Explorations in Bible Lands During the 19th Century

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A.J. Holman, 1903 - 809 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 5 - The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof. Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.
Pàgina 99 - Hasten, O Bey," exclaimed one of them — " hasten to the diggers, for they have found Nimrod himself. Wallah, it is wonderful, but it is true ! we have seen him with our eyes. There is no God but God ;" and both joining in this pious exclamation, they galloped oft', without further words, in the direction of their tents.
Pàgina 121 - To the height of a foot or more from the floor they were entirely filled with them ; some entire, but the greater part broken into many fragments, probably by the falling in of the upper part of the building. They were of different sizes ; the largest tablets were flat, and measured...
Pàgina 554 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Pàgina 29 - SE or highest angle, one hundred and forty-one feet. The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting, on account of the appearance of building it presents. Near the summit of it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built of unburnt bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and cemented with...
Pàgina 4 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Pàgina 31 - The morning was at first stormy, and threatened a severe fall of rain ; but as we approached the object of our journey, the heavy clouds separating, discovered the Birs frowning over the plain, and presenting the appearance of a circular hill crowned by a tower, with a high ridge extending along the foot of it.
Pàgina 29 - I was satisfied of its being in reality a Babylonian remain. It consists of several walls and piers (which face the cardinal points) eight feet in thickness, in some places ornamented with niches, and in others strengthened by pilasters and buttresses, built of fine burnt brick...
Pàgina 16 - CHESNEY— THE EXPEDITION FOR THE SURVEY OF THE RIVERS EUPHRATES and TIGRIS, carried on by order of the British Government, in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837.
Pàgina 99 - This gigantic head, blanched with age, thus rising from the bowels of the earth, might well have belonged to one of those fearful beings which are pictured in the traditions of the country, as appearing to mortals, slowly ascending from the regions below. One of the workmen, on catching the first glimpse of the monster, had thrown down his basket and run off towards Mosul as fast as his legs could carry him.

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