A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians

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Charles Scribner, 1902 - 422 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 69 - That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
Pàgina 357 - Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
Pàgina 365 - ... a vast number of her customs and usages. But Babylonia herself, so far as we know, drew her stores from no foreign country. Hers was apparently the genius which excogitated an alphabet — worked out the simpler problems of arithmetic — invented implements for measuring the lapse of time — conceived the idea of raising enormous structures with the poorest of all materials, clay — discovered the art of polishing, boring, and engraving gems...
Pàgina 361 - The ascent to the top is on the outside, by a path which winds round all the towers. When one is about half-way up, one finds a resting-place and seats, where persons are wont to sit some time on their way to the summit. On the topmost tower there is a spacious temple, and inside the temple stands a couch of unusual size, richly adorned, with a golden table by its side.
Pàgina 270 - But as for Hezekiah of Judah, who had not submitted to my yoke, forty-six of his strong cities, together with...
Pàgina 171 - I planned, devised and thought out, built and completed. I made its interior brilliant like the dome of the heavens; decorated its walls, like the splendour of the rising stars, and made it grand with resplendent brilliancy. I reared its temple towers to heaven and completed its roof with burned brick; located therein the upper terrace containing the chamber of their great divinities...
Pàgina 348 - Guide him in a straight path. 1 am the prince, obedient to thee, The creature of thy hand ; Thou hast created me, and With dominion over all people Thou hast intrusted me. According to thy grace, O Lord, Which thou dost bestow on All people, Cause me to love thy supreme...
Pàgina 375 - People, whom he [Marduk] caused his [Cyrus's] hands to conquer, in justice and right he cared for them. Marduk, the great lord, guardian of his people, looked with joy on his pious works and his upright heart ; he commanded him to go to his city, Babylon, and he caused him to take the road to Babylon, going by his side as a friend and companion.
Pàgina 15 - Greek, have left no visible traces of their civilization, or of their arts : their influence has long since passed away. The more he conjectures, the more vague the results appear. The scene around is worthy of the ruin he is contemplating; desolation meets desolation : a feeling of awe succeeds to wonder ; for there is nothing to relieve the mind, to lead to hope, or to tell of what has gone by. These huge mounds of Assyria made a deeper impression upon me, gave rise to more serious thoughts, and...
Pàgina 365 - It was from the East, not from Egypt, that Greece derived her architecture, her sculpture, her science, her philosophy, her mathematical knowledge — in a word, her intellectual life.

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