Mesopotamia and Assyria: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; with Illustrations of Their Natural History |
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... stones and gems , appears not only from the uses they made of these substances in their palaces , tem- ples , and houses , but from the fragments which are , even at this remote period , occasionally found among the ruins of Babylon and ...
... stones and gems , appears not only from the uses they made of these substances in their palaces , tem- ples , and houses , but from the fragments which are , even at this remote period , occasionally found among the ruins of Babylon and ...
Page 93
... stones , pearls , gum - lac for dye , robes , gold and gold - dust , and Indian dogs , which last were greatly in demand all over Central Asia . One of the satraps of Babylon is said to have devoted the revenue of four towns to their ...
... stones , pearls , gum - lac for dye , robes , gold and gold - dust , and Indian dogs , which last were greatly in demand all over Central Asia . One of the satraps of Babylon is said to have devoted the revenue of four towns to their ...
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... stones ; Cabul , onyxes and sardines ; Khorasan , turquoises ; and , though not men- tioned particularly by any author , there is no doubt that the various commodities which form the lading of cara- vans at this day were then equally ...
... stones ; Cabul , onyxes and sardines ; Khorasan , turquoises ; and , though not men- tioned particularly by any author , there is no doubt that the various commodities which form the lading of cara- vans at this day were then equally ...
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... stones , and slime or bitumen for mortar . But in no part of Upper Mesopotamia could there have been occasion for such expedients , the two last - named ma- terials being far less abundant than stone and mortar ; whereas , in the ...
... stones , and slime or bitumen for mortar . But in no part of Upper Mesopotamia could there have been occasion for such expedients , the two last - named ma- terials being far less abundant than stone and mortar ; whereas , in the ...
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... stones , each sixteen feet long by four broad , over which two courses of brick , cemented together with plaster , were laid in a bed of bitu- men ; over these were spread thick sheets of lead ; and on this solid terrace was placed ...
... stones , each sixteen feet long by four broad , over which two courses of brick , cemented together with plaster , were laid in a bed of bitu- men ; over these were spread thick sheets of lead ; and on this solid terrace was placed ...
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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...