Ruins of Sacred and Historic LandsThomas Nelson, 1850 - 392 páginas |
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... less the aim of the author , that it should also instruct the reader of its pages . The indications of prophetic warning , and the evi- dences of remarkable fulfilment , have been carefully traced out , and applied to these ...
... less the aim of the author , that it should also instruct the reader of its pages . The indications of prophetic warning , and the evi- dences of remarkable fulfilment , have been carefully traced out , and applied to these ...
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... less strong and beneficial ties . The impression , however , which we are taught to form of the first mighty one on the earth , the powerful hunter , and the earliest sovereign among men , is not one very favourable to him as a ...
... less strong and beneficial ties . The impression , however , which we are taught to form of the first mighty one on the earth , the powerful hunter , and the earliest sovereign among men , is not one very favourable to him as a ...
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... narrative based on the chronological data supplied by the hierogliphics and tabular series of royal cartouches , also furnish no less interesting allusions to contemporary nations . Here therefore is one BABYLON . 35.
... narrative based on the chronological data supplied by the hierogliphics and tabular series of royal cartouches , also furnish no less interesting allusions to contemporary nations . Here therefore is one BABYLON . 35.
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... less favoured climes can hardly conceive of . Wealth abounded , luxury and sensual enjoyments were pursued as objects worthy of the highest ambition of man . Gold , silver , precious jewels , spices , silks , and every costly means of ...
... less favoured climes can hardly conceive of . Wealth abounded , luxury and sensual enjoyments were pursued as objects worthy of the highest ambition of man . Gold , silver , precious jewels , spices , silks , and every costly means of ...
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... less cer- tainly in the promises to their fathers , than in the threats and denouncements to their captors , and anticipated with longing hearts , the time when God would remember Zion , and build up her ruined walls . It seems not ...
... less cer- tainly in the promises to their fathers , than in the threats and denouncements to their captors , and anticipated with longing hearts , the time when God would remember Zion , and build up her ruined walls . It seems not ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adjunta ages amid ancient antiquities appear Asiatic Assyrian Babylon Babylonian beautiful believed bricks builders building buried caves centuries character Cholula Christian civilization continent creed cuneiform curious deity desolate discovered discovery divine dynasty early earth Edom Egyp Egypt Egyptian Egyptian mythology Ellora empire evidence excavations feet furnish Greek hand Herculaneum hieroglyphic historian human hundred Idumea Indians inscriptions interesting investigations Jerusalem Khorsabad king labour land Layard magnificence Major Rawlinson Manetho marble ments Mexico modern monarchs monuments mound nations native Nile Nimroud Nineveh numerous origin ornaments Osiris palaces peculiar period plain Pompeii pottery priests probably pyramid of Cholula pyramids race records reign relics remains remarkable Roman Rome Rosetta Stone Royal Asiatic Society ruins sacred Samian ware scene sculptures seems Shinar singular stone strange symbol temple thou Tinted Engravings tion tombs traces tumuli Typhon Uxmal vast walls whole worship Yucatan
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Página 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 113 - Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Página 10 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Página 101 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth : for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth...
Página 55 - 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...
Página 58 - So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Página 45 - BELSHAZZAR the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Página 13 - 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.
Página 364 - And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David) ; to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
Página 40 - The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.