Ninevah and Its Ruins, Or, The History of the Great CityPartridge, Oakey, 1855 - 102 sider |
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Side 7
... Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army , thy men of war ; they hanged the shield and the helmet in thee ; they set forth thy comeliness . The men of Arvad with their army were upon thy walls round about , and the Gammadims ...
... Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army , thy men of war ; they hanged the shield and the helmet in thee ; they set forth thy comeliness . The men of Arvad with their army were upon thy walls round about , and the Gammadims ...
Side 35
... Persian Gulf , " and who gloried in his conquests as if they could wreath his brow with the diadem of life , or fill up the desires of a soul which can be satisfied with nothing short of the infinite and eternal . In the first year of ...
... Persian Gulf , " and who gloried in his conquests as if they could wreath his brow with the diadem of life , or fill up the desires of a soul which can be satisfied with nothing short of the infinite and eternal . In the first year of ...
Side 43
... Persians to the final overthrow of their empire by the Arabian conquerors . " Some of the ornaments of this tree , such as the arrangement of the intertwining branches , remind us of the network of pomegranates in Solomon's temple ...
... Persians to the final overthrow of their empire by the Arabian conquerors . " Some of the ornaments of this tree , such as the arrangement of the intertwining branches , remind us of the network of pomegranates in Solomon's temple ...
Side 58
... Persian Nineveh , not of the Assyrian ; and that the ruins of the old Nineveh had long ago been ruined and destroyed . This pleased the sceptic and the infidel . Taking advantage of the concession of the learned prelate , and of others ...
... Persian Nineveh , not of the Assyrian ; and that the ruins of the old Nineveh had long ago been ruined and destroyed . This pleased the sceptic and the infidel . Taking advantage of the concession of the learned prelate , and of others ...
Side 64
... Persian empire by Alexander the Great ; and that it is to this fact that we mainly owe the progress that has been made in deciphering the Arabian inscriptions . formed , and to be carried in the direction of 64 NINEVEH.
... Persian empire by Alexander the Great ; and that it is to this fact that we mainly owe the progress that has been made in deciphering the Arabian inscriptions . formed , and to be carried in the direction of 64 NINEVEH.
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ancient Arabs arms army arrows Asshur Assyrian Assyrian empire Babylon Bactria bas-reliefs battle beautiful Bible Botta bulls captives carried cedar chamber character chariots clothed colossal conquest Crystal Palace deity discovery divine earth emblem empire enemy eunuch Euphrates Ezekiel feet glory gourd grandeur hast hath head heaven height Hezekiah horses Hoshea hundred idolatry inhabitants inscriptions Israel Jerusalem Jonah Khorsabad king of Assyria kingdom Kouyunjik Layard Lebanon Lord luxury magnificent MAN-BULL Medes midst mighty monarch monument Mosul mound Nahum nations Nimroud Nineveh Ninus Nisroch north-west palace ornaments overthrow priests prince prophet reign religious represented rich right hand river royal ruins of Nineveh sacred tree saith Scripture sculptured seen Semiramis Sennacherib sent Shalmaneser siege slabs stand symbol Syria Tarshish temple thee thou throne thy merchandise thy merchants Tigris Tyre victory walls warriors wealth whole wickedness winged figures worship
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Side 51 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Side 57 - All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Side 49 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Side 51 - The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble ; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Side 56 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Side 55 - And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say : Nineveh is laid waste : who will bemoan her?
Side 57 - I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Side 7 - This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me.
Side 49 - And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
Side 4 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.