Discoveries among the ruins of Nineveh and BabylonHarper & Bros., 1853 - Всего страниц: 586 |
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... principal ports ; and there is commerce and traffic enough for more . The establishment of steam communication between the ports and the capital has given an activity previously unknown to internal trade , and has brought the ...
... principal ports ; and there is commerce and traffic enough for more . The establishment of steam communication between the ports and the capital has given an activity previously unknown to internal trade , and has brought the ...
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... principal produce being corn and hemp . The villages , which are thickly scattered over it , have the ap- pearance of extreme wretchedness , and , with their low houses and heaps of dried manure piled upon the roofs and in the open ...
... principal produce being corn and hemp . The villages , which are thickly scattered over it , have the ap- pearance of extreme wretchedness , and , with their low houses and heaps of dried manure piled upon the roofs and in the open ...
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... principal inhabitants , seated on a raised platform near a well - built stone house . He assured me , stroking a beard of spotless white to confirm his words , that he was above ninety years of age , and had never seen an European ...
... principal inhabitants , seated on a raised platform near a well - built stone house . He assured me , stroking a beard of spotless white to confirm his words , that he was above ninety years of age , and had never seen an European ...
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... principal inhabitants , had come to invite me to eat bread in his house , and we followed him . As we rode along we were joined by parties of horsemen and footmen , each man kissing my hand as he arrived , the horsemen alighting for ...
... principal inhabitants , had come to invite me to eat bread in his house , and we followed him . As we rode along we were joined by parties of horsemen and footmen , each man kissing my hand as he arrived , the horsemen alighting for ...
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... principal elders took their seats with me . Soon after our arrival several Fakirs , * in their dark coarse dresses and red and black turbans , came to us from the neighbouring villages . of them wore round his neck a chain , as a sign ...
... principal elders took their seats with me . Soon after our arrival several Fakirs , * in their dark coarse dresses and red and black turbans , came to us from the neighbouring villages . of them wore round his neck a chain , as a sign ...
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Agha Akhlat amongst ancient appear Arabs Arban Armenian Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad banks bas-reliefs Bedouins beneath Bitlis bricks British Museum bronze building bulls called camels captives caravan carried castle centre Chaldæan chamber chariot chief crossed cuneiform cylinder described Desert discovered district Eastern edifice Egyptian encampment entrance Euphrates excavations feet figures fragments head Hillah hills Hincks Hormuzd horsemen horses inhabitants inscriptions Jebours journey Khabour Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds lion mare Mesopotamia miles Mohammed Emin Monuments of Nineveh Mosul mound mountains Mussulman nearly Nestorian Nimroud Nineveh north-west palace ornaments Pasha Persian plain Plate principal probably ravine Rawlinson relics remains represented river rock rode round ruins scarcely sculptures Sennacherib Shammar sheep Sheikh side Sinjar slabs stone stream Suttum tablets Tekrit temple tents Tigris tion tomb town tribe Turkish valley village walls warriors whilst workmen Yezidis
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Стр. 526 - The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
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Стр. 121 - And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea : for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Стр. 428 - And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen ; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.