Ruins of Sacred and Historic LandsThomas Nelson, 1850 - 392 páginas |
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... remains purely Syrian , or such as cannot be traced to a foreign people , only one form of character has been discovered , and it so closely resembles the cursive of Assyria , that there appears to be little doubt as to the identity of ...
... remains purely Syrian , or such as cannot be traced to a foreign people , only one form of character has been discovered , and it so closely resembles the cursive of Assyria , that there appears to be little doubt as to the identity of ...
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... remains to be done by the students both of cuneiform and hieroglyphical records , before it can be assumed that an entire mastery has been gained over these long dumb and forgotten annals of the elder world . CHAPTER II . BABYLON . With ...
... remains to be done by the students both of cuneiform and hieroglyphical records , before it can be assumed that an entire mastery has been gained over these long dumb and forgotten annals of the elder world . CHAPTER II . BABYLON . With ...
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... remains of Nineveh and Babylon our pilgrimage is incomplete . " As we journeyed thither we rested for the night at the small Arab village of Hammum Ali , around which are still the vestiges of an ancient city . From the summit of an ...
... remains of Nineveh and Babylon our pilgrimage is incomplete . " As we journeyed thither we rested for the night at the small Arab village of Hammum Ali , around which are still the vestiges of an ancient city . From the summit of an ...
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... Remains , " was published , several very valuable additional sculptures and inscribed slabs have been brought to this country , and presented by him to Sir John Guest , whose seat , Canford Manor , they now adorn in a manner , the ...
... Remains , " was published , several very valuable additional sculptures and inscribed slabs have been brought to this country , and presented by him to Sir John Guest , whose seat , Canford Manor , they now adorn in a manner , the ...
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... fail to be kept alive by the activity with which the explorers of its ancient remains , both at home and abroad , are pursuing their researches . While Dr. Layard is labouring , amid his wild Arab hords THE RECORDS OF ASSYRIA . 67.
... fail to be kept alive by the activity with which the explorers of its ancient remains , both at home and abroad , are pursuing their researches . While Dr. Layard is labouring , amid his wild Arab hords THE RECORDS OF ASSYRIA . 67.
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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.