Nineveh: its rise and ruin, a course of lectures1850 |
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... hand of time into ruins , approaching in their appearance to those of art . " a " These colossal piles , " says another tra- veller , " are found domineering over the dreary waste , to the uniformity of which they offer a striking ...
... hand of time into ruins , approaching in their appearance to those of art . " a " These colossal piles , " says another tra- veller , " are found domineering over the dreary waste , to the uniformity of which they offer a striking ...
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... hand of his brother . He wrote a large work on the history of Persia , in twenty - three books , compiled from the royal records , and which , on his return to Greece , he published with great applause . This memorial of the past has ...
... hand of his brother . He wrote a large work on the history of Persia , in twenty - three books , compiled from the royal records , and which , on his return to Greece , he published with great applause . This memorial of the past has ...
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... hand in abun- dance , and when moistened with water and mixed with a little sand , chopped straw , or broken reeds , became very tenacious and firmly bound together . These they wrought into tiles or bricks , on which was usually ...
... hand in abun- dance , and when moistened with water and mixed with a little sand , chopped straw , or broken reeds , became very tenacious and firmly bound together . These they wrought into tiles or bricks , on which was usually ...
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... hand of Divine Providence entomb the proud me- morials of this magnificent and mighty city , so that the very name of Nineveh was threatened with the same oblivion that had overthrown its greatness . " The cormorant and the bittern pos ...
... hand of Divine Providence entomb the proud me- morials of this magnificent and mighty city , so that the very name of Nineveh was threatened with the same oblivion that had overthrown its greatness . " The cormorant and the bittern pos ...
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... hands and lips which traced and uttered them . Learned inquiries have , however , commenced , which seem destined to decypher them , and to explain some of the most perplexed pages of ancient history . Of the issue we have no fears ...
... hands and lips which traced and uttered them . Learned inquiries have , however , commenced , which seem destined to decypher them , and to explain some of the most perplexed pages of ancient history . Of the issue we have no fears ...
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amongst ancient angels antiquity appear Assarac Asshur Assyrian army Assyrian monarchy Babylon Babylonian Book of Chronicles brought called captivity Chaldæan chap chariots cherubim Chushan-rishathaim conquest Ctesias desolation discoveries Divine earth east Egypt Egyptians empire Euphrates Ezekiel fact faithful father figures forms glory gods Greek hand heart heathen heaven Hebrew Hezekiah honour idolatry idols illustrated inhabitants inscriptions inspired Isaiah Israel Israelites Jehovah Jeroboam Jerusalem Jewish Jews Jonah Judah king of Assyria kingdom kingdom of Judah land Layard learned lecture lion Lord Major Rawlinson Medes Mesopotamia mighty Moses Mosul mountains Nahum nations Nestorians Nimrod Nineveh Ninus Nisroch observed overthrow palace Palestine Pekah Persian plain princes prophet proud records reign repentance river ruins sacred Samaria says sculptures seems seen Sennacherib solemn spirit symbols Syria temple thee thou throne Tigris tion tribes truth unto walls whilst wickedness wings word worship
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Página 183 - WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Página 180 - O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Take with you words, and turn to the Lord : say unto him, "Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
Página 129 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 106 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Página 134 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay wither'd and strown.
Página 135 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord...
Página 16 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. 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 39 - And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers : and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
Página 117 - Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Página 147 - Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David : and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.