Ninevah and Its Ruins, Or, The History of the Great CityPartridge, Oakey, 1855 - 102 sider |
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Side 28
... religion , to embody the conception of the wisdom , power , and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They WINGED BULL . could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength , than the body of the lion ...
... religion , to embody the conception of the wisdom , power , and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They WINGED BULL . could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength , than the body of the lion ...
Side 40
... religious ceremony , or the king engaged in the hunt , or in the act of receiving his courtiers , or perhaps surveying the captives who had been taken in the field of battle . Figures of every description meet the eye - priests ...
... religious ceremony , or the king engaged in the hunt , or in the act of receiving his courtiers , or perhaps surveying the captives who had been taken in the field of battle . Figures of every description meet the eye - priests ...
Side 43
... religious rites , was the SACRED TREE , or tree of life , " so universally adored at the remotest periods in the East , and which was preserved in the religious systems of the Persians to the final overthrow of their empire by the ...
... religious rites , was the SACRED TREE , or tree of life , " so universally adored at the remotest periods in the East , and which was preserved in the religious systems of the Persians to the final overthrow of their empire by the ...
Side 45
... religious ideas from the very earliest times , and to have been embodied in every religious system . In this way they sought to account for that power of evil in man as it shows itself in his evil passions , in his many infirmities of ...
... religious ideas from the very earliest times , and to have been embodied in every religious system . In this way they sought to account for that power of evil in man as it shows itself in his evil passions , in his many infirmities of ...
Side 46
... religious rites , he has figures of the sun , moon , and stars hung round his neck . The same symbols are constantly ... religion will rather degrade and sink him in the scale of being , than lift him up and ennoble his whole nature ...
... religious rites , he has figures of the sun , moon , and stars hung round his neck . The same symbols are constantly ... religion will rather degrade and sink him in the scale of being , than lift him up and ennoble his whole nature ...
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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.