Nineveh and Persepolis: An Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia, with an Account of Recent Researches in Those CountriesArthur Hall, Virtue, 1851 - 494 من الصفحات |
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... Tigris , has been so often told , that there would seem to be little need of a new history . In the early days of our childhood , tales from Eastern sources , and anecdotes from the lives of the Oriental rulers , were our never ...
... Tigris , has been so often told , that there would seem to be little need of a new history . In the early days of our childhood , tales from Eastern sources , and anecdotes from the lives of the Oriental rulers , were our never ...
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... Tigris , of which Babylon and Nineveh were the two best known cities , must , from its greater antiquity , be described first . We find the earliest notice of it in Gen. x . 8—12 , where , in speaking of the genealogy of the sons of Ham ...
... Tigris , of which Babylon and Nineveh were the two best known cities , must , from its greater antiquity , be described first . We find the earliest notice of it in Gen. x . 8—12 , where , in speaking of the genealogy of the sons of Ham ...
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... Tigris was divided between the Assyrians of Nineveh and the inhabitants of Babylon , and that each city was in its turn dominant or subject according to the valour or weak- ness of its princes . With the solitary exception of the ...
... Tigris was divided between the Assyrians of Nineveh and the inhabitants of Babylon , and that each city was in its turn dominant or subject according to the valour or weak- ness of its princes . With the solitary exception of the ...
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... Tigris . While , on the other hand , it is remarkable that , in a fragment of Nicolaus Damascenus , who has preserved a portion of Ctesias , Nineveh appears again in its natural place on the Tigris ( vide C. O. Müller , Fragm . Hist ...
... Tigris . While , on the other hand , it is remarkable that , in a fragment of Nicolaus Damascenus , who has preserved a portion of Ctesias , Nineveh appears again in its natural place on the Tigris ( vide C. O. Müller , Fragm . Hist ...
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... Assyria border on Cilicia . Ptolemy and the Roman historians limit it to the countries east * Herod . , vii . 63 . Arrian , ii . 5 , 6 . of the Tigris , and make the M. Niphates divide 16 [ CHAP . II . NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS .
... Assyria border on Cilicia . Ptolemy and the Roman historians limit it to the countries east * Herod . , vii . 63 . Arrian , ii . 5 , 6 . of the Tigris , and make the M. Niphates divide 16 [ CHAP . II . NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS .
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الصفحة 29 - Therefore is the name of it called Babel ; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth : and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
الصفحة 37 - And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: And they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; City against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
الصفحة 291 - Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
الصفحة 77 - Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
الصفحة 75 - Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled : yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it...
الصفحة 29 - And they said : Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
الصفحة 77 - 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 125 - 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 84 - 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 282 - Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity...