the rising power of the Macedo nian conqueror , who , after his brilliant career , returned to the capital of Assyria to end ...
... hand - consolidated over Asia ; and on the field of Arbela was that splendid empire in its turn overthrown by the rising power of the Macedo nian conqueror , who , after his brilliant career , returned to the capital of Assyria to end ...
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... hand , use it to express a distinct nation of con- querors , and the founders of an empire , having the seat of government at Nineveh , and which flourished between the years 800 and 700 B.C. * Hence , to define the limits of Assyria ...
... hand , use it to express a distinct nation of con- querors , and the founders of an empire , having the seat of government at Nineveh , and which flourished between the years 800 and 700 B.C. * Hence , to define the limits of Assyria ...
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... hand , the plains of Arbela and Nineveh , of Kirkook , Tooz Khoormattee , and Kufri , though in some places scorched , are yet occasionally very productive . In like manner , while the low country is parched with the intense heat of ...
... hand , the plains of Arbela and Nineveh , of Kirkook , Tooz Khoormattee , and Kufri , though in some places scorched , are yet occasionally very productive . In like manner , while the low country is parched with the intense heat of ...
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... miles of Bagdad , and even now fertilizes a large extent of territory , which , how- ever , is at present in the hands of the Jerbah Arabs . The following canals are still in operation , and exhibit MESOPOTAMIA AND ASSYRIA . 33.
... miles of Bagdad , and even now fertilizes a large extent of territory , which , how- ever , is at present in the hands of the Jerbah Arabs . The following canals are still in operation , and exhibit MESOPOTAMIA AND ASSYRIA . 33.
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... hand , is inclined to repose far greater confidence in the testimony of Ctesias , partly be- cause , he argues , it does not appear that the historian could have had any motive for fabricating a falsehood , and part- ly because there ...
... hand , is inclined to repose far greater confidence in the testimony of Ctesias , partly be- cause , he argues , it does not appear that the historian could have had any motive for fabricating a falsehood , and part- ly because there ...
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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...