Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, Or Devil-worshippers, and an Inquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient AssyriansPutnam, 1854 - Всего страниц: 326 |
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Agha alabaster Amadiyah amongst ancient animals appears Arabs Armenia Asia Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Baghdad bas-reliefs British Museum brought building built carried castle centre Chaldæans chamber character chariot chief Christian colors conjecture cuneiform desert Diodorus Siculus discovered dynasty early edifice Egypt Egyptian encampment entrance eunuch Euphrates evidently excavations feet formed fragments frequently gold Greek hand head Herodotus horsemen horses inhabitants inscriptions Khorsabad king Kouyunjik Kurdish Kurds lion lower ments Mesopotamia monuments Mosul mound mountains Nestorian Nimroud Nineveh Ninus northwest palace ornaments palace of Nimroud Pasha period Persian plain priests principal probably remains represented resembling river round rubbish ruins sacred scarcely sculptures Semiramis Shammar Sheikh Nasr side similar Sinjar slabs Sofuk stone syrian tablet tents Tigris tion Tiyari Tkhoma tomb traces trees trenches tribe Unsculptured upper valley vases village walls warriors whilst winged bulls winged figures women workmen Yezidis
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Стр. 146 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Стр. 219 - And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end.
Стр. 135 - The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Стр. 76 - Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Стр. 76 - I used to contemplate for hours these mysterious emblems, and muse over their intent and history. What more noble forms could have ushered the people into the temple of their gods ? What more sublime images could have been borrowed from nature, by men who sought, unaided by the light of revealed religion, to embody their conception of the wisdom, power, and ubiquity of a Supreme Being ? They could find no better type of intellect and knowledge than the head of the man ; of strength, than the body...
Стр. 285 - Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard ; publish, and conceal not: say, "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces ; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Стр. 280 - And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it ; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
Стр. 72 - They had uncovered the upper part of a figure, the remainder of which was still buried in the earth. I saw at once that the head must belong to a winged lion or bull, similar to those of Khorsabad and Persepolis. It was in admirable preservation.
Стр. 79 - I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so folldwing, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
Стр. 73 - I was superintending the removal of the earth, which still clung to the sculpture, and giving directions for the continuation of the work, a noise of horsemen was heard, and presently Abdur-rahman, followed by half his tribe, appeared on the edge of the trench. As soon as the two Arabs had reached the tents, and published the wonders they had seen, every one mounted his mare and rode to the mound, to satisfy himself of the truth of these inconceivable reports. When they beheld the head they all cried...