Discoveries Among the Ruins of Ninevah and BabylonHarper, 1856 - 586 pàgines |
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Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon: With Travels in Armenia ... Austen Henry Layard Previsualització no disponible - 2014 |
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Agha Akhlat amongst ancient Aneyza appear Arabs Arban Armenian Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad banks bas-reliefs Bedouins beneath Bitlis bricks British Museum Bronze bulls called camels captives caravan carried castle Cawal Yusuf centre Chaldæan chamber chariot chief Christian crossed deloul described Desert discovered district Eastern edifice Egyptian encampment entrance Euphrates excavations feet figures fragments head hills Hincks Hormuzd Hormuzd Rassam horsemen horses inhabitants inscriptions Jebours journey Khabour Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lion mare Mesopotamia miles Mohammed Emin Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulman Nestorian Nimroud Nineveh ornaments palace parasangs Pasha passed Persian plain Plate principal probably ravine Rawlinson remains river rock rode round ruins scarcely sculptures Sennacherib Shammar sheep Sheikh side Sinjar slabs stone stream Suttum Tekrit temple tents Tigris tomb town tribe Turkish valley village walls warriors whilst workmen Xenophon Yezidis
Passatges populars
Pàgina 565 - The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Although I have passed all my days in this place, I have neither counted the houses nor inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine. But, above all, as to the previous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusion that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were...
Pàgina 295 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord ; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold : only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Pàgina 118 - Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and shewed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.
Pàgina 548 - The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
Pàgina 486 - Regardless of the merit of art, and the pomp of royalty, the rigid Omar divided the prize among his brethren of Medina. The picture was destroyed, but such was the intrinsic value of the materials that the share of Ali alone was sold for twenty thousand drachms.
Pàgina 133 - And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea : for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Pàgina 97 - Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: 19. That say, Let Him make speed, and hasten His work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!
Pàgina 181 - Peschito was written either at the end of the first, or at the beginning of the second century, it is of less importance to know the readings of the Greek manuscript that was used in the former, than those of the original employed in the latter.
Pàgina 450 - And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen ; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
Pàgina 565 - Thou earnest unto us, and we welcomed thee : go in peace. " Of a truth, thou hast spoken many words ; and there is no harm done, for the speaker is one and the listener is another. After the fashion of thy people thou hast wandered from one place to another until thou art happy and content in none.