Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of the Recent Researches in Those CountriesHall, Virtue & Company, 1855 - 542 من الصفحات |
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... Romans and the East- Popillius in Africa - Acilius Glabrio in Ætolia - Rise of the Parthian Empire - The Parthians the greatest opponents Rome ever had - Rise of the Sassanians - Ardashír I. — Shahpúr I. - Khosrú Parvíz -- Con- quest of ...
... Romans and the East- Popillius in Africa - Acilius Glabrio in Ætolia - Rise of the Parthian Empire - The Parthians the greatest opponents Rome ever had - Rise of the Sassanians - Ardashír I. — Shahpúr I. - Khosrú Parvíz -- Con- quest of ...
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... Roman authors ; and , 2ndly . The results of those modern inquiries which have been carried on for nearly three centuries by European travellers . In the first part , a sketch will be given of the course of those empires from the ...
... Roman authors ; and , 2ndly . The results of those modern inquiries which have been carried on for nearly three centuries by European travellers . In the first part , a sketch will be given of the course of those empires from the ...
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... Roman authors , by the Syrians , Sabæans , and Arabs , as the particular designation of the territory between the Tigris and the Kerkhah , where the seat of empire was originally placed . It will also be remembered that Nebuchadnezzar ...
... Roman authors , by the Syrians , Sabæans , and Arabs , as the particular designation of the territory between the Tigris and the Kerkhah , where the seat of empire was originally placed . It will also be remembered that Nebuchadnezzar ...
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... Romans give no account of Nineveh , which can be considered satisfactory , and so great a variety exists between the different reports which have been handed down to that it is not easy to deduce from them any one consistent account ...
... Romans give no account of Nineveh , which can be considered satisfactory , and so great a variety exists between the different reports which have been handed down to that it is not easy to deduce from them any one consistent account ...
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... Romans used it as a general designation for the district including Babylonia , Mesopotamia , and Adiabene , and even ... Roman historians limit it to the countries east of the Tigris , and make M. Niphates divide it from Armenia , and M ...
... Romans used it as a general designation for the district including Babylonia , Mesopotamia , and Adiabene , and even ... Roman historians limit it to the countries east of the Tigris , and make M. Niphates divide it from Armenia , and M ...
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Achæmenian ancient appears Arabs Armenia army Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian bas-relief Behistán Botta bricks building bull called capital celebrated Chaldæans chamber character chariot Colonel Rawlinson conqueror conquest Ctesias Cuneiform Cuneiform inscriptions curious Cyaxares Cyrus Dareius Deioces described discovery doubt dynasty early East Ecbatana edifice Egypt empire Euphrates excavations face feet figures fragments Greek Gustasp Hamadán hand head Herodotus horses Istakhr Khorsabád Khosrú king Koyunjik labours Layard length lion Loftus Medes Median mentioned monarch monuments Mosul mound mountains Muhammedan Nebuchadnezzar Nimrúd Nineveh Nisroch original Ormazd ornaments palace period Persepolis Persian plain portion preserved princes probably provinces reign remains remarkable represented resembling river rock Roman round royal ruins Sassanian says sculptures Semiramis Sennacherib Shíráz side Sir R. K. Porter slab stone Syria tablets temple throne Tigris Tímúr tion tomb travellers tribes visited walls Warka warriors whole winged Xenophon Xerxes Zoroaster
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الصفحة 6 - He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
الصفحة 112 - And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.
الصفحة 368 - As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion, on the right side : and they four had the face of an ox on the left side ; they four also had the face of an eagle.
الصفحة 109 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all : and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
الصفحة 71 - And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.
الصفحة 137 - I was advised by a sage to humble myself before God; to distrust my own strength; and never to despise the most contemptible foe. I have neglected these lessons ; and my neglect has been deservedly punished. Yesterday, as from an eminence I beheld the numbers, the discipline, and the spirit, of my armies, the earth seemed to tremble under my feet; and I said in my heart, surely thou art the king of the world, the greatest and most invincible of warriors. These armies are no longer mine; and in the...
الصفحة 32 - So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
الصفحة 32 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
الصفحة 78 - In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; in the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
الصفحة 70 - Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.