Ninevah and Its Ruins, Or, The History of the Great CityPartridge, Oakey, 1855 - 102 sider |
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... 51 The Overthrow and the Ruin of the Great City CHAPTER VI . Remarkable Discovery of the Ruins of the Ancient Nineveh 61 CHAPTER VII . The Assyrian Court in the Crystal Palace , Sydenham 91 NINEVEH AND ITS RUINS . In a very old book.
... 51 The Overthrow and the Ruin of the Great City CHAPTER VI . Remarkable Discovery of the Ruins of the Ancient Nineveh 61 CHAPTER VII . The Assyrian Court in the Crystal Palace , Sydenham 91 NINEVEH AND ITS RUINS . In a very old book.
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... ancient world was found in Babylon . This consisted of its hanging gardens . These gardens took in a square of sixteen hundred feet - four hundred on every side - and looked like so many beautiful terraces , rising the one above the ...
... ancient world was found in Babylon . This consisted of its hanging gardens . These gardens took in a square of sixteen hundred feet - four hundred on every side - and looked like so many beautiful terraces , rising the one above the ...
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... ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers : all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise . They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army , thy men of war ; they ...
... ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers : all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise . They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army , thy men of war ; they ...
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... ancient city , informs us that Tyre has indeed become like the top of a rock . The sole tokens of her more ancient splendour - columns of red and gray granite , sometimes forty or fifty of them heaped together , or it might be pillars ...
... ancient city , informs us that Tyre has indeed become like the top of a rock . The sole tokens of her more ancient splendour - columns of red and gray granite , sometimes forty or fifty of them heaped together , or it might be pillars ...
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... ancient Assyria ; " while by the discoveries of himself and others , the intention of those who founded that great empire " will be amply fulfilled , and the records of their might will be more widely spread , and more effectually ...
... ancient Assyria ; " while by the discoveries of himself and others , the intention of those who founded that great empire " will be amply fulfilled , and the records of their might will be more widely spread , and more effectually ...
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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.